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Hands On With Ubuntu For SmartPhones

Posted by timothy on from the looking-slick dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "Ubuntu for smartphones may be pretty late to the smartphone ecosystem, but as the hands-on video demonstrates, Canonical has been paying attention. The operating system is just called Ubuntu, allowing the company to complete their illusion that this operating system offers everything that desktop Ubuntu runs. If you're a fan of the Unity UI you will find yourself right at home with this interface since every bit of Ubuntu has visual cues that come straight from Unity. As the video shows, the animations looked great, and the phone feels incredibly fast. The top bar of the OS has several icons across it, offering a quick glimpse into things like battery life, messages and others. Settings for every app are available by swiping up from the bottom of the screen, in a gesture that is quite similar to the one used in Windows 8 to access the menu. Given that it's early days for the OS, Ubuntu is far from perfect. For instance, their welcome screen allows for way too many apps to be rapidly accessible without a pin lock of some kind."

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  1. Re:Wat by Inf0phreak · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Typical noob...

    cat ~/mail/contacts/* | grep [...]

    You earned yourself a Useless Use of Cat Award!

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  2. If you're a fan of the Unity UI... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    If you're a fan of the Unity UI...

    snigger

    Good one.

    1. Re:If you're a fan of the Unity UI... by oodaloop · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I don't think Unity has many fans when it comes to desktops and laptops. But tablets and netbooks? Yeah, I can see that. I don't like Canonical forcing a tablet OS on the desktop (and I like it even less when Microsoft does it). But moving a touch-based tablet OS onto a phone sort of makes sense. Perhaps we'll see the day when Ubuntu is nothing more than a tablet and phone OS and we'll all laugh when we think about the days we used it on the desktop.

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  3. Re:Wat by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It looks to me like somebody forgot to specify the network device over which the call is supposed to go out, as well as failing to specify the tty that the SIM is listening on...

  4. Re:Wat by Cinder6 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    While cat is superfluous there, structuring the command in that way can make what's happening more obvious to the novice. Personally, grep's argument handling has always seemed backwards to me. I tend to think of it as "search this file for this pattern" (grep ), not "search for this pattern in this file" (grep ), so when I was first using Linux, I often used cat | grep because I kept getting the command wrong.

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  5. Re:Useless - schmuseless! by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Good lord what have I started?