Ubuntu Linux Phone Debuts—for a Select Few | Linux Today

Ubuntu Linux Phone Debuts—for a Select Few

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Sean Michael Kerner
Feb 9, 2015

The world’s first Ubuntu Linux phone is now available, two years after the effort to bring Ubuntu to phones was first announced by Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor of Ubuntu Linux. The new Ubuntu phone is actually not new hardware; it’s an Ubuntu Linux edition of the BQ Aquaris E4.5 device that is already in the market as an Android smartphone.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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