«Hi-end» smart phones with Ubuntu Touch will appear in 2014

This was reported today Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth. According to him, recently signed a contract with an unnamed until the smartphone maker. According to the contract, the phone's performance with Ubuntu Touch will be released in 2014. As you can see, Canonical does not give up - despite the fails fundraising campaign to provide such a device in the home, the phone is also see the light.

Then were collected slightly more than $ 12 million of the 32 million required for a successful start of production.

Now OS for mobile devices Ubuntu Touch available for everyone, but you need to install it on their own, on the availability of the device. So far, no one smartphone manufacturer has not undertaken for the release of devices based on the OS. Rather, it was not until recently, because someone still decided to take this step. It is a pity that Shuttleworth did not say which company will produce smartphones based on Ubuntu Touch.

Among other things, the head of Canonical said that currently negotiating with another 4 major manufacturers of smartphones. It may well be that there is still some companies that agree to produce a new type of smartphone with a relatively new operating system "on board". It is worth remembering that this smartphone will allow the user to obtain a complete workstation When connecting to keyboard, mouse and monitor.

A kind of desktop-in-pocket. What is left is to wish good luck to Canonical.

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Source: habrahabr.ru/post/205652/