A Preview of the Ubuntu Smartphone OS from CES
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A promising contender in the smartphone OS space.
Even with the continued strength of iOS and the growing dominance of Android, there's still room for innovation in the smartphone OS space. Just as how Ubuntu finds its place among Mac OS X and Windows, Canonical has revealed a version of its Linux-based OS for smartphones.
We were fortunate enough to go hands-on at a demonstration at CES. Overall, we were extremely impressed with the polish of the OS. It manages to do something different from both iOS and Android, and while those systems are tried and true, there's still plenty of room for innovation.
Check out the video below for what we saw:
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If this can replace my current Andoid OS I'll be all over it. Though I dont know if I like having to hold my thumb on the left side to toggle through apps.
I'm curious how much of that is your fault? I too find myself trying out each incremental Ubuntu release, but regretting it half the time. I've finally steeled myself and now just use the LTS releases.
Now why would you make someone else or something else 'pay' for your dislikes?
Seems very egoistical to me.
Not that it's a bad system.. it's just something that would need a little bit of playing with to remember what to do or which gesture to use.
I am a linux user through and through and while I would love this as is, I hope this also helps other linux developers to get into the phone OS. Having the option between say a Ubuntu, Fedora, Puppy( for old phones) and even a few new comers, would be great.
I was sad to see Nokia drop Maemo. Now, finally something to take its place.
Ubuntu's Unity really really sucks, I hate it so much. Windows 8 is not great, but okay, I can get used to it. Ubuntu's Unity, I'll never get what their direction is. Are those idiots trying to make a OS X clone? I thought it is a terrible direction ever since they started imitating the minimize/maximize buttons, and then moved the menu items on a top task bar. Horrible design. Probably okay on a phone though.
I hope this also means better optimizations for the desktop version of Ubuntu in the future.
Me want now!
Of course it reminds you of OSX. Mark Shuttleworth has mentioned before that is the intended direction for Ubuntu. Ubuntu is often referred to as the "Apple of the Linux world." And just for the record, Unity isn't a Desktop OS. It's not even, technically, a Desktop Environment. It's a shell for Gnome 3 (in the same way that Gnome Shell is a shell for Gnome 3).