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First Look At Ubuntu Touch, the Smartphone OS

Posted by timothy on from the is-it-nsa-approved dept.

colinneagle writes "The first developer preview of Ubuntu Touch – aka 'Ubuntu for Phones and Tablets' – was unveiled just a few short months ago. And, just a few weeks back, it was announced that the team was shooting for having a fully functional (aka "can use it as your actual phone, on a daily basis") version by the end of May. May is now over, so Bryan Lunduke published some screenshots and analysis of the core features of the Ubuntu OS for smartphones and tablets."

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  1. Attention to Detail by norminator · · Score: 5, Funny

    I love how on Slide 9, he points out the attention to detail... except that in the largest text in the screenshot there's a glaring typo.

    Not so much a gripe about Ubuntu Phone (since it's not a released product) as it is about TFA,

  2. Re:I wonder by Beardo+the+Bearded · · Score: 4, Funny

    sudo apt-get install NSA-backdoor

    --

    ---
    ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
  3. Re:I wonder by RDW · · Score: 4, Funny

    sudo apt-get install NSA-backdoor

    NSA-backdoor is already the newest version.
    The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
          constitutional-rights