The Desktop Strikes Back
The Desktop Strikes Back
By the time you read this, the world will already know whether Ubuntu has succeeded in raising US$ 32 million in a crowdfunding effort to build a new Ubuntu-based smartphone. The project has been the talk of open source circles since it started. As of now, it looks like they will be around US$ 22 million short, but that’s the glass-half-empty assessment. The other side is: They have already managed to raise nearly US$ 10 million dollars to create a new smartphone – no small feat for a little fish swimming with the sharks in the sea of mobility.
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By the time you read this, the world will already know whether Ubuntu has succeeded in raising US$ 32 million in a crowd-funding effort to build a new Ubuntu-based smartphone. The project has been the talk of open source circles since it started. As of now, it looks like they will be around US$ 22 million short, but that's the glass-half-empty assessment. The other side is: They have already managed to raise nearly US$ 10 million dollars to create a new smartphone – no small feat for a little fish swimming with the sharks in the sea of mobility.
If they build it, the Edge will come with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage – about twice the power and capacity of the latest Samsung Galaxy system. According to reports, it will be what experts in the industry call a "super-smartphone," meaning that you can take it anywhere and also plug into a monitor to use it as a complete computer system. And, the Edge will run the real Ubuntu – not some mobile knock-off system. Your applications will run on the little screen or the big screen, scaling automatically thanks to Ubuntu's innovations in display technology.
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