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  First look at new Ubuntu phones RS Wood  <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-26 20:55 +0000
    Re: First look at new Ubuntu phones Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-26 17:32 -0800
      Re: First look at new Ubuntu phones RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-28 15:41 +0000

#1009 — First look at new Ubuntu phones

From the "hope it's purple and orange" department:
Title: First Look at the First Two Ubuntu Handsets
Author: ArsTechnica
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 12:13:47 -0500
Link: http://www.linux.com/news/embedded-mobile/mobile-linux/764083-first-look-at-the-first-two-ubuntu-handsets/

Last week Canonical announced that Ubuntu would ship on handsets from two
companies, BQ and Meizu, later this year. This week at MWC in Barcelona the
hardware was on display—or at least, prototype hardware was.

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On 2014-02-26 20:55:42 +0000, RS Wood said:

> From the "hope it's purple and orange" department:
> Title: First Look at the First Two Ubuntu Handsets
> Author: ArsTechnica
> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 12:13:47 -0500
> Link: 
> http://www.linux.com/news/embedded-mobile/mobile-linux/764083-first-look-at-the-first-two-ubuntu-handsets/ 
> 
> 
> Last week Canonical announced that Ubuntu would ship on handsets from two
> companies, BQ and Meizu, later this year. This week at MWC in Barcelona the
> hardware was on display—or at least, prototype hardware was.

I wonder what kind of spyware Ubuntu Phone ships with.  I am guessing 
they have partnered with Amazon at least.

I wrote off Ubuntu once they introduced their spyware.  Shuttleworth's 
comment that went something like "We already have root" was the final 
straw.

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#1101

> I wonder what kind of spyware Ubuntu Phone ships with.  I am guessing 
> they have partnered with Amazon at least.
> 
> I wrote off Ubuntu once they introduced their spyware.  Shuttleworth's 
> comment that went something like "We already have root" was the final 
> straw.
> 

Mark and Canonical have certainly been doing a good job of pissing off
their clients and user-base in the name of "innovation."  I'm skeptical
of them, to say the least.  But where phone interface software is
concerned, I'm more worried they'll just barf on the user experience -
I'd be interested in trying one of these things.

There's an article out there recently by some guy who tried out the new
Firefox phone and found it awful.  Unusable, in fact.  I wonder if
that's not what Ubuntu will do too.

Guess I'd give them a try, but my expectations are set low.

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