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Canonical Seeks $32 Million To Make Ubuntu Smartphone

Posted by samzenpus on from the pay-the-man dept.

nk497 writes "Canonical has kicked off a crowdfunding campaign to raise $32 million in 30 days to make its own smartphone, called Ubuntu Edge, that can also hook up to a monitor and be used as a PC. If it meets its funding target on Indiegogo, the Ubuntu Edge is scheduled to arrive in May 2014. To get one, backers must contribute $600 (£394) on the first day or $810 (£532) thereafter. Canonical will only make 40,000 of the devices."

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  1. Actual Link by Ynot_82 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actual link to indiegogo page, which is missing from FTS
    http://igg.me/at/ubuntuedge

  2. Re:Too much bullshit from Canonical by kasperd · · Score: 4, Informative

    Canonical has bullshitted too much in the past to be taken seriously about this. Several times, they've announced that new products from major vendors (Asus, Dell) would run their version of Linux. Never happened.

    I am writing this comment on a Dell that came with Ubuntu preinstalled.

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  3. Re:Too much bullshit from Canonical by Again · · Score: 4, Informative

    Canonical has bullshitted too much in the past to be taken seriously about this. Several times, they've announced that new products from major vendors (Asus, Dell) would run their version of Linux. Never happened. They need to STFU until the product ships.

    Who is voting up this dumbass?

    http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/w/wiki/3685.dell-xps-13-laptop-developer-edition-a-client-to-cloud-solution-project-sputnik.aspx
    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009F1I16K/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B009F1I16K&linkCode=as2&tag=wwwcanoniccom-20#productDetails

  4. Re:Too much bullshit from Canonical by Animats · · Score: 3, Informative

    Could you link to those announcements please?

    There are lots of Canonical announcements about machines coming preloaded with Unbuntu. Not many shipments.

    There are other tablet and phone Ubuntu announcements, which you can find with Google. Someone is taking "pre-orders" for a Ubuntu tablet for delivery in late 2013.

    Despite all their press releases, Canonical seems unable to get any manufacturer to ship a preloaded Ubuntu machine in volume.

  5. Re:Too much bullshit from Canonical by kesuki · · Score: 3, Informative

    i noticed alienware has the choice of ubuntu -- alienware is owned by dell and is their 'gaming' model line http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-x51-r2/pd.aspx

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  6. Re:Too much bullshit from Canonical by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Major OEMs (HP, Dell, etc) ship millions of computers with Ubuntu every year. The shipments are mostly to emerging markets (China, India...), which is why you don't see many machines in western (read: slashdot-reading) countries.

    Source: I am affiliated with that effort

  7. I want one..... by PeterM+from+Berkeley · · Score: 3, Informative

    One of the first things I did with my android smartphone was plug in a USB keyboard and mouse and wonder why they didn't "just work".

    Re: sapphire: sapphire is one of the hardest materials there is, I think you could scratch the heck out of 'gorilla glass' with it. Just looked it up, gorilla glass has a "Vickers" hardness of 701 (max) vs. sapphire, at 2300.

    That said, sapphire is more brittle and crack-prone, however. Apparently gorilla glass is treated to stop crack propagation. It's quite possible a hammer-blow that wouldn't damage gorilla glass would smash sapphire.

    --PM