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...
View ArticleBring a little of Ubuntu Phone OS to Android with Ubuntu Phone Experience
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,...
View ArticleAdd Ubuntu Phone OS sidebar to Android via Ubuntu Phone Experience
The Ubuntu smartphone, a new challenger in the mobile ecosystem, won’t be arriving anytime soon. One of its OS features, however, is a side panel that has caught our attention among other parts of the...
View ArticleUbuntu 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...
View ArticleCanonical 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...
View ArticleUbuntu 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...
View ArticleUbuntu 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...
View ArticleCanonical announces Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group, first 8 telecom partners
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...
View ArticleLilbits (7-09-2013): Dropbox wants to sync your app data
Dropbox is already one of the biggest players in online storage. But the company wants to be more than that. At its first developers conference, Dropbox introduced new tools that app makers can use to...
View ArticleVerizon joins Ubuntu advisory group: Ubuntu Phone OS coming to America?
Verizon Wireless is the latest company to join Ubuntu’s Carrier Advisory group, which suggests that the US wireless carrier could be planning to offer phones running Ubuntu Phone OS at some point....
View ArticleUbuntu Edge: Next week Canonical announces… something
Canonical is preparing to make some sort of Ubuntu-related announcement next week. On July 18th the company updated the Ubuntu homepage with a 4-day countdown, a picture of a diagonal line down the...
View ArticleIs this the Ubuntu Edge smartphone?
Canonical plans to introduce something next week, and there’s a good chance it’ll be a phone-related announcement about something called Edge. While we’ll have to wait a few days for all the details,...
View ArticleUbuntu Edge: Canonical wants to build a crowd-funded Linux/Android phone...
The developers of the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system want to build a phone. It’s called the Ubuntu Edge, and you may have already heard of it. But it turns out the plans for Edge might make it...
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