Sailfish OS

Sailfish OS is a secure mobile operating system optimized for smartphones, tablets, and embedded devices. Developed by Jolla Ltd., it offers a reliable and secure platform for trusted mobile solutions, with a strong emphasis on privacy and data protection. Sailfish OS caters to small to large enterprises, government organizations, and tech-savvy consumers. It is utilized by corporate professionals, government officials, IT administrators and developers, as well as industries such as technology, telecommunications, government, finance, and healthcare.

Key Features

Reliable corporate platform: Sailfish OS provides a secure and dependable mobile operating system tailored for smartphones, tablets, and embedded devices. It offers a trusted platform for private corporate and public sector governmental deployments, featuring built-in mobile device management (MDM), multi-user support, and optimized daily usage of key applications.

Fourth generation security: Sailfish OS incorporates modern security functionalities designed specifically for corporate and governmental environments. It ensures the encryption of user data, app protection through Firejail sandboxing, connectivity behind a firewall, and built-in VPN support. The core OS services are sandboxed using systemd, enabling full-scale MDM capability for OS-level management.

World-class developer experience: Sailfish OS is an open platform with an active open-source contribution model. It provides developers with a diverse range of tools and capabilities, including a powerful command-line interface, improved coding assistance with Clang Code Model, and support for C++14 and Rust. Sailfish OS fosters an active developer community through its dedicated Sailfish OS forum.

User experience at the core: Sailfish OS prioritizes delivering a seamless user experience complemented by clean Scandinavian design principles. It offers enhanced legibility through a crisp visual style, an upgraded browser, a new battery-saving mode, and other UX refinements. Sailfish OS supports gesture-based native apps powered by the Qt framework and enables the secure execution of Android apps within an isolated sandbox.

Sailfish X device program: Sailfish X is the officially supported downloadable version of Sailfish OS for selected devices. Users can download and install Sailfish X to participate in the development or evaluate how the OS meets their needs. Currently, Sailfish X is available for selected Sony Xperia™ and Gemini PDA devices.

Customize to your needs: Sailfish OS is highly adaptable and can be tailored to meet diverse corporate and governmental requirements. It offers configurable device policies and provides easy extension points for custom apps, cloud accounts, location providers, VPN solutions, authentication methods, and more.

Hardware: Sailfish OS has been successfully ported to nearly a hundred different devices, supporting a wide range of chipsets and hardware variants. Its Hardware Adaptation Development Kit facilitates seamless support for new mobile devices.

User Interface: Sailfish OS is designed to scale effortlessly across different form factors and input styles. It delivers an aesthetically pleasing experience on displays of varying sizes, thanks to its sub-pixel scaling support. Users have the flexibility to customize preloaded content, including wallpapers, tones, photos, videos, and even small details like default email signatures and Bluetooth names.

Dedicated device mode: Sailfish OS can be effectively deployed on single-purpose devices optimized to excel in specific functions. By managing technical aspects such as connectivity, security, user management, over-the-air updates, and other OS services, it enables companies to focus on creating exceptional product experiences.

World-class mobile device management for corporations: Sailfish OS offers comprehensive mobile device management (MDM) support for corporations. It provides APIs for remote device setup, provisioning settings, policy definition, software management, and monitoring of data, call, and SMS statistics. Sailfish OS also supports device locking, multiple users, and WPA2 Enterprise WLAN authentication.