Later today a developer preview of Ubuntu Touch will be made available to download and install on a handful of Nexus devices.
Installable Ubuntu Phone images for the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 handsets will be available to download from next week, Canonical have announced.
Ubuntu has published a set of design guidelines for developers looking to create apps for the Ubuntu Phone.
Who ever decreed that 'patience is a virtue' clearly underestimated the power of 'want' when faced with an Ubuntu Phone.
Reporting on a meeting Shuttleworth attended in New York earlier this week, Michael Hickins of the Wall Street Journal writes that the Ubuntu founder announced plans for the Phone to ship in 'two large geographic markets' come October of this year.
Canonical are to seek community involvement in the design and development of 12 core apps for the Ubuntu Phone. This initiative, they say, will give the wider community 'a fantastic opportunity to create software that could run on millions of handsets.'
The Ubuntu Phone will fail to make 'the tiniest of inroads' against the mobile market dominant players, according to CNN Money's Adrian Covert. But are his pessimistic assumptions sensible? Is he missing the point?
An Ubuntu-powered phone has been unveiled by Mark Shuttleworth in London, today. Calling the product launch a "significant next step in our history", Shuttleworth demoed the device and spoke of Canonical's plans for taking the device to an already saturated mobile market. And the interface of the OS is, possibly more than the brand-name behind it, going to drive adoption.