Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping In October

An anonymous reader writes "Smartphones running the open source Ubuntu operating system will be available to customers beginning in October 2013, Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth told CIO Journal. Ubuntu will be available on a full range of devices, including desktop and tablet computers, potentially providing corporate IT executives a way to reduce the number of devices they purchase and manage, and would allow users to access all manner of corporate data through a single, pocket-sized device. 'You can share Windows apps to the phone desktop,' said Mr. Shuttleworth during a meeting in New York Tuesday." Jon Brodkin adds, "Canonical is taking community input on what the core applications (e-mail, calendar, clock/alarm, weather, file manager, document viewer, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter) should look like. The best aspects of community proposals will hopefully make it into Ubuntu phones when they finally hit the market sometime toward the end of 2013 or beginning of 2014. Take a look at the best designs Canonical has received so far."

Comments

Re:This might be taken as a stupid question:

[Anonymous Coward]

Unity.

Re:I'm sorry, but

[K. S. Kyosuke]

I'm not sure what new-shiney Ubuntu brings to the smartphone table

The ability to use a single codebase, in any language, to run on your desktop AND on your phone?

Re:Exchange

[DogDude]

seamless:
Perfectly consistent: a seamless plot in the novel.

Exchange: The most widely used email/scheduling/office management server software on the planet: http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/en-us/default.aspx

access: verb (used with object):
To make contact with or gain access to; be able to reach, approach, enter, etc.: ie: Bank customers can access their checking accounts instantly through the new electronic system.

Re:I'm sorry, but

[L4t3r4lu5]

As someone running an AOSP ROM, I disagree. Your carrier's ROM may be crippled and shit, and they may be cagey about the drivers, but Android is open.