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Canonical wants to crowd-fund its Ubuntu desktop/smartphone hybrid

Canonical, the company behind the open-source Ubuntu platform, has announced plans for a smartphone that transforms into a desktop PC.

The Ubuntu Edge will have a 4.5-inch display and will connect to any HDMI monitor. All the specifications are subject to change but a multi-core processor and 128GB of storage are expected.

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Operating Systems: a new set of Davids emerge to challenge the incumbent Goliaths

Podcast - 22nd July 2013

This panel discussion about new mobile operating systems was recorded at Mobile Monday London on 15th July 2013.

It's chaired by Geoff Blaber of CCS Insight with contributions from the GSMA's Alex Sinclair, David Wood of Delta Wisdom (and formerly of Symbian), Andreas Constantinou from Vision Mobile, Victor Palau of Canonical and Christian Heilmann from Mozilla Corporation.

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Results from EE, new phones from LG and HTC... and free WiFi from Barclays

Podcast - 20th February 2013

We start this week's podcast with financial results from EE - along with new phones from LG and HTC.

There's also a merger between mobile browser companies, mobile security from Vodafone, free WiFi from Barclays bank, a preview of Ubuntu for smartphones... and much more.

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Last week at The Fonecast: 18th February 2013

There's only one MWC...

Mark Bridge writes:

As the final days before this year’s Mobile World Congress approach, we discover there are two types of scheduled news announcements from the wireless telecoms industry.

There are the announcements delayed until MWC begins because the company wants to be part of the buzz at Barcelona. And there are the announcements made in the fortnight beforehand because they don’t want their story to get lost.

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Ubuntu smartphone operating system to preview on 21st February

The touchscreen Developer Preview version of forthcoming mobile operating system Ubuntu will be published on Thursday 21st February, enabling mobile developers with a Galaxy Nexus or Nexus 4 smartphone to run the new platform.

Canonical, the business team behind the Ubuntu project, will also be ‘flashing’ phones to Ubuntu at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from 25th to 28th February.

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