There are not a lot of Ubuntu Phones in the market today, but the folks over at UBports.com are trying to port Canonical’s Ubuntu Touch OS to as many devices as possible. Given that OnePlus 3 is one of the hot phones in the market right now, the team has confirmed that they will be bringing Ubuntu Touch to the OnePlus flagship as well. This is great news for all OnePlus fans who want to see how the OS will run on the powerful OnePlus 3.

Mr. Gripsgard, part of the UBports team has ordered the phone and will start on the development and porting of the OS as soon as the phone arrives. Considering the top-end specifications of the device, especially the 6GB RAM on board, it would be interesting to see how the Convergence feature of Ubuntu works on the device. To remind you, “Convergence” is a pretty cool feature on the Ubuntu Touch OS, wherein you can connect your smartphone to any monitor and Ubuntu Desktop interface will load up on the screen. So, basically, your phone will transform into a desktop environment when connected to an external display.  All apps running on the phone will pop on the monitor seamlessly and even when you disconnect, the apps like music or video which was playing on the monitor will appear on the phone.

To recap, the OnePlus 3 comes with the Snapdragon 820 chipset on board with 6GB of RAM as standard and 64GB of internal storage without a MicroSD card slot. There will be a 5.5-inch 1080p display on board and a 3000mAh battery with the company’s own Dash charging tech. At the back, the phone comes with a 16MP camera with OIS, while up front, you have an 8MP front facing shooter. If you want to read the full specs of the OnePlus 3, check out this article.

So, would you like to see Ubuntu Touch OS running on your OnePlus 3? Check out their page from here.

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Meizu and Ubuntu have a long-standing relationship, with the Chinese manufacturer being one of the few smartphone makers to release Ubuntu editions of its flagships. Looks like this year too, we will see a Ubuntu based smartphone from Meizu, most likely the Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu Edition.

The company has released a new teaser which shows some kind of partnership between Meizu and Ubuntu. Considering the tradition of the company of releasing Ubuntu-powered smartphones at MWC, this teaser is most likely for the launch of the Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu Edition. Last year, we saw Meizu MX4 running Ubuntu at MWC 2015.

This isn’t the first time we are hearing about a Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu edition model. At the start of this month, a couple of pictures of the Pro 5 running on the Ubuntu OS were leaked, which kind of hinted at such a collaboration. Now, it looks like the company is going to make the Pro 5 Ubuntu version official at MWC 2015. Usually, the specs of the device remain the same as before. So, in this Ubuntu edition, we can expect only the software to be different.

Meizu Pro 5 was one of the most powerful flagships of 2015 and it would be interesting to see Ubuntu OS on top of this device. The teaser shows that the company will announce something on February 22, the first day of MWC.

So, could Pro 5 be the Ubuntu-powered smartphone that we were waiting for? Let me know your thoughts.

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In the past few months, we came across several reports that said Meizu was planning to release an Ubuntu Edition of its Meizu Mx4 flagship smartphone. Finally, yesterday, the company released a teaser poster for the Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition confirming the previous reports. The company revealed that it would showcase the device at MWC 2015 to be held in Barcelona, Spain.

Today, the company released further details about the phone. Meizu revealed that it would be present at MWC at Hall 8.1 – App Planet Stand 8.1G41. So, those who will be present at the event can check out the device at the above mentioned booth.

Yesterday, the company confirmed that there will be three different variants of the device namely Flyme OS, YunOS and Ubuntu OS. We have already seen the Flyme OS and Alibaba’s YunOS powered variants and now we can finally take a look at the new Ubuntu OS powered MX4.

Ubuntu is quite different than iOS or Android OS. It uses a concept called ‘Scopes’ for navigating through various features. So, instead of relying on apps for different functions, you can just swipe through different scopes to get to the required feature. Its pretty interesting, however, apart from the BQ Aquarius E4.5 Ubuntu Edition, there isn’t any Ubuntu powered phones available in the market at the moment.

Meizu had previously shown off the Ubuntu powered Meizu MX4, however the device didn’t receive much attention. So, it would be interesting to see whether fans like the new Ubuntu OS and are willing to go with this OS instead of the traditional Android powered Flyme Version.

Expect more details at MWC.

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Nokia Lumia 1020 was an interesting device. It came with a very large sensor at the back, a 41MP camera which could click pictures better than most other smartphones in the market. Like all other Lumia devices, it ran Microsoft’s Windows Mobile OS.

However, looks like Lumia 1020 can run Ubuntu OS as well, atleast one of the Weibo users proved that it was possible. Team Ubuntu which is usually behind a number of leaks online, released some pictures earlier today claiming that they made their Lumia 1020 run Ubuntu.

