What is special about UbuntuPhoneOS?

The mobile industry already has iOS, Android, WindowsPhone, BlackBerry, Jolla, WebOS, FirefoxOS, and Tizen operating systems. The first four have dominated the entire market, and the last four have yet to rise. Now there is another unknown player in the mobile market: Canonical just announced its mobile operating system UbuntuPhoneOS, he attempted to simulate Windows 8 to create an operating system that spans mobile phones, tablets, and desktops. But what's special about it?

The mobile industry already has iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Jolla, WebOS, Firefox OS, and Tizen operating systems. The first four have dominated the entire market, the last four were yet to rise. Now there is another unknown player in the mobile market: Canonical just announced its mobile operating system Ubuntu Phone OS, he attempted to simulate Windows 8 to create an operating system that spans mobile phones, tablets, and desktops. But what's special about it?

Ubuntu Phone is planned to be launched by the end of 2013 or early 2014. Entry-level hardware requires 1 Ghz Cortex A9 and MB to 1 GB memory, high-end hardware requires a 4-core A9 or Intel Atom processor, and at least 1 GB memory. It uses the Android kernel and driver to be compatible with existing hardware, but does not use Java virtual machine. The UI Layer is based on QML and supports native and Web applications. The Ubuntu April 2014 image released in 14.04 will work on both the mobile phone tablet and the desktop. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, said that Ubuntu is unique in the integration of mobile phones and desktop PCs. mobile phone users obtain the complete PC functions. If applications submitted by developers to Ubuntu Software Centre are compatible with mobile phones and desktops, it can be released on both platforms at the same time. Shuttleworth said that another major advantage of Ubuntu is that in recent years, game publishers Valve and developer Unity have begun to release and develop games for Ubuntu. Although Ubuntu and Android are both open-source systems, Canonical indicates that the development process will be more transparent and open.