Sailfish OS will be available for Android users

Sailfish OS is an OS which is created by a company called Jolla and the surprising fact is that it consists of Ex- Nokia Employees who created the program by following the Nokia Bridge program. The Nokia Bridge program is an incubator program which helps departing employees to start their own start up business and it funds about €150,000($185,000) to them which should lead a helping hand. This program also allows the employees to be up-to-date about the latest happenings in the Finnish Mobile company.

Sailfish is one of a kind truly Open source OS which was in development for a very long time. The MeeGo OS was a one of a kind approach by Nokia and Intel to counter Android and as Intel went away with Samsung to do the same as Tizen, it lead to MeeGo project being abandoned and only one phone was released- Nokia N9. The N9 is a truly gesture based phone and doesn’t have any hardware buttons except for the volume rockers and the power button. I am really trying to get my hands on one because I very much love the design and the hardware. The Sailfish OS is a continuation of the Utopian dream of MeeGo. The OS will be available for Android users to install on their existing devices but only talks are going on. The CEO Tomi Pienimäki states the following:

"That is the plan. We are on device business and OS business. It is fairly easy to install the OS on Android devices"

”There is no such culture in these parts of the world [Finland], but there are people that are installing new operating systems on their devices. In China it is mainstream. About half of the smartphone buyers are upgrading their older or cheaper devices with a better version of Android.”

“For us it is a possibility to distribute our operating system especially in China. There are websites that already distribute [OS] software and the Chinese customers are doing it ¬so we don’t have to teach them. We just have to get Sailfish to those websites – and to make sure that Sailfish will run on different kind of Android devices"

It looks like the Chinese market will get the installation first seeing the large number of websites available for the OS distribution apart from the Finnish people who will get the OS very much beforehand than China and the other countries. The OS will have its application ported from Android from the Native Yandex store. This measure allows people to try a different OS on their relatively older handsets without spending a dime to get a new handset. This maybe some marketing techniques for Jolla but it sure will be a welcome change for those users whose Android handsets have been stuck at an old version of Android. But if the action is reversible or not is no known at the moment. That is, if you want to install Android again.