By Todd Haselton |
Well that was fast. Canonical, the parent company behind Ubuntu, recently announced its intentions to provide Ubuntu for tablets, in addition to its goal to launch Ubuntu smartphones in 2014. Good news, tinkerers: the developer preview of Ubuntu Touch is now available for download. Ubuntu…
By Todd Haselton |
Here’s some bummer news of the day: Canonical announced that it won’t ship smartphones powered by Ubuntu until next year at the very earliest. That’s in contrast to earlier reports that we would see the first devices this year. Ubuntu might not have the power…
By Sean P. Aune |
Ubuntu is aiming to be everywhere you want to be, and that now includes not only smartphones, but also tablets. As promised, Canonical took the wraps off of Ubuntu Touch for tablets today. The newest version is built on the same core as the rest of…
By Brandon Russell |
Not only is Canonical working on getting Ubuntu for smartphones ready for consumers, but a tablet-optimized version in in the plans as well. The company put up a teaser on its website on Monday, pointing to an announcement on Feb. 19—the same day HTC is…
By Brandon Russell |
Canonical’s Ubuntu smartphone OS, which we saw earlier this year at CES, could become available in “two geographically large markets” this October. According to the Wall Street Journal, the OS will be pushed out to developers later this month, giving them enough time to create…
By Todd Haselton |
We stopped by Canonical’s booth last night to briefly check out Ubuntu for smartphones. As a quick reminder, this is very different than Ubuntu for Android, which provides an Ubuntu desktop experience but not an actual Ubuntu smartphone experience. In other words, it’s a completely brand new…
By Roy Choi |
Aaron hits the floor at Pepcom’s Digital Experience to bring you details on the recently announced Ubuntu platform for smartphones. While it’s a plus to have additional options in the smartphone marketplace, we have to wonder if there is enough room to support another mobile…
By Todd Haselton |
Canonical, the parent company that oversees the Ubuntu operating system, announced on Wednesday that it has plans to deploy smartphones that are powered by Ubuntu this year. That’s amazing news for consumers, especially if you’re like us and appreciate choice in the marketplace. But what…
By Todd Haselton |
Canonical, the parent company in charge of Ubuntu Linux, recently announced that it has plans to deliver Ubuntu-powered smartphones during 2013. We’ve heard that the OS was headed to mobile devices for quite some time, but now the company is officially detailing what we can…
By Mark Hearn |
How many mobile operating systems do consumers really need? This is definitely not an easy topic to discuss. but it appears that Canonical believes that there might be room for one more. The software developer has recently posted a job opening for a Business Development…
By Adriana Lee |
Ubuntu has previously been the strict domain of only the hardest-core tech geeks. But it seems this open-source Linux descendant is destined to go where it has never truly gone before — into the consumer electronics sector, says Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical (the…
By polrid |
Many Ubuntu users who upgraded to the latest version in October have reported numerous serious problems since. Yet the next flavor is already being developed, will you risk an upgrade or wait it out for stability?…
