Too much of the same UI throughout gets boring and changing Ambiances for a rescue does little help. That’s what I saw the OS as but gradually as I use it more, it feels a bit overdone. Translucent UI looks great right? Beauty. Blur effects and transparency details take the first priority in the whole of the OS and the apps. The user interface as aforementioned is unlike what Android or iOS offer. The issues I discuss here might not apply on other devices and wherever I talk about performance I’m comparing it with performance on Android N on the same device. This is all done on a community port and not on any officially supported device. Home, back, tasks, app settings are all just a swipe away. For example, in any app a left to right edge swipe would take you to the home screen but left to right (not edges) swipe would take you to the previous page in the app itself. Normal swipes and edge swipes are different in Sailfish OS. The in-app menu is accessed by pulling up/down from the middle of the screen and a selector highlights the menu options as you pull just leave it P.S. A swipe from the top edge anywhere reveals the Ambience switcher and lock-screen button. All your notifications and quick setting tiles are present there. The notifications (or events) panel comes with a right/left swipe on the home screen. This also helps for peeking as talked about in the previous section. A right/left edge swipe in any app takes you to home screen. The app drawer is accessible from everywhere with a swipe from the bottom edge (Even when you are in any app). To an extent where once gotten used to, you’d crave for the same everywhere. Speaking of swipes lets talk gestures as this is one OS which heavily uses gesture-based navigation. Heck, you just need a swipe! The Gestures Yep, that means you can have different ringtones set with different ambiances and change them as per your mood without actually having to go to settings. They are profiles, so silence Ambience puts its wallpaper, color and silences the devices. The ambiances are not just wallpaper and colors packages. Everything looks connected and an ambiance(theme) switch changes the colors throughout the OS. The user interface is filled with translucent pages, apps, and menus. Minimal enough? This combination leaves all the space for apps and multitasking. Namely Lock screen, Home, App drawer, and Events. In total, the OS really has just 4 pages. You can anytime see the status of other apps without leaving your current app. Most importantly, the Home-screen recents turns out to be very helpful once you learn to peek behind any app to the home screen. Second, you see a lot more apps altogether unlike the stacks in other OSes so switching between an app you just opened and an app you opened 8 apps before is quick. So, it’s the equivalent to recents from Android, but better in every way. It’s clean but as you start opening apps their tiles start showing up on the home screen. To start with, the Home screen doesn’t hold any icon or widget. Sailfish is unlike any other OS existing in the market. I had plenty of issues in the process but as I said the community is helpful I had most of my things sorted by the community, mostly by Matti Lehtimäki. Sailfish has a brilliant HADK and the community is helpful. While I wasn’t really bored of Android but I always wanted to try sailfish OS. The device has plenty of AOSP based ROMs ported but never had Sailfish/Ubuntu/Tizen/Others ported to it. So yeah, basically an android device but one with official support from LineageOS. 5 MP front Battery: 2500 mAh OS: Sailfish OS 2.2.1.18 - Community Edition (hybris-14.1) Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 64-bit Octa-core RAM: 2 GB GPU: Adreno 405 Storage: 16 GB Display: 1080x1920 FHD Display Size: 5.5 inches, 401 ppi Cellular: 2G, 2G, 4G, VoLTE Camera: 13.1 MP Rear with flash. Sailfish ain’t android based nor has the design principle matching to that of iOS, Android or Windows. So Sailfish is developed by passionate meego developers who refused to give up on the operating system, thereby they set up a new company, Jolla. Oh wow, that just gave me a thought, every operating system that Nokia had touched so far has died. Its a reboot from MeegoOS which Nokia killed along with Symbian when they transitioned towards windows phone. That we’ll have to see.Īnother one that we have is Sailfish OS from Finland. Ubuntu Touch was thrown into the well by Canonical but another group (UBports) pulled it back alive with hopes for its future. Not really sure if you’ve heard of Meego and then there was Firefox OS.Īll the ones mentioned above have left us. Heck, Windows Phone died trying to catch adoption. There are huge chances you never heard but a few OSes came and left. Here’s my experienceĪndroid and iOS aren’t the only two Operating systems for smartphones.
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