What a talentless useless bullshit.
Ubuntu Edge
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Re: Ubuntu Edge
#152I love this concept, but I can't help but think: If apple releases the next iphone with an hdmi compatible connection, that would eliminate the benefit of this, no?
You don't get a full desktop OS (Mac OS X) when you dock the iPhone. I assume that's what you mean, your comment was a little unclear.
I am imagining a layout similar to an ipad, just for a larger monitor. Apple is slowly moving their desktop OS to a mobile-like experience.
Re: Ubuntu Edge
#153From nearly every perspective, this seems like a no brainer. 1. The hardware they talked about would be better than anything out there now, most likely better than anything in 2014. 2. They mentioned dual boot. If you don't like Ubuntu, you can put on Android and have a better phone than anything out in the next year. 3. You'll get the first Ubuntu production phone. For $600 (today) or $830 (not today?) this is a fre…
I disagree with (1)... that will probably be average hardware for 2014 (for high end devices because lets face it, all high end devices have roughly the same specs).
You make a lot of assumptions with (2) as well. Given Canonical has 0 experience in putting out HW I wouldn't assume a top notch product since details like build quality and materials are important.
(3) would be a negative for me... you would get the slowest, least power efficient, and most app-baron experience.
I agree it's a no brainer though... PASS! $830 is way too much for me to beta test their product for them.
Re: Ubuntu Edge
#154"Although our core business is software for PCs and the cloud, we know the phone industry pretty well too." "We’ve scoured the research labs of the biggest companies and most exciting startups for the latest and greatest mobile technologies to specify the first-generation Edge." Do the people involved actually have hardware experience? That's not clear to me, and the second passage gives the impression of treating a…
Yes, we have collective centuries of hardware experience. No, we do not think a phone is a collection of parts.
Good to hear!
Re: Ubuntu Edge
#155From nearly every perspective, this seems like a no brainer. 1. The hardware they talked about would be better than anything out there now, most likely better than anything in 2014. 2. They mentioned dual boot. If you don't like Ubuntu, you can put on Android and have a better phone than anything out in the next year. 3. You'll get the first Ubuntu production phone. For $600 (today) or $830 (not today?) this is a fre…
I disagree with (1)... that will probably be average hardware for 2014 (for high end devices because lets face it, all high end devices have roughly the same specs). You make a lot of assumptions with (2) as well. Given Canonical has 0 experience in putting out HW I wouldn't assume a top notch product since details like build quality and materials are important. (3) would be a negative for me... you would get the slo…
You think 4 gigs of ram, sapphire display and 128gb ssd are going to be the norm in 2014? Not very likely. That would be just about double the Samsung S4 right now. I don't think it is very likely for 2014. 2015, maybe though.
And I don't think Canonical is going to build the phone but work with someone to do it.
> (3) would be a negative for me... you would get the slowest, least power efficient, and most app-baron experience.
Do you have any data to back that up?
And don't forget that Android had very few apps when first launched. Very few. At least an Ubuntu phone will be able to run all the standard Ubuntu apps, and in converged mode, you'll get all the desktop apps as well, which is awesome.
Re: Ubuntu Edge
#156Can I assume this won't work on Verizon?
We are not currently planning on supporting CDMA.
Re: Ubuntu Edge
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Re: Ubuntu Edge
#158I thought about backing this myself, but then I remembered that it's our propensity as developers to get the best hardware for ourselves that leads to resource-hungry software, which means a poor experience for the less fortunate of our users. In that light, it seems to me that a super-high-end phone like this, particularly one aimed at developers, is obscene. So I won't be buying one of these. Indeed, I'm thinking of deliberately buying a low-end Android phone whenever I eventually decide to switch from my iPhone 4.
Re: Ubuntu Edge
#159I only have one question - battery life? This is the only thing that matters if it becomes a hinderance, and the only thing that doesn't matter if it's not.
Re: Ubuntu Edge
#160This is all cool of course. But will it last more than 2 hours on one charge?