First Ubuntu smart phones hits shore of Europe

Above Entry-level Android smartphone the Bq Aquaris E4.5 has been picked to receive an Ubuntu makeover

          The first smartphone to feature Canonical’s Ubuntu Touch operating system has been announced for Europe, coming from Spanish telecoms company Bq as a tweaked variant of the company’s existing Aquaris E4.5 smartphone for Android.

          While Canonical’s Ubuntu operating system originally launched as a fork of Debian, the company behind the software has long been looking to diversify. An icon-heavy interface originally designed for low-resolution netbook devices became the Unity interface of modern releases, and has since been split into standard Ubuntu, Ubuntu Touch and Ubuntu for Phone services. 

           The latter builds on the company’s previous work on Ubuntu for Android, a since-cancelled project which saw Android handsets receiving the ability to dual-boot with Ubuntu Linux. The software was first formally unveiled as part of Canonical’s work on Ubuntu Edge, an extremely high-end smartphone running Ubuntu for Phones and featuring the ability to connect to external peripherals. This device, Canonical hoped, would one day replace laptops for mobile workers. However, an attempt to raise a whopping $32 million to build the device via crowd-funding service, Indiegogo, fell far short of the company’s goal

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