[Sony Xperia ZL] keenofhiphop:
Hello Guys,

in the last time I read a lot about the Sailfish OS developed by Jolla and running on the Jolla Phone and a few other devices including the Nokia N9 and the Galaxy Nexus.

Jolla said that it wants to publish its OS for android smartphones and I decided to open this thread to inform you about Sailfish and discuss it, so we can maybe build up an userbase and so become a part in the Sailfish development for android devices as soon as Jolla publishes its sources.

Jolla wrote that it shall be easy to install Sailfish on every android handset. I have no clue how that will work out and what effort one has to take to actually run it, but it seems as if Jolla wants the users to have it the easiest way possible.

What is Sailfish OS?

It is an OS based on Meego and so in linux, just like android. But there are a lot of differences as well:

The navigation in Sailfish works via gestures, swipe inside the app to the left to go back, down to get into settings, from the left edge to get to the homescreen and more.

The homescreen consists of an overview about open apps in tiles, which are partly interactive.

The system itself is very open to developers and runs even android apps with help of the so called "Alien Dalvik" VM.

Another striking point is, that, other than most if the other OS, it does not force you to have unnecessary apps installed, even the android app support is a module you can download in the market and doesn't use your resources if you don't want it.

The administrative rights (~root) are easy to gain.

I link you a video here that shows you the newest update on the Jolla phone, the new version is considered stable.

The battery of the Jolla phone has 2100 mah and lasts with this update about three days with moderate use. While he does not explain "moderat use" closer, a user said he used whatsapp a lot and so, while I get only one day with moderate use (whatsapp and e-mail), out is likely that the battery time would only improve.

Of course this cannot be guaranteed, but I would like to read your thoughts about it.

what do you think about Sailfish?

Especially concerning the fact that our beloved Xperia ZL is generally less supported than Xperia Z thanks to Sony not making the effort to advertise it as XZ :/

Greetings

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Update:

here a member of the xda Community pasted a mail concerning the development state of Sailfish on the nexus 4.

It's as well mentioned, a tool called something like "Hardware adaption" which will work with every cm10 Rom and apparently turn the (Sailfish) Rom into a device specific Rom with the drivers used in cm10.

In my eyes it's very likely that this is also the method Jolla may apply when releasing Sailfish for Android.

What do you think?

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update 2:

Nice overview about gestures here

Great review with high detail here to find

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update 3:

So Guys, apparently the Alien dalvik (to run android apps on Sailfish) may not be available on Android hardware due to licensing issues.

Still interested?

Personally I was not planning to use the Alien Dalvik anyways, but for many users this may be essential

What do you think?