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.
Minor customisation options have been added to Ubuntu Phone Live Wallpaper - an Android app that apes the look of the Ubuntu mobile lock screen.
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.'
Although it will be a month or so before we can get our hands on an image of the Ubuntu Phone, Android developers have already been making apps using design elements from it...
An installable image of Ubuntu for the Galaxy Nexus handset will be released 'late February', Canonical's Alan Pope has said. The Galaxy Nexus is the main device currently used by Canonical for demoing the OS, which boasts a touch-centric version of the Unity interface. At last weeks press event unveiling the device, Mark Shuttleworth had said that an image would be available 'in the coming weeks'.
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.
News on the fabled Ubuntu Phone is scant on the ground, so users are using their creativity to imagine how it might look.
A recent job posting from Canonical appears to show that the company is serious about its intentions to enter the mobile OS market. In a vacancy titled 'Business Development Manager (Ubuntu Phone OS)', the company are calling for "a business development lead to engage and develop strong relationships with industry partners in the run up to the launch of Ubuntu as a smartphone operating system," so as to, they say, "establish a commercial ecosystem around Ubuntu as a smartphone OS."
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