Sailfish: Another alernative

      Bored from android? Here is coming alternative for you. Finnish company Jolla, established by Ex-nokia employees developed a new OS called sailfish. Sailfish owns a fresh, different UI and many new features. The best thing is that it can run android applications along with its own apps. Jolla announced its 1^st smartphone on 20^th May, 2013.

Sailfish Overview:

·        Linux-based, open source

·        Mer software distributor

·        Wayland display server protocol

·        Qt framework for application development and GUI

·        QML design language

·        Custom built UI

·        Support for android apps as third party solution

Sailfish Homescreen

     Mer is the inherited from the well-known  MeeGo^TM, used in Nokia N800 and N810. Mer is the part of operating system below GUI and above kernel, made for graphics, software management, multimedia, communications and Personal Information Management.

    QML (Qt Meta Language) is the Javascript based language for designing UI applications. QML is a part of Qt. Sailfish SDK can run on MAC, Linux or Windows. Developed apps are to be submitted on Jolla Harbour
(Jolla Store).

       Jolla Ltd. Introduced Sailfish smartphone having pretty Finnish design and usual specifications. The innovative about this device is its cover, the “Other half”. Its replacable back cover can contain built-in software or/and hardware which would change UI if you change it.The image below is the proposed design.