In the video attached at the end of the article, you can see how easy is to run a full-featured Ubuntu MATE operating system on an Ubuntu Touch-powered Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition smartphone.
Just like you, we had our doubts when reading the title of the tweet posted by Martin Wimpress on Twitter, but it would appear that you can now run the Ubuntu MATE desktop on top of an Ubuntu Phone.
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