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Ubuntu Touch for Phones Will Be Usable by the End of the Month

Ubuntu Touch for Phones has been announced for some time now, but Canonical has yet to release a working version of it. This problem will be fixed by the end of May. Rick Spencer, an engineering manager at Canonical, has promised that a working version of the operating system would be made available soon. He also un...

8 May 2013
19:51 GMT

Ubuntu Touch Receives New Features and Gets Closer to a Working Version

Canonical has been pretty silent about the development of Ubuntu Touch, but some details about the new operating system are detailed every week, in the development mailing lists. Ubuntu Touch, the operating system from Canonical that will be available for smartphones and tablets, is not ready yet. It can't be u...

18 April 2013
11:50 GMT

Ubuntu Touch OS Receives Important Updates

The development of Ubuntu Touch OS has been kept in the dark these past few weeks, but Canonical has released some information about the progress made by the developers. Mark Shuttleworth has promised that a functional version of Ubuntu Touch, for tablets and mobiles, would be available soon, but it seems that the d...

26 March 2013
12:34 GMT

Unity Next to Replace Old Unity and Converge Desktop and Phone Ubuntu Platforms

After Canonical announced they are building their own display manager to replace X and to squash the Ubuntu dreams of Wayland fans, they also announced Unity Next, a new session-level shell implementation build on Qt and QML. When Unity was first introduced back in 2010, people didn't like it. It caused an upr...

5 March 2013
03:49 GMT

WhatsApp Client Developed for Ubuntu Phone – Photo

Ubuntu for Phones was just released a couple of weeks ago and already there’s a major app developed for it.Matthias Gehre announced on Launchpad that he’s working on a WhatsApp client called "WhosThere". According to him, it’s built on C++/QML/Javascript and the backend is yowsup, and open-source Wh...

4 March 2013
12:41 GMT

Ubuntu Touch Will Work on Kindle Fire HD and 30 Other Devices

Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview has been released for some time now, but it's only working on a very select number of devices. The community has stepped in and the number of devices has increased exponentially.A lot of people have gone out of their way to port the new Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview for their devi...

27 February 2013
11:33 GMT

Canonical Releases Daily Builds for Ubuntu Touch OS

Canonical is now releasing daily builds for its Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview, just like they do with the desktop version of Ubuntu. This may seem like a hassle at first, especially if you would like to keep your phone or tablet up to date, but it also means that Canonical is dedicated to the task of updating the s...

27 February 2013
10:56 GMT

Canonical Unleashes Ubuntu for Phones Porting Guide

The initial Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview was released for Nexus devices, but Canonical has now  provided a comprehensive porting tutorial.Canonical needs its operating system to run on a variety of devices, but they can only concentrate on so many. This is where the community steps in and so far, the...

23 February 2013
08:25 GMT

Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview Hands-On First Impressions

Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview was launched a couple of days ago and so far, it promises a lot of features, but will it even stack up to its competition? We have installed Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview on a LG Nexus 4 device (a complete tutorial is provided) and we were impressed with Canonical's solution for ...

23 February 2013
06:20 GMT

How to Restore Android on Nexus Devices from Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview

Canonical has released the Ubuntu Touch Development Preview for a few select devices and installing it is quite easy. This a tutorial that will show how you can return from your Ubuntu for Phones OS back to the Android system that previously inhabited the device. Even if the installation of Ubuntu Touch Development...

22 February 2013
04:01 GMT

Accessing Gmail on Ubuntu for Phones Sends Users to iTunes App Install

Canonical has just announced the Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview, a glimpse of the future Ubuntu for Phones, but it seems that besides the obvious problems, there are a few interesting ones. After we installed Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview, we started to fiddle with it. As you would imagine, most of the stuff you&rs...

21 February 2013
17:42 GMT

Ubuntu for Phones Officially Released by Canonical

Canonical has finally launched its Ubuntu for Phones OS, but so far it's just a Touch Developer Preview for enthusiasts and developers. Canonical teased us for almost two months with the release of its promised OS, but Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview was finally launched today, February 21. In order to use the ...

21 February 2013
14:19 GMT

CES 2013: Ubuntu Phone OS Demoed on Galaxy Nexus – Video

After yesterday’s demonstration of Ubuntu Phone OS by Mark Shuttleworth at CES 2013, here comes another video preview (longer this time) of this spectacular operating system for smartphones, created by Canonical. In the above video (go ahead and click it), Richard Collins, Ubuntu Mobile product manager, is th...

8 January 2013
17:21 GMT

Ubuntu Phone Spotted in a Bar, Supposedly

Ubuntu on phones is a bold move from Canonical and they will need a lot of money for the marketing campaign. They can also start by forgetting or taking pictures of their phones in a bar, somewhere. This is a really old tactic and it’s not really effective anymore. Forgetting or spotting a phone in a bar might...

5 January 2013
16:07 GMT

Ubuntu for Smartphones Announced – VIDEO

Canonical is becoming one of the biggest players in today’s market and it's going head to head with Apple and Google by launching Ubuntu for smartphones. We can’t really say it’s much of a surprise, but still, Ubuntu going to smartphones is one of the few directions left for Canonical. Accord...

2 January 2013
13:22 GMT


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