Seen as a major move from a small, yet significant new player in the mobile industry, Finalnd's Jolla(pronounced as yo-la) announced today that the Sailfish OS is now fully compatible with Android apps as well as Android hardware. It was already confirmed that Sailfish would run Android apps, but the question was when. Now we know. Taking advantage of the already robust and immensely popular Android ecosystem is what Jolla have done, on top of the unique UX the Sailfish OS offers. Not only you can download popular Android apps on the Sailfish OS, which Jolla claims, is without any modifications, the operating system is also Android hardware compatible. Meaning Vendors can take Sailfish OS and make devices with their current Android-based hardware implementations. Or one day, you can possibly load Sailfish on your Android phone, if you wish. BlackBerry 10 was the first major platform to support Android apps in its operating system, alas with some necessary modifications, but Jolla has taken it further with Sailfish, announcing full compatibility in which, you can access all the Android apps without having to wait for modifications by the first party developers. This not only enables Sailfish to have an extremely rich software catalog ...Source: http://www.fonearena.com/blog/81962/jollas-sailfish-os-now-fully-compatible-with-android-apps-and-android-hardware.html
