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robthebold 2013-02-06 22:00

Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping in October
 
According to this article from the Wall Street Journal, Ubuntu smartphones are to begin shipping in October of 2013.

Also,
Quote:

Application developers will have access to the smaartphone (sic) operating system, which is optimized for the Galaxy Nexus handset manufactured by Samsung Electronics Co. , in late February.

www.rzr.online.fr 2013-02-06 23:05

Re: Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping in October
 
do you know someone who can test app on some kind of prototypes ?

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http://rzr.online.fr/q/ubuntu

shmerl 2013-02-17 04:48

Re: Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping in October
 
Aaron Seigo speaks about Ubuntu Phone:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/10755554...ts/HSL2C21DJt7

Pretty valid criticism.

Dave999 2013-02-17 06:03

Re: Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping in October
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by www.rzr.online.fr (Post 1321240)
do you know someone who can test app on some kind of prototypes ?

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http://rzr.online.fr/q/ubuntu

After the 21 I think it will be plenty of people...

Dave999 2013-02-19 08:09

Re: Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping in October
 
Tick, Tack, TABLET TIME...http://www.ubuntu.com/

SD69 2013-02-20 13:45

Re: Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping in October
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by shmerl (Post 1323379)
Aaron Seigo speaks about Ubuntu Phone:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/10755554...ts/HSL2C21DJt7

Actually, it's an attack on the convergence claim put forth by Canonical - very little about the phone. One of the few things worse about self-congratulatory corporate press releases is people who try to use them as the genesis for a critical discussion. I mean, if you want your criticism to be taken seriously, criticize about something that is real and consequential, not the wording of a press release.

Estel 2013-02-20 14:08

Re: Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping in October
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by SD69 (Post 1324081)
Actually, it's an attack on the convergence claim put forth by Canonical - very little about the phone. One of the few things worse about self-congratulatory corporate press releases is people who try to use them as the genesis for a critical discussion. I mean, if you want your criticism to be taken seriously, criticize about something that is real and consequential, not the wording of a press release.

Well, I'm not sure, if Aaron Seigo deserve sush "bashing". After all, half of his (short) criticism looks quite about the merit:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aaron Seigo
We can start with the obvious clue: Unity currently does not use QML at all; Ubuntu Phone is pure QML. So, no, it is not the same code, it is not the sort of seamless cross-device technology bridge that they are purporting.

Ah, but the wording in the announcement is a bit cagey ... Perhaps if we define "same Ubuntu code" to mean "Ubuntu the distribution with all versions of the UI installed" we can cover this with a great amount of fudge factor. Perhaps Unity will eventually be merged with Ubuntu Phone, and that's what they mean by "when complete".

Later, he also explains, why he thinks what Canonical does is hurting trust presented to Free software products. Generally, his criticism is pretty valid - we don't want marketing nonsense in Free software, for that, we have Google/Apple pie.

/Estel

Dave999 2013-02-20 14:15

Re: Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping in October
 
SD69 vs Estel

Round 2

Play fair!

Box!


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