Jolla finally unveils Sailfish - a Linux-based rival to Android, iOS and Windows Phone

Danny Palmer
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Sailfish offers 'usability and speed-­of-­use to a totally new level, unseen in the mobile industry'. Really?

Jolla, the mobile operating system start-up founded by Nokia refugees, has finally unveiled Sailfish, the smartphone operating system based on Linux. The company had been in "stealth mode" for a...

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