Ubuntu Off to a Promising Start on Smartphones

I've been watching this with some interest. It was particularly interesting to see how much better Canonical did creating a credible 'desktop-&#62;laptop-&#62;tablet-&#62;phone' design for an OS than Microsoft did. Microsoft could do a lot worse than just copy it.<p>That said, Glass and what not threaten to upset the applecart. There is a lot of potential in the 'smart brick in your pocket' linking to a variety of UI devices around your body, that has yet to be played out.

I think it will be really interesting to see if this will also do something like Ubuntu for Android, where you will be able to dock the phone and have a full version of Ubuntu Desktop.<p>I could see being able to use this as a development machine (Django/Flask/RoR) that you can take with you. I would have one setup docking station at work, and one in my home office. I would no longer need to keep two or more machines in sync via vcs/database dumps. Things are looking up.

Ubuntu is already takin huge market in the desktop and server space. I have made the full switch. It will be very interesting to see how it tackles smartphone . Just thinking 'Sudo Apt-get install Apache' gives me the shivers

Hardware - Canonical should get into making their own hardware. Open hardware with unlocked bootloaders on which you could install ubuntu, ff os, android and if ms releases images then winrt as well. Plus, they could make money this way. The boom that windows/pc's saw in the 1990s was in part due to easily available hardware. Why can't we have something similar but based on open source values for mobile phones.

A promising start is when they sell them and lots of them and people start dropping good reviews.<p>With Firefox OS around and with a brand name more people recognise, I doubt they will get anywhere.<p>I mean even Microsoft have had to work hard to get their stuff on the market.

I hope they will win a few carriers to support Ubunto Phone. Otherwise the will fail badly.