Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution is rumored to be holding LG Electronics to make tablets and smart phones based Ubuntu operating system. This joint project will encourage the use of open source Linux platform on mobile devices.
Ubuntu's presence in the mobile device operating system is going to add a lively kind of platform that plays in the mobile market. Currently, there are already Android, Symbian, Meego, IOS, Blackberry OS, Windows Phone, and Meltemi who fought in the mobile device market.
Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth as a speaker at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando November 2011 and declared the target set can be used Ubuntu on mobile phones and tablets in the next two years.
As quoted from ExtremeTech, such devices is not yet clear what this would be made by Canonical. Although the official blog of Linux states that this device will have an exclusive design concepts Ubuntu.
However, according to sources who declined to be named said that the device to be created is a tablet that can function as a GSM phone. In addition, these devices will have a 4.5-inch landscape display and wearing Texas OMAP processors.
The operating system will use Armbuntu (not the last name, can still be changed) and have the ability to run Android applications as done in the BlackBerry Playbook.
Although rumored to be holding Canonical LG Electronics to manufacture tablet devices and smart phones, Communications Director of Canonical Gerry Carr hastily denied. "We have no plans to announce something with LG next week," Carr said.
However, he added that in any event the Consumer Electronic Show (CES), Canonical is always giving new developments and devices that are built on Ubuntu. Various Ubuntu-based projects will also be presented at the annual event.
However, it does not mean that Canonical will announce its mobile devices at the CES. It would provide information about it soon.
Ubuntu's presence in the mobile device operating system is going to add a lively kind of platform that plays in the mobile market. Currently, there are already Android, Symbian, Meego, IOS, Blackberry OS, Windows Phone, and Meltemi who fought in the mobile device market.
Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth as a speaker at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando November 2011 and declared the target set can be used Ubuntu on mobile phones and tablets in the next two years.
As quoted from ExtremeTech, such devices is not yet clear what this would be made by Canonical. Although the official blog of Linux states that this device will have an exclusive design concepts Ubuntu.
However, according to sources who declined to be named said that the device to be created is a tablet that can function as a GSM phone. In addition, these devices will have a 4.5-inch landscape display and wearing Texas OMAP processors.
The operating system will use Armbuntu (not the last name, can still be changed) and have the ability to run Android applications as done in the BlackBerry Playbook.
Although rumored to be holding Canonical LG Electronics to manufacture tablet devices and smart phones, Communications Director of Canonical Gerry Carr hastily denied. "We have no plans to announce something with LG next week," Carr said.
However, he added that in any event the Consumer Electronic Show (CES), Canonical is always giving new developments and devices that are built on Ubuntu. Various Ubuntu-based projects will also be presented at the annual event.
However, it does not mean that Canonical will announce its mobile devices at the CES. It would provide information about it soon.
