Canonical hopes its Ubuntu Touch software will be ready to ship on smartphones in the coming year. Right now you can download and install a preview build on dozens of Android-powered handsets, but it’ll likely be a while before you can buy a smartphone that comes with the OS from your wireless carrier. But Canonical […]
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Ubuntu Phone OS now supports cellular data, social sharing, more
Ubuntu Phone OS is a Linux-based operating system for smartphones and touchscreen devices such as tablets, and it’s still very much a work in progress. When the developers at Canonical started showing off Ubuntu Phone OS in January, it didn’t support phone calls, cellular data, or much of anything else. It didn’t even really run […]
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Ubuntu Touch team hopes to have mostly-working smartphones by end of May
Canonical has been offering pre-release builds of Ubuntu Touch for smartphones and tablets for a few months. But these early builds are pretty rough around the edges. Not only are there very few third party apps that can run on Ubuntu Touch at the moment, but the software isn’t really stable enough to run on […]
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Canonical offers guide for porting Ubuntu Touch to run on most Android devices
The Samsung Galaxy S III may not be the only non-Nexus phone running Ubuntu Touch Preview for long. Canonical has posted instructions for porting Ubuntu Touch to run on pretty much any Android phone or tablet. It turns out the process is pretty straightforward: Because most of the hard work has already been done by […]
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Ubuntu Phone OS developer preview to launch February 21st
Canonical will release the first developer preview of Ubuntu Phone OS on February 21st, 2013. While the first phones designed for the Linux-based operating system won’t hit the streets until late 2013 at the soonest, you’ll be able to download and install the Touch Developer Preview on the two most recent Google Nexus phones. The […]
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Bring a little of Ubuntu Phone OS to Android with Glovebox
Ubuntu Phone OS is an upcoming mobile operating system based on Ubuntu Linux. Among other things, it has a touch-based user interface that’s different from anything we’ve seen on smartphones so far, including a side panel which lets you launch frequently used programs just by sliding your thumb from the edge of the screen. But […]
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The first Ubuntu smartphones could launch in October
Phones running Ubuntu Phone OS could be available as soon as October. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth tells the Wall Street Journal that the first phones running the software “will be available in two large geographic markets” that month, but he wouldn’t say which markets. It’s not clear if that includes the US, but the company […]
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Closer look at Ubuntu Phone OS (video)
Ubuntu Phone OS is a Linux-based operating system for smartphones that could show up in handsets that will hit the market in late 2013 or early 2014. But Ubuntu’s parent company Canonical is already showing off early builds of the software running on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone — and in the coming weeks Canonical […]
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Ubuntu Phone OS coming in 2014, Ubuntu on Android in 2013
Ubuntu maker Canonical is getting into the smartphone business in a big way. The company has announced it’s developing a version of its popular Linux-based operating system designed to run on smartphones, with the first Ubuntu Phone OS handsets scheduled to hit the streets in 2014. Meanwhile, this year the company plans to partner with […]
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Ubuntu Phone OS in the works?
The company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux software for desktop, notebook, and server computers has already expressed interest in the smartphone space. Earlier this year Canonical unveiled plans for Ubuntu for Android, a platform that lets a single phone run both Android and Ubuntu, allowing you to make phone calls or run Android apps… or […]