Not necessarily sharks, though you will definitely see them, but a lot of sailfish and marlin.
So, Jolla developed a new user interface, rolled it up and called the whole thing Sailfish.
And finally there is Jolla, and the new Finnish post-MeeGo OS Sailfish.
ST-Ericsson is making the processors for Sailfish phones, and Jolla tapped into its network to find a local handsetmaker.
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The first was Sailfish from Jolla, effectively an evolution of MeeGo running (at least currently) on Nokia developer hardware.
There should be a significant number of third party applications that will run on any Sailfish handset out of the box.
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Sailfish is a revamped version of the software platform MeeGo, which Nokia dropped in 2011 before laying off Dillon and his team.
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Both Sailfish and Ubuntu have one major problem: no support from manufacturers.
Jolla's heavily teased launch day in Finland has already spilled some major news: pricing and specs for the first Sailfish OS handset.
Sailfish on Fraser has large and comfortable self-contained two-bedroom apartments while Fraser Island Retreat has basic beds and amenities in simple timber cabins.
Jolla, the Finnish start-up with a significant number of former Nokia employees, is behind the Sailfish OS, which is expected to launch on hardware during 2013.
The restaurant began as an experiment in serving less-popular species of seafood, such as marlin, sailfish and shark, which were the by-catch of tuna fishing boats.
So our multitasking interface does these kinds of things, and the ability to create these all with the ambience that we have on the Sailfish operating systems.
ENGADGET: The Engadget Interview: Jolla CEO Marc Dillon at MWC 2013
We also discussed the time frame for Jolla handsets (still on track for H2 2013) and what the Sailfish SDK brings to the table for developers today.
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Their Sailfish OS is still under development, but has an Android Compatibility Layer that should answer one of the concerns of a new platform, but it still ties them to Google.
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In fact, Firefox OS is one of a handful of other web-based mobile platforms launching this year, including Tizen from Samsung and Intel, Sailfish from Jolla and Ubuntu from Canonical (in 2014).
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Another entrant, Jolla, says its 'Sailfish' platform is a second-generation operating system like BlackBerry's BB10 and is easy to use because it has a gesture-based user interface and is designed to avoid patent litigation.
Still, that has not deterred other vendors from experimenting, or at least considering the open-source operating system, as multiple reports of Firefox, Sailfish, and Tizen plan to release new Linux-based experiences in the future.
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Jolla, for instance, is going straight for China with its Sailfish OS, and Mozilla is initially introducing Firefox OS in Brazil via a partnership with Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica, along with other emerging markets.
The Qt framework makes it really easy to create powerful applications, or to take an application you have for a different platform and be able to port it with a UI that has the features of Sailfish.
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Jolla launched its Sailfish SDK at MWC 2013 and we got the chance to chat with CEO Marc Dillon about the company's history and find out how things have been coming along with Sailfish OS since our hands-on late last year.
ENGADGET: The Engadget Interview: Jolla CEO Marc Dillon at MWC 2013
Perhaps more usefully, the Sailfish operating system will also be Android app compliant out of the box, and we're currently on the ground in Helsinki trying to discover exactly how developers and users will be able to put that feature to work (while also chasing down the rest of the specs).
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