OnePlus One to run Jolla Sailfish OS in future: New official image confirms possibility

Chinese smartphone startup OnePlus' popular offering viz the OnePlus One, that runs the now legacy Android 4.4.2 KitKat operating system out of the box, has been spotted running Jolla's Sailfish OS, thus hinting at a OnePlus-Jolla collaboration.

According to an official tweet by Jolla's Martin Brook, who has also posted a mug shot of the OnePlus One running the Sailfish operating platform, OnePlus loyalists can anticipate the One smartphone to get Jolla's Sailfish OS support in the near future.

#SailfishOS on oneplus one. Thanks to @stskeeps for the hints. Doing it Together at #MWC pic.twitter.com/Ibbxpt2HCF
— Martin Brook (@vgrade) March 5, 2015

Engineers at Jolla are also expected to share more information regarding how OnePlus One users can flash the Sailfish OS on their devices, shortly, according to an official Jolla blog post.

As of now, multiple Android smartphones such as the Google Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7, Samsung Galaxy S4 and the older Galaxy S3 can be flashed with Sailfish OS via the Sailfish OS Hardware Adaptation Kit.

Specifically, the Sailfish Hardware Adaptation Kit consists of:

Mer core: The Linux userspace core

• Android Hardware Adaptation (HA/HAL), consisting of:

• Device-specific Android Kernel

• Binary device drivers taken from an Android ROM (e.g. CyanogenMod)

• The libhybris interface built against the binary drivers

• Middleware packages depending on hardware-specific plugins

• A Qt/Wayland QPA plugin utilising the Android hwcomposer

• Sailfish OS components

It is also worth noting that the OnePlus is capable of running customised diversions of the open-source Ubuntu Touch and multiple Android custom ROMs.

Key technical specifications of OnePlus One