I, Love it.
This looks nice. The biggest problem I see with it is its late arrival to the smartphone game. There was a similar problem with Nokia’s MeeGo operating system. On the other hand, it may late enough for it to be a welcomed change from the somewhat stale iOS and Android phones that have been dominating the market for the past few years.
The only thing that is stopping me from actually thinking about buying this is my hardware set up, Currently my devices are seamless due to the fact I have all apple products, if I introduced this into my life then it will no longer flow, which is a great shame.
My favourite part is how they never discussed how it makes calls.
Not excited. It’s just another phone. What’s the big deal? There are tonnes of phones out there.
Because it’s Ubuntu, dummy! Duh! Where have you been?
No, seriously, I got to admit, when Canoncial said they were launching a new product I was not too surprised when it turned out to be a phone. They had mentioned it before. They’ll be going up against Mozilla’s Firefox OS, though; let’s see which startup will get the most attention.
Also, on the Ubuntu developer site for this new phone, they said that “companies like Unity Technologies are making commitments to support Ubuntu” (or something like that). Kind of a bold statement, eh?
screams to high heavens for a staff member to come have a natter on here 
Generally I just think it looks like a nice polished phone, I dislike the customisation you can do, Ive honestly always hated customisation when it comes to technology, maybe im boring. But id buy it over any other android phone and like I said, if it wasn’t for my flow, id buy it over my iPhone.
Meh. I don’t see anything special about it. It does everything my phone does now… except sync with existing Google services (or Apple services for iPhone users). I see this being a small, short-lived, niche market, much like Blackberry.
Now I realize by watching such an amazing concept, all while not being impressed at all, that we may have reached market saturation.
so what if it’s linux? really, so what?
Same thoughts here.
It’s really a nice concept. But it’s hard to get excited with such things nowadays.
Ok it looks nice but there is still the problem of apps, IDK if people have noticed but android became big because all the other phone companies needed an app store that could rival IOS, sense they have Android why would they use this that will have less apps from day one?
It looks nice but could they take the android source and integrate APK then it will be OK, but IMO even if this does come out in like 2 months a new IOS and Android will be out with its features so what is the point? maybe the apps will be on the bottom or top for IOS and other side for Android but there is no room for a new phone operating system(look at windows phone 7)
Exactly. Linux is the next big thing, probably. Think of many people with an Android phone use it without knowing it, or even gasp! while dissing Linux.
They actually did do that, but not with this phone I believe. Because Ubuntu and Android share the same kernel (Linux) they can run side by side. That’s the whole concept that they posted about being able to dock your phone and get a whole Ubuntu desktop waiting there, while being able to access phone features. Pick it up, it’s a phone again.
In the near future, I believe Canonical will even offer an option to upgrade this Android-only device to Ubuntu and Android on select phone models, for free. Now that’d be something.
Linux has been the next big thing for the past 20 years.
Exactly, its not going to take off. Ever.
BTW, is Canonical still insist on installing their SPYWARE on Ubuntu?
This is what RMS (Richard Stallman - President of Free Software Foundation) had to say:
“Ubuntu, a widely used and influential GNU/Linux distribution, has installed surveillance code. When the user searches her own local files for a string using the Ubuntu desktop, Ubuntu sends that string to one of Canonical’s servers. (Canonical is the company that develops Ubuntu.)”
“It behooves us to give Canonical whatever rebuff is needed to make it stop this. Any excuse Canonical offers is inadequate; even if it used all the money it gets from Amazon to develop free software, that can hardly overcome what free software will lose if it ceases to offer an effective way to avoid abuse of the users”
“Ubuntu allows users to switch the surveillance off. Clearly Canonical thinks that many Ubuntu users will leave this setting in the default state (on). And many may do so, because it doesn’t occur to them to try to do anything about it. Thus, the existence of that switch does not make the surveillance feature ok.”
And this is what founder of Canonical Mark Shuttleworth had to say :
“Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already.”
So good luck with this phone. I for one sure won’t get scam by it. LOLz.
Sounds like the Google business model.
Maybe it doesn’t.
Replace your apple products with Ubuntu ones. Problem solved.
I haven’t checked but Ubuntu phone will probably sync with other Ubuntu services. And I think you greatly underestimate the popularity of Ubuntu and how many of its existing fan base will move over and support Ubuntu phone.
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Exactly, its not going to take off. Ever.
[/quote] Yet you use it everyday. It’s a good bet this website runs off Linux.
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This is what RMS (Richard Stallman - President of Free Software Foundation) had to say:
[/quote] God I dislike Richard Stallman. He’s the open source equivalent to a religious nut job. He should also stop banging on about freedom when he promotes the GPL which is slavery by different means. It isn’t a license that secures freedom, it is a parasitic license that should be removed from the public eye. Licenses like BSD are proper free licenses, the GPL removes freedom just like the proprietary licenses the FSF denounce. Anyway that’s slightly offtopic.