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Ubuntu Edge Smartphone Funding Trends Low
alphadogg writes "The first heady rush of support for Canonical's crowd-funded Ubuntu Edge smartphone appears to have tapered off, as donations for the eye-catching device have slowed substantially over the past several days. The project sits just above the $7 million mark at the time of this writing – a large sum by the standards of crowd-funded projects, to be sure, but the $32 million goal is still a long way off. The Edge is slightly, but measurably, behind schedule – by about $600,000, according to a tracking graph made by Canonical's Gustavo Niemeyer. However, there's speculation that wealthy Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth might contribute some of his personal fortune to the project." The campaign has already broken records with its spectacular first few days. I hope that Shuttleworth does kick in to make production feasible, because the idea and the design are impressive — but I'm leery of spending quite so much on any phone.
The design is interesting and I'd love a dual-boot android/ubuntu device but I can't spend $600, let alone $830 on a phone.
the design? you mean the pictures? that's what they are, pictures..
that's why it's on indiegogo, they're more lax about that kind of stuff, so you can get by with only showing a rendering and implying you have a product ready without actually showing.. they have not chosen any parts for the device yet.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Yeah. But a 64 Gb iPhone isn't going to be a complete piece of shit. This will. Oh, the hardware might be okay, but it's going to ship with Ubuntu. Anybody can look at modern Ubuntu and draw conclusions about whether or not this is going to be a steaming turd.
Or far more likely if they do raise the $32M it will be a budget phone for a super phone price.
If they do that no one gets their money back and instead has a POS phone.