Smart Ubuntu

Smart Ubuntu - A Smart Phone with Ubuntu Operating System

A smart phone with the mobile edition of Ubuntu OS( operating system) was launched on 19th of February 2015.This is a production of BQ , a Spanish company who produces mobile phones. This smart phone model is BQ Aquaris E4.5.

Aquaris Smart Phone features

• Display of  4.5 Inches
• Tek Quad core processor with 1.3GHz of speed
• 1GB RAM
• 8GB Storage
• Dual SIM slot with Micro SD card

This Mobile OS of Ubuntu is special because none of the existing smart phones have this structure. It has the ability to launch apps using HTML5 programming language or QML code which is inherently on Ubuntu OS. Unlike other smart phones it does not display the icons of those apps as tiles they remain hidden. Instead of displaying them it has swipe-based themed card system which are called Scoops.

Home screen of this Smart phone is called Today Scoop which contains frequently used widgets by the user. By swiping this scoop user can switch to other scoops or dial a number. Producers of this device or service providers can build their own scoops. But there are number of default scoops.

Nearby - User can keep frequently used maps such as google maps.

Music - User can keep a preferred list of music tracks provided by services such as Sound Cloud Online service.

Video - User can store a list of video links provided by video sharing services such as YouTube.

Photos - User can store a preferred list of image links where you can directly access those images which are on social media such as flicker, Picasa, Facebook.

Apps - User can keep all the other apps downloaded from other providers as well as camera and calendar.

The canonical, a company in Britain which currently distributes the Ubuntu OS for free, does not expect a higher scale income from this launch. The founder, Mark Shuttleworth says that the existing Ubuntu users know the nature of this OS so that they will tend to use this smart phone too. Currently there are about 20 million Ubuntu users around the world.