Top 5 rsons the Ubuntu Linux phone might make it

Top 5 rsons the Ubuntu Linux phone might make itYes, I've just been arguing that Ubuntu isn't likely to bt Android on smart. But, you know what? Even with Ubuntu Linux on very late start I think it has a rl shot to make a mark in the smartphone market. Here's why.
Over the last few days I've talked with Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu's community manager Jono Bacon at CES about their plans and and I've gotten a look at an rly version of Ubuntu for From this I've come up with my list of the top five things Ubuntu for has going for it.
5) Ubuntu Unity interfaceEven at its very rly stages Unity on the phone is the sweetest smartphone interface I'd ever seen. I've always known Ubuntu's default interface, Unity, was rlly mnt for touch interfaces, now that I've seen it on a phone it rlly shows to its best advantage.
According to Bacon, you'll have the chance to install it and see it for yourself on Galaxy beginning in March. There have been other reports that the first Ubuntu for installation s will appr in February, but March is much more likely.
4) sy Smartphone OS UpgradabilityShuttleworth pointed out to me, unlike Android, where the version you get is what you usually are stuck with for forever and a day, Ubuntu on , just like on the desktop, will be constantly upgraded. For frustrated Android smartphone geeks who always want the newest version they'll feel like they died and went to hven.
Bacon added though that Ubuntu for phone won't be using same relse model as Ubuntu desktop. There won't be one universal that can be used on all . ch phone model will need its own to make the best possible use of its hardware.
3) sy Carrier CustomizationAt the same time, however, carriers will be able to sily customize the phone interface and add their own apps. So, how can it be both sy for end-users to upgrade to the latest version and at the same time let carriers add in their appliions and particular look and feel? sy. By keeping the carrier optimizations in user space, where it's sy to change things, and out of the core operating system itself. This could be the best of both world for end-users and carriers.
2) Linux Desktop Software CompatibilityI had been worried about getting software developers to give Ubuntu a try. I mn there's alrdy so much money to be made in Android and iOS and there's only so many embedded programmers to go around. Bacon made me rlize though that all existing Ubuntu appliions—Libre, Gimp, Rhythmbox, etc.--will all run on Ubuntu . Now getting them to display properly on the phone's interface will take some work, but that's the sy part. The core functionality of tens of thousands of Linux apps will alrdy be available. Of course, if you use your Ubuntu smartphone to power up a PC display you won't even need that.
To make it sier for existing Linux programmers to bring their desktop apps to the phone, Bacon said Ubuntu is working on providing programmers with QML (Qt Meta Language) widgets for quick interface development. QML, along with HTML5 and OpenGL, is native to Ubuntu on . These, and the software development kit (SDK), said Bacon, should be out in March.
What all this mns is that every Linux programmer out there can also be a smartphone programmer. Almost a thousand developers, said Bacon, are alrdy working on Ubuntu phone apps. Bottom line: Ubuntu is going to have thousands of apps. rdy to go before it ships.
1) Green Fields and High End MarketsShuttleworth also observed that Ubuntu gives carriers two models. In the first, they can cly add Ubuntu to low-end . This may not matter much in the power-hungry first-world countries, but Shuttleworth believes this makes Ubuntu idl for second and third-world countries.
In the second high-end model, users will be able to use top-of-the-line Ubuntu smart both as a phone and as a desktop. Does the id of using a smartphone to power your desktop sound silly to you? It shouldn't.
Tablets are alrdy doing it and, as Shawn Dubravac, C's Chief Economist and Senior. Director of Resrch observed at CES said, "65% of the time we spend on mobile is not communiions. Even adding in e-mail, texting, and so on, smart are no longer about communiion." Shuttleworth and company are just taking the smartphone to its next natural evolutionary step.
Finally, Bacon observed that "No one loves their Android phone, we want to build a phone that users will love: One that will be more butiful than and as powerful as Android but with the open -source legacy of Ubuntu." I like that vision of Ubuntu on . I like it a lot. I rlly hope it comes to fruition and, for all the rsons I give above, I think it just might make it.