Canonical Ubuntu Edge Smartphone - Coming Soon
Canonical has announced that the first smartphone Ubuntu Edge running on its Ubuntu Touch OS will hit the market later this year. The initial phones are said to come with latest hardware, while the OS itself will get support from the makers of top 50 apps on other platforms.
Ubuntu puts the control back into the hands of our partners and presents an exciting platform for consumers, delivering an experience which departs from the tired app icon grid of Android and iOS and provides a fluid, content-rich experience for all.
Ubuntu Edge Smartphone Specs:
EDGE comes with great specs, necessary of course to boot Ubuntu desktop. It will have a 4.5 inch 720p HD display which they think is just fine and not an overkill like Full HD. The display trades glass for pure sapphire crystal, a surface which could be scratched only by diamonds. The phone is made by "cool, textured amorphous metal" metal.
Below that display, you'll get an unspecified processor with the "fastest available multi-core processor", 4 GB RAM and a mammoth, 128 GBs of storage. At the back you get an 8 megapixel camera. For connectivity, the phone will have Bluetooth 4.0, dual-band Wifi and 4G LTE. The battery uses the advanced Silicon-anode technology.
