Jolla announced that upcoming Sony Xperia A2 will be fully compatible with Sailfish 3, and announced support for a couple of other devices such as the Gemini smartphone from Planet Computers and two tablets from Inoi aimed at the Russian market. The user interface can be controlled completely with hardware buttons instead of touchscreen gestures.

Remarkably, Jolla states that Sailfish 3 will also run well on cheaper phones without a touch display or ‘featurephones’. 4G, voice over LTE, integrated fingerprint scanners and VPN’s are now compatible with the OS as well. Aside from native applications and a custom app store, selected Android applications will also be compatible with certain Sailfish 3 devices. Jolla has announced that they’re working on version 3.0 of the operating system which should release in the third quarter of 2018.Īccording to the company, Sailfish 3 will be significantly faster than previous versions with performance improvements of up to 30 percent. The first phone with Sailfish OS launched in 2013. Sailfish OS is a mobile operating system produced by the Finnish company Jolla and is known as a spiritual successor of Nokia’s MeeGo platform.