The new. UBUNTU OS is OuTTt**yikes

for mostly our computer-inclined readers.,This potentially will take me away from pure android.... potentially.

Ubuntu is integrating my IT life seamlessly.


Ubuntu for phones is built around the same Linux kernel that Android uses and can use the drivers written for android, but
doesn't use a Java Virtual Machine and also, it supports both ARM and x86 processors.


It's important to note that right now, Canonical tries to find manufacturers to ship with Ubuntu Phone OS, so there's not an actual phone, but only the platform.
Ubuntu phones aren’t yet available for purchase, but we are ready to start working with partners with an aim to releasing phones before the end of 2013.

Ubuntu for phones will make use of the installable web apps available in Ubuntu 12.10. Also, there's a QML-based Ubuntu SDK that developers can use to create native apps that work both on the desktop and the phone and then deliver them in the Ubuntu Software Center.


Ubuntu Phone OS comes with the same technology available in Ubuntu for Android: when docked, the phone turns into a full Ubuntu desktop


Advanced voice control

When running on phones Ubuntu can be controlled by the "head-up display" (Hud) option it introduced last year.

This allows users to type or say what command they want a program to carry out rather than having to click through menus.

"The Hud was born out of the phone design process,"

"The key question we were asking is how do we allow developers to express some of the deeper richer functionality that you get typically in a desktop application when they write for a phone.

"Typically phone and tablet applications are streamlined slimmed-down versions of stuff that might have existed in a more sophisticated complicated form on the PC.

"And in our world where all of the functionality is there... you can invoke the Hud on the phone and talk to it with voice recognition instead of typing in your command - so you could say [for instance] you want a photo in a 1930s style - and our R& effort is to make that natural."