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"Ubuntu Touch OS phones coming from unnamed OEM next year"

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http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/10/5198062/ubuntu-touch-os-phones-coming-from-unnamed-oem-next-year

 

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Canonical's Ubuntu Touch operating system will be headed to mobile phones made by a mystery hardware manufacturer, the company said today. Speaking to CNET, founder Mark Shuttleworth said Canonical's made an agreement with an unnamed smartphone maker to get the operating system on "high-end" phones sometime next year.

 

It lives! It's great to see the official Ubuntu phone getting life pumped back into it, because I was personally very excited for this phone, and I'm sure many of you were as well. The OEM is currently unannounced, so we'll just have to wait and see who it's going to be. Hopefully it's somebody good!

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Hopefully it will be x86 based? Or am I thinking of something else

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I thought you could already install it on a nexus 4. It is on the ubuntu website.

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I thought you could already install it on a nexus 4. It is on the ubuntu website.

You can install the Ubuntu OS onto a phone that it's compatible with, but this is the official Ubuntu phone, both hardware wise and software wise.

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Looks like a Nexus...

That's because it is. They've developed it on the Nexus devices. 

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Looks like a Nexus...

That's because it IS the galaxy nexus, the only phone officially supporting ubuntu touch.  And you really think google, the owner of Android wants to help another mobile OS?

Finally my Santa hat doesn't look out of place

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