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Ubuntu Smart Phones Will Finally Go on Sale next Week
The Ubuntu powered smartphones have been a long time coming, but the first one is finally ready for the European market. The Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition will be available next week for €170 through a series of online flash sales. As the price already reveals, we won’t find the highest of specifications…
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Librem, an Impressive Open Source Laptop
If you’ve a spare $1,949 and are in the market for a new laptop, you could do worse than investing in a Librem, the new open source PC from San Francisco-based company, Purism. Currently seeking crowdfunding on Crowd Supply, the Librem, advertised by Purism as a “Free and Open Source…
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Android Devices Could Dual-Boot Sailfish OS
The Jolla smartphone barely reached the market and it looks like it already wants to take a drastic approach with its Sailfish OS. Jolla’s CEO, Tomi Pienimäki, is already talking about a dual-boot capability between the Sailfish OS and Android on current and new android-powered smartphones. Jolla wouldn’t be the…
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Stable Ubuntu 13.10 Available For Smartphones, Nexus 4 and Galaxy Nexus Included
Canonical has launched the newest iteration to their rapidly evolving and rapidly progressing Ubuntu OS. Last year, Canonical introduced Ubuntu for Android tablets and Smartphones, and later even attempted to make the first Ubuntu phone, the Edge, as well. Unfortunately, the crowd funding campaign for the latter failed, mainly due…
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Canonical Confirms Ubuntu Touch For October 17th
Canonical have confirmed that the Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system will be coming out on October the 17th 2013. This means the stable release of the Ubuntu Touch OS is still on schedule. Version 1.0 of the OS comes out with support for the Google Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus…
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Ubuntu Edge Now World’s Biggest Crowd-Funded Campaign, Still Won’t Make Target
Ubuntu’s Edge has just passed the crowd funding record of $10,266,845 previously set by the Pebble Smartwatch. The Ubuntu Edge has now raised $10,448,255 but that still leaves it a huge way behind its target of $32,000,000. With only six days left it seems likely the Ubuntu Edge will fall…
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Canonical’s Founder Appeals To Potential Backers As Ubuntu Edge Struggles
Canonical’s founder, Mark Shuttleworth, has posted a personal update letter on the IndieGoGo campaign page appealing to potential backers to contribute to the scheme. Canonical started out with a mammoth expectation of raising $32 million but with 8 days left of the 1 month project, Canonical have raised only about…
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Ubuntu Edge Will Not Be Bootloader Or Carrier Locked
The Ubuntu Edge smartphone will reportedly not have a locked bootloader or locked carrier network. That is according to the developers from Ubuntu for the Edge smartphone, on an AMA (ask me anything) session on Reddit. The Canonical IndieGoGo project page unfortunately omitted these two crucial pieces of information which…
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Canonical Drops Price Of Ubuntu Edge To $695
A few days ago we brought you the news that the Canonical project on IndieGoGo to raise $32 million for the Ubuntu Edge was running out of steam and in-danger of failing to meet its target as new backers had slowed dramatically. It appears Canonical have recognised the issue and…
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Windows 8 Growing In Popularity With Gamers Shows Steam Hardware Survey
The Steam Hardware Survey always gives a good indication of what PC gamers are doing in terms of hardware and software trends. The monthly survey reveals details on all the hardware and software inside Steam users’ PCs. So if you’re interested in seeing if Steam gamers prefer Nvidia or AMD,…
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Ubuntu Edge Passes 20% Crowd-Funding Milestone
Ubuntu’s new “Edge” smartphone got off to a flying start generating nearly $3.2 million in under a day of its Indiegogo campaign. Canonical’s new smartphone has now passed 22% of its funding target. Currently $7 million of the $32 million total has been generated in a few days. In those…
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Ubuntu Edge Phone Raises $3.2m Funding In Less Than A Day
Building a smartphone and taking it to market is no easy task, although it does get a lot less complicated when you raise a huge pile of money to help you and Canonical has done just that, raising 10% of the total money it required to bring their new device…
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China inks a deal with Ubuntu makers for their own OS
The Chinese government is looking forward to have their own version of an open source operating system as they’ve signed a 5 year contract with the company that made Ubuntu, Canonical. The new open source operating system for China is based on Ubuntu’s reference design, technically a chinese version of Ubuntu.…
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