Yotaphone dumps Android for Sailfish

You may remember Yotaphone, the Russian smartphone which put two displays on each side. The YotaPhone was one of the first smartphones to have a dual display—one regular on the front and another e-ink display on the rear. The smartphone runs on Android operating system and managed to turn a few heads before launching the Yotaphone 2 this year. However, the news has it that Yotaphone has made a decision to dump the Google Android operating system, only to accept a newcomer, Jolla’s Sailfish.

Nokia engineers at Jolla had earlier released Sailfish, a smartphone operating system platform, which is an alternative to Google’s Android, Blackberry’s BBOS, Apple’s iOS, Samsung’s Tizen and Mozilla’s Firefox OS.  Sailfish was developed as Meego, when Nokia was experimenting with a new operating system after Symbian, later dropped when Windows Phone came onboard. The developers later departed from Nokia and started working on Sailfish. The Sailfish operating system will allow Android apps to run on its platform.

At present, there is no confirmation about YotaPhone rolling out the Sailfish OS for their existing two handsets or if they will ship their new OS on upcoming handsets only.

Yotaphone is not the only smartphone manufacturer which is breaking away from Google’s Android. Reports about Samsung giving up Android for its own Tizen OS have been one of the first in the news.