At MWC 2013 , we were lucky to sit down with Marc Dillon, CEO of Jolla which is a mobile start-up based in Finland. While Jolla might be new to mobile scene, most of the team previously worked with Nokia for several years before stepping out to start Jolla.If you were a fan of the Nokia N9 or any of the Maemo or MeeGo devices , you will surely appreciate the approach Jolla’s Sailfish OS brings to the mobile arena.
Watch a nice 6 minute overview of the Sailfish OS presented by none other than the CEO Marc himself on a Nokia N950 developer device.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co_4Lp2qlDo
The Sailfish OS is based on Meego which was abandoned by Nokia as it switched to Windows Phone. Jolla aims to change the way consumers interact with a mobile device with the Sailfish UI and aims to keep the OS completely open.
The company is on track to ship a device later this year.Developers who are interested in this platform can download the SDK to test their apps.