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Ubuntu Touch Beats Firefox OS For 'Best of MWC' From CNET

Posted by Unknown on from the everyone's-a-winner dept.

Jono Bacon writes "This week at Mobile World Congress both Firefox OS and Ubuntu have been wooing the audience with their mobile offerings. CNET reviewed both and felt that Ubuntu was 'the clear winner.' From the article, 'The team thought that Ubuntu Touch, the tablet version of which we got our hands-on for the first time at MWC, feels more like the complete package at this point. We liked its slick, elegant interface that makes use of every side of the screen and puts your content and contacts front and center, minimizing the time spent hopping back to a home screen.'" They still liked Firefox OS though, and the mere existence of multiple Free Software mobile systems with carrier support is a good sign if you ask me.

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  1. slick, elegant interface by Osgeld · · Score: 5, Funny

    glad is uses every side of the screen, but just like every other mobile device its almost all unused dead space in the middle, glad it takes millions of pixels to put "5 facebook updates" in plain text onto a screen

  2. but nothing. by tuppe666 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ubuntu is evil! Richard Stallman says so!!

    No Richard Stallman says this http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do which is about the intrusive nature of an opt-out system on them in which local system search terms are sent to Amazon.

    Quit with the hyperbole already. It is what it is.

  3. WebApp API by alexandre · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I just hope that Tizen, Ubuntu, FirefoxOS et al. can agree on a common WebApp API...