Ubuntu for Android mixing it up
As the popularity of the smartphone grows furiously, more people are leaving their pc’s behind to collect a bit of dust. Albiet, these are not developers or designers but not everyone is shackled to their desktop computer and laptops like some of us are. With the ability to pay bills, scan coupons or travel reservations via bar code on your phone, qr codes, Facebook on mobile, unlock and start up your zip car, many people are realizing they don’t really need a pc most of the time. Ubuntu for Android mixing it up with an OS sharing a single kernel for both your PC and your high-end smartphone because “In every dual-core phone, there’s a PC trying to get out.”
Canonical, demonstrated an Android phone running the Ubuntu operating system at the Mobile World Congress. This was a normal Android device by any definition but once you plugged it into a monitor, it becomes a full Ubuntu desktop. Add in a dash of a roll up keyboard and a sprinkle of unfolding mouse and you have a full pc that you can theoretically carry in your pocket and plug into your hotel TV. Neat! As technology keeps maturing, 4G speeds and multi-core mobile devices, tomorrow may be more useable then you might think. The only downfall is that technology is moving so quickly, everything becomes a throw away…
-www.ubuntu.com/devices/android
“The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Manifesto: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customize and alter their software in whatever way they see fit.”
-ubuntu.com
