[dropcaps style=’2′]Canonical’s Ubuntu Touch phone OS journey has been a long one, and now its extending considerably further as the open-source programming organisation makes a play for the concepts future. [/dropcaps]
[image src=’http://fnx.network/fnxnetwork/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ubuntutouchonedge2013.jpg’ width=’420′ height=’338′ title=’Ubuntu Touch OS. Source: Canonical’ align=’right’] Community Manager of Canonical, Jono Bacon, conceded in an online Q&A that the first Ubuntu Touch OS cell phone for vendors is unrealistic to show up until one year from now.
Bacon said that he of course would like to see Ubuntu on phones in the carrier stores, but that it is a lengthy, difficult experience however with numerous segments to figure out stopping the OS from being released this year.
He also noted that Ubuntu run phones will probably first be introduced for low-cost range phones. With respect to the purchaser, the perfect user for Ubuntu Touch today is somebody who needs a trustworthy phone however does not oblige or require a huge list of applications skewing from the standard offerings.
Canonical wants to send the message out to vendors; they are coming. So for the time being it appears that Ubuntu is still on track to distribute a cell phone as Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth guaranteed in December 2013… just a little later.