Jolla announces first Sailfish-based smartphone

This is overpriced.

Does "Android app compliant" mean it will play Android apps?

What's meant to be the advantage of Sailfish over Droid?

Originally posted by Jemborg:

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Does "Android app compliant" mean it will play Android apps?

What's meant to be the advantage of Sailfish over Droid?

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Seeing as he's requesting software developers to develop for Jolla, I doubt it will run Android apps.

And as you also said - what's the advantage of this over Android? In the limited details released, I can't see anything here that Android can't already do.

Android IS a multi-tasking OS.

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Android runtime
Sailfish OS includes the capability to run Android? applications through a third party solution. It is based on open source Android libraries, ensuring performance comparable to the native environment.

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Originally posted by xecuterbo:

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Android runtime
Sailfish OS includes the capability to run Android? applications through a third party solution. It is based on open source Android libraries, ensuring performance comparable to the native environment.

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I still don't really see the point of this. People will need a reason to switch OS. If I want an OS to run Android Apps, I'll use Android. Rather than a third party solution on a different OS.
Even putting that aside, I still don't see what this offers that Android doesn't already offer. It says in the specs below that the multi-tasking interface differentiates itself from Android. How? Just because it looks different??