“Jolla brings major update to Sailfish OS”

Jolla has Monday a new version of its Sailfish operating system made available. The update, Vaarainj lwa rvi called, contains several improvements and new features. So you can now also text within Sailfish and Android apps are copied and pasted.

Since Jolla last year his eponymous smartphone with Sailfish OS release, the company provides the software regularly of new features, such as 4g. With the tenth update to bring the Finns Monday, say that again, a slew of new features to the operating system.

Except the copy and paste of text within Sailfish and Android apps includes the update a search function for the music library. Further Vaarainjärvi with the ability to view incoming calls and alarms to cancel the phone upside down to rotate it. Finally, there are new views for the Here maps, including satellite and night view.

Jolla also says that the Sailfish interface on the kick has been taken. One of the often-heard criticism from reviewers was that inconsistent. As demonstrated in the interface in apps top different balls which was to be seen in any screen the user was watching. A light ball gave an active screen, while the dark spheres for the other were.

“In some apps was the hierarchy only so deep, that we are not the entire path could show. This caused inconsistency,” writes Jolla. Therefore, the company has, on both sides of the Sailfish-screen, a ball is placed, what the summary would clarify.

Finally, the Sailfish-update the operating system and associated apps faster to react. Android apps to react more rapidly due to technical improvements, says Jolla, partly by the adding of the Wayland-displaydriver. By geheugenverbeteringen would also be more Sailfish apps next to each other can rotate.

Sailfish OS is an operating system with a Linux kernel that is based on MeeGo from Nokia. The operating system can deal with Android-apps and now it runs only on smartphones, such as the eponymous Jolla. There is, however, also a tablet with a custom version of the software available. That appears in the middle of next year.

The tenth update for Sailfish OS is by instant download. For the software is about 2GB of free space is required. A complete list of improvements is to be found in the release notes, says Jolla.


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