Man, what a bummer. Can't make a purchase without a paypal account. Guys - please enable credit card payments and you'll have a horde of buyers from India :)
Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level
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Re: Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level
#42Well that decides it - I'm in. I'm excited about the possibility of a genuinely hand held, pocket sized device that I can hook up to behave like a full desktop. It's a format that has been tried before but the power/price ratio has never been favourable - this feels like the first real chance for it to work.
Just wondering what scenarios you foresee you using the desktop feature in? If your travelling there won't be a screen available unless you lug one around. In which case you might as well carry a laptop. At home and work you probably have a computer. I think it is an interesting concept but I don't quite see the practical use. Unless it had like a stand and a projector or something.
I'd rather not need a computer at home and work (and all the syncing issues that entails).
Currently I work from two fixed locations and also from home. If I can just have a fixed screen, keyboard and mouse there and take this around with all my current working stack ready to go that'd be ace!
Re: Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level
#43At this prices they will need to add financing options to their phones.
We are in the era of Ben Bernanke free money for everyone. Getting credit should not be that hard.
Financing is a top priority thing for selling phones and cars in the real world. Probably not in Mark Shutterworth's land thought.
Re: Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level
#44Well that decides it - I'm in. I'm excited about the possibility of a genuinely hand held, pocket sized device that I can hook up to behave like a full desktop. It's a format that has been tried before but the power/price ratio has never been favourable - this feels like the first real chance for it to work.
Just wondering what scenarios you foresee you using the desktop feature in? If your travelling there won't be a screen available unless you lug one around. In which case you might as well carry a laptop. At home and work you probably have a computer. I think it is an interesting concept but I don't quite see the practical use. Unless it had like a stand and a projector or something.
I wonder the same thing. But I would be really interested in trying a small Mac Air sized screen/keyboard shell that had a port that I could slide such a phone in to. Sort of a portable docking station.
Re: Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level
#45I don't quite get what's going on here. Is this an idea for a major commercial product or is it a quirky fun thing for the ubuntu community? The scale they're aiming for seems to imply the former.
Usable as a desktop is a cool idea, but more of a "linux on your wristwatch" idea than one with real use. I mean, if you have a keyboard & monitor handy, how hard is it to have a PC too? Cheap micro desktops are coming out all over the place. Cheap.
Am I missing the point entirely? Is this all about Ubuntu mobile itself with android & ubuntu desktop as extras?
I hope this doesn't sound like hating. I actually want this to succeed. It's cool. Crowd funding a major player in the OS/mobile space is even cooler. Lots of potential spinoffs down the road (like the iOS laptop I've wanted to get my dad for years). That said... Can anyone explain this to me? What are they trying to do here?
Re: Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level
#46Well that decides it - I'm in. I'm excited about the possibility of a genuinely hand held, pocket sized device that I can hook up to behave like a full desktop. It's a format that has been tried before but the power/price ratio has never been favourable - this feels like the first real chance for it to work.
Just wondering what scenarios you foresee you using the desktop feature in? If your travelling there won't be a screen available unless you lug one around. In which case you might as well carry a laptop. At home and work you probably have a computer. I think it is an interesting concept but I don't quite see the practical use. Unless it had like a stand and a projector or something.
> ... there won't be a screen available unless you lug one around
Interface with google glass or use a pico laser projector. MYO or one of the myriad one-handed keyboards (eg Twiddler, Kee4, CyKey) for input. It's not going to be easy at first but I'm not keen on spending the rest of my life sitting down in a stuffy office.
Re: Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level
#47if all the price tiers are sold out, it would generator 2.5 million only. That is pretty far away from the 32 million they need
You're off by an order of magnitude. All tiers combined (including the already sold out $600 tier) is around $25m.
oh. i meant by all the discounted price tiers and not including existing raised.
Re: Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level
#48That's quite cheap, given that you can easily pay $1,500 for a Galaxy S4 here.
Re: Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level
#49Well that decides it - I'm in. I'm excited about the possibility of a genuinely hand held, pocket sized device that I can hook up to behave like a full desktop. It's a format that has been tried before but the power/price ratio has never been favourable - this feels like the first real chance for it to work.
Just wondering what scenarios you foresee you using the desktop feature in? If your travelling there won't be a screen available unless you lug one around. In which case you might as well carry a laptop. At home and work you probably have a computer. I think it is an interesting concept but I don't quite see the practical use. Unless it had like a stand and a projector or something.
So you don't go places where there might be a display already? No hotels with a TV already in the room, never go to a friends or relatives who might have a screen that you could borrow?
Re: Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just wondering what scenarios you foresee you using the desktop feature in? If your travelling there won't be a screen available unless you lug one around. In which case you might as well carry a laptop. At home and work you probably have a computer. I think it is an interesting concept but I don't quite see the practical use. Unless it had like a stand and a projector or something.
So you don't go places where there might be a display already? No hotels with a TV already in the room, never go to a friends or relatives who might have a screen that you could borrow?
Still need peripherals though.