As you can see in the pictures added in the post, the Lumia 1020 is running on Ubuntu OS which is very similar to the desktop version that we have seen in the past few years. The menu bar is on the left, which is the same as the taskbar on Windows desktop while the settings bar is on top which has the volume level indicator, Wi-Fi as well as the settings option. If you have ever used any of the recent Ubuntu desktop releases, you would see that the OS is very similar to the one shown in the pictures.

We still don’t know whether everything works on this Lumia 1020. It would be interesting to see how the OS handles the large 41MP sensor at the back and whether the pictures captured are of similar quality as that of the Windows running device. We hope to see more details soon.

Ubuntu for mobile isn’t a new concept. Canonical, the company behind the OS has been trying to release Ubuntu powered smartphones for the past one year, however the launch has been delayed so far. According to the latest news, the first true Ubuntu powered smartphone will release in Europe in the second week of February. This budget phone will be sold directly to customers via the Spanish carrier Bq.

For those interested in this new OS for mobile platforms, currently, there is a way to try out Ubuntu. You can install the OS on a number of Google’s Nexus devices. Some of the supported phones include the old Nexus 4, Nexus 7 2013 tablet and the Nexus 10.

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Ubuntu Touch will be available for any devices, including Smartphone, Tablet and PC. Mark Shuttelworth as the founder of Canonical has claimed that the Ubuntu Touch will be more better than Windows Phone operating system and iOS.

The Ubuntu developers is doing a hard effort to realize their idea about the total convergence for several years. Microsoft and Apple is doing the same thing, you will see that Windows and iOS both seemed also refer to the same direction of the total convergence.

Mark Shuttleworth is the first person who talk about the convergence, and Ubuntu is certainly be able to provide nore better capabilities that other platform since Ubuntu is available for free.

Here is the video of Mark Shuttleworth talking about Ubuntu Touch OS:

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Canonical is the company behind the Ubuntu Edge smartphone, and they trying to collect the mony through crowdfunding project. Unfortunately, they’ve failed to obtain the funds.

In the LeWeb conference that held recently, Shuttleworth said that high end Ubuntu Touch OS smartphone will come in 2014. Shuttleworth  says that they have acquired a partner to build Ubuntu Touch smartphone. In fact, not only one partner, but the have four partner as well.

Unfortunately Shuttleworth not to mention the name of their partner to the public. He just said that these brands have a product that has spread all over the world, either in business or consumer market segments in general. We assume that one or two partner is come from Chinese manufacturer

The emergence of smartphones Ubuntu Touch was going to give the high competition in the mobile segment. Moreover, the emergence of competitors Android mobile platforms, such as Tizen OS, Sailfish OS or Firefox OS.

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Since Canonical announced their new Ubuntu mobile phone operating system, those new OS is attracting  many developers and supporters. Although this phone may be to come out in October.

Fortunately, we got a good news today that Ubuntu ROM is open and ready to download for developers, the first batch is available for: Galaxy Nexus, Nexus Nexus 7 and Nexus 10.

According to official Ubuntu download the preview version of the system for developers and for test only, so this is not a stable release for your daily basis. The Ubuntu developers Note, brush into Ubuntu will clear all the data of the original Android system and is unrecoverable.

If you want to trying this Ubuntu OS, you can download here, and do with your own risk!

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Smartphone with Ubuntu operating system will certainly be available in the market starting in October 2013. It was submitted directly by Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical Ltd. at an event in New York, recently.

Ubuntu is a Linux-based operating systems have been used in a number of servers and other infrastructure in most IT companies. The operating system will now be available on all lines of mobile devices, including phones and tablets. Ubuntu smartphones feature will also be connected to a keyboard or other accessories wirelessly.

In addition, Ubuntu also has a Windows-based application streaming server that can connect corporate users. That way, users can easily access all the data only through a small device.

“You can divide Windows applications to the desktop phone,” said Shuttleworth.

Ubuntu for mobile built using native applications, which means that the developers simply create an application, because it can also run on a PC. This course will allow users when switching from PC to mobile devices. OS was also has gesture technology for navigation or flipping the pages.

No mention of what smartphone vendors will run this Ubuntu OS. But once the application developers can already trying through the Samsung Galaxy Nexus.

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Canonical as the Ubuntu developer company says that the Google Nexus user will be able to ported Ubuntu OS for smartphone soon, that’s mean the Google Nexus smartphone can running Ubuntu OS for smartphone.

As reported by the OMG Ubuntu, Canonical Engineering Manager Alan Pope informed, the company will launch an Ubuntu image to download. The Image is intended to Galaxy Nexus handset and can be used at the end of February. Not yet known when exactly, but estimated at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2013 which be helds between February 25th to 28th, 2013.

Ubuntu OS is designed for smartphones, has the swiping gesture, is used to navigate and move the page like the one on the touch screen in general. While the main features of the phone such as make calls, send messages, and other cameras have reportedly been working well.

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