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Ubuntu Touch 1.0 release date confirmed

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Stephen Schenck

We only just got finished hearing about new details concerning Jolla’s launch of the first smartphone running Sailfish OS, and now we have some other big news from another one of these platform upstarts, getting confirmation for when to expect the first main Ubuntu Touch 1.0 release. Now sure, there’s been that developer preview that’s been available since MWC back in February, but Canonical’s been hard at work since then, and ...

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Ubuntu Edge campaign cuts prices, but is it too little, too late?

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Stephen Schenck

Last month, we heard about Canonical’s fantastically ambitious plan to crowdsource the funding of a seriously high-end smartphone, the Ubuntu Edge. The Edge would boast specs like 4GB of RAM and 128GB of flash, while being capable of dual-booting into either Ubuntu for phones or regular old Android. The plan’s goal is to raise $32 million over the course of a month, but halfway through, Canonical has yet to even hit the $10 million mark. Today, Canonical instituted a major price break on the Edge, but will it be enough ...

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Why I’m getting the Ubuntu Edge

Posted on July 24, 2013 by Stephen Schenck

On Monday, Canonical did something special: it kicked-off the fundraising campaign for the Ubuntu Edge, not only endeavoring to break some crowdfunding records, but to change the nature of the relationship between manufacturer and smartphone user in the process. It’s all wildly ambitious. I have serious concerns about Canonical’s ability to pull this off, and we’re talking about a serious amount of money to ask people to hand over with plans for availability still so far away. At first, I was content to just sit ...

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Ubuntu Edge campaign to fund development of very high-end dual-boot Android phone

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Stephen Schenck

Ubuntu has positioned itself to be one of this year’s many smartphone platform upstarts – the littler guys who are trying to elbow their way into an already incredibly competitive market. We were able to give Ubuntu a lot of hands-on time earlier this year when those preview builds arrived for Nexus-series devices, but news on the platform has been relatively quiet ever since. Today, we finally hit a big Ubuntu milestone, with Canonical starting a major fundraiser ...

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