Jolla, the mobile company from Finland, today announced that the independent mobile operating system Sailfish OS is now ready for licensing. The next generation Sailfish OS scales from smartphones to tablets and introduces new software capabilities. Jolla is also working with Intel to support the Intel Atom x3 processor platform on Sailfish OS.

The Sailfish OS is soon reaching a major milestone as it is scaling from smartphones to tablets with the introduction of the Jolla Tablet. The first shipments of Jolla’s second Sailfish OS product are expected to start in Q2/2015.

At this point, Sailfish OS 2.0 is introducing e.g. a new enhanced user interface, support for Intel architecture, and previously new software integration capabilities:

• Stronger technical OS core and improved Android application compatibility
• Support for Intel architecture, including the Intel Atom x3 processor
• Great multitasking for both smartphones and tablets
• Improved user experience with an enhanced, even richer user interface
• Strong privacy and personalization features
• Many new UI/UX features, like enhanced notifications and events views, and even simpler swipe access to main functions
• Sailfish 2.0 is designed to provide premium visibility in the UI for digital content providers nd to enable OS level integration
  for mobile commerce
  

Sailfish OS 2.0 is now ready for licensing to manufacturers and other partners. Once they put the software in their devices, you should be able to get your hands on phones running the new software at some point in the second quarter of the year.

Jolla also announced at MWC 2015 plans for 'Sailfish Secure' mobile phone platform based on Sailfish OS.

The company partners with SSH Communications Security to develop the secure mobile phone solution designed for government officials,
corporations, and consumers.

The solution will be based on a security-hardened version of the open and independent mobile operating system Sailfish OS, and SSH’s
communication encryption and key management platform.

The Sailfish Secure approach will be able to adapt the solution to users' preferred hardware platform, i.e. the solution is not tied to a specific hardware configuration.