Will the Ubuntu mobile phone system become the fourth largest mobile phone system?

Ubuntu developer Canonical has released a smart phone code-Edge. It is not so much about release as the establishment of this project because it needs to raise at least $32 million (within 30 days) to officially start the project ). Ubuntu's first mobile phone Edge is designed in a square shape. Its body size is 64 & times; 9 & times; 124mm. It is equipped with a 4.5-inch sapphire screen with a resolution of 1280 & times; 720 pixels, equipped with multi-core processors, the memory combination looks fierce, that is, 4 GBRAM +

Ubuntu developer Canonical has released a smart phone code-Edge. It is not so much about release as the establishment of this project because it needs to raise at least $32 million (within 30 days) to officially start the project ). Ubuntu's first mobile phone Edge is a square shape design with a body size of 64x9x124mm. It is equipped with a 4.5-inch sapphire screen with a resolution of 1280x720 pixels and is equipped with a multi-core processor, the memory combination looks fierce, that is, 4 gb ram + GB storage space.

In addition, the camera is equipped with a 8 million-pixel front camera (2 million pixels). It runs dual systems, such as Ubuntu mobile OS and Android. It also provides functions such as accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, and barometer, and supports LTE 4G networks.

The price is about $600 (equivalent to RMB 3680) and the shipping time is January 1, May 2014.

At present, Ubuntu has received support from major carriers around the world, the list of Ubuntu operator consultants includes eight operators, including Deutsche Telekom, Everything Everywhere, Korea Telecom, Italy Telecom, LG UPlus, Portugal Telecom, and SK Telecom, all from non-US regions. With Verizon, the probability of Ubuntu mobile phones logging into the United States has increased. Currently, China Unicom and Smartfren are confirmed to be members of the Advisory Group.

This means that the company will work with these members to promote the development of the Ubuntu operating system.

Ubuntu system advantages: gesture operation + PC desktop integration as a high-profile new mobile phone system, the biggest feature of Ubuntu system is the combination of gesture operation and mobile PC. Its gesture Operations almost enable the mobile phone to have no virtual buttons. Both the left and right sides of the border are added with the gesture operation. Sliding the left border will display a sidebar, which contains some common applications. You can customize this section in the official version. This should be a very necessary setup for single-handed operations. At the same time, we can also see that in the future, the Ubuntu system may develop towards large screen mobile phones such as 5 inch. Sliding the right border will bring up the previous application. Whether it is a call or a game surfing the internet, it will quickly enter the previous closed application. This greatly reduces the memory pressure and requires only one response action.

At the same time, the high-end Ubuntu mobile phone has the ability to convert to the desktop system. When the mobile phone is connected to an external monitor through the base, the desktop mode is automatically started. You can directly operate the Ubuntu system on the desktop, as if you were operating an ordinary Ubuntu computer.

In terms of application ecosystem cultivation, BlackBerry 10 provides four application development and transformation methods. Ubuntu also adopts a similar approach to maximize application source expansion. The Ubuntu ecosystem depends heavily on Web applications.

Canonical said that Ubuntu will adopt both web applications and native applications. This means that you can use all applications developed based on HTML5 technology, such as Facebook, Google Maps, Spotify, and Twitter. The Ubuntu mobile phone operating system will also provide developers with a complete software development kit (SDK ).

Canonical promises to provide deep API interfaces for web applications in the Ubuntu mobile operating system so that they can be installed and run independently in the system like native applications and use various system services. It also indicates that web applications built based on PhoneGap and other methods should be able to run directly in Ubuntu. Therefore, the Ubuntu mobile phone operating system may not lack application support.

For Android with the same origin (both of which are based on Linux), Ubuntu is indeed a must-have competitor.

However, Ubuntu has always been a relatively loose and weak team, otherwise it will not need to raise at least $32 million within 30 days as the project's start-up funds.

A netizen commented on Ubuntu: The company is not inferior to Google and apple in terms of technology and innovation capabilities, but lacks some business genes.

Even if we do not divide the mobile phone system into four categories, it will also be a feature that is sought after by small users. Before the start of this year's MWC exhibition, Canonical, the Ubuntu mobile operating system developer, announced the browser version of the touch developer, at the same time, ROM packages of Google Nexus and other mobile phones are released. This allows us to see another competitor in the mobile operating system. So can this well-known new system be shared in the market? Will it be the fourth largest mobile operating system?

Zhu yesheng, Investment Director of Angel venture village, once published an article saying that in the current market structure, there is a decent operating system, obviously not enough to stand out and possess a certain influential market share, we also need the support of an ecosystem, the most important of which is the support of mobile phone manufacturers.

At present, although Android has the most support manufacturers and the largest market share, these manufacturers are always confused and hope to have one more choice.

In fact, the road that these mobile phone manufacturers want to take is Apple's road. They can have an excellent, closed, and unique operating system like iOS, however, since iOS has accumulated, accumulated, and invested heavily in R & D for many years, it is hard for Samsung and Huawei to achieve it in a short time.

Second, mobile phone manufacturers want to have an open-source system that is equally good for Android, and do not want it to be in the hands of powerful controllers like Google. There is a choice that can compete with Google.

Therefore, from the intention of mobile phone manufacturers, there is a certain opportunity to become a backup operating system for Ubuntu outside Android. However, in addition to the above competition, such as Tizen And Sailfish, it has three difficulties.

1. consumers' habits

Consumers have formed their own habits in the Development of smartphones over the past few years. Therefore, it is hard to predict whether full gesture operations on Ubuntu will be favored by consumers.

2. Path dependencies between mobile phone manufacturers and application developers

Mobile phone manufacturers and application developers are used to the Android ecosystem. To create a new ecosystem, Ubuntu must break the original path dependency, which may take a short time, android will respond to the competition.

3. Large investment

It was not easy to build an operating system. Intel and Nokia had previously jointly built the MeeGo platform, but eventually ended in failure. It requires a lot of capital investment, manpower investment and time accumulation. Ubuntu's current fund scale and personnel scale are relatively small, and whether it can support its sustainable development is also a big problem.

It may seem very difficult for Ubuntu to shine brightly and drive together with Android. Maybe it will repeat its fate in the PC field and become a distinctive mobile operating system that is only sought after by a small number of users.

Related reading:

Ubuntu Edge mobile http://www.linuxidc.com/Linux/2013-07/87762.htm

Ubuntu Edge mobile rendering diagram appeared in advance before the Canonical Conference http://www.linuxidc.com/Linux/2013-07/87751.htm

Suspected first Ubuntu System Cell Phone Edge exposure http://www.linuxidc.com/Linux/2013-07/87713.htm

Trademark application documents imply that the first Ubuntu mobile phone is called EDGE http://www.linuxidc.com/Linux/2013-07/87497.htm

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