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[Jochen Breuer <brejoc@xxxxxxxxx>]

A fair phone with Ubuntu Touch would be great. Seems like they have 69% pre
orders reached. But there are still 14 days left. I really hope they will
reach their goal of 5000 pre orders.
Am 18.01.2013 23:17 schrieb "Bruno Girin" <brunogirin@xxxxxxxxx>:

> On 18/01/13 15:16, Thibaut Brandscheid wrote:
> > For me Ubuntu has always been more then a brand, it's a philosophy of
> > respect. We all know that currently there is nearly no IT product out
> > there produced under fair conditions. This will not change over night
> > but there is now a possibility arising in ~2013 to get a fair trade
> > phone and the producers of that phone are toying with the idea to
> > support Ubuntu Mobile:
> > "Another option we are currently looking into is to launch the phone
> > with Android, but fully prepare the FairPhone for Ubuntu."
>
> Reading the post in full, it sounds to me like they're talking about
> Ubuntu on Android, not Ubuntu Phone. But then the link to the BBC
> article is about Ubuntu Phone, which is made even more confusing by the
> headline.
>
> Generally speaking and from what I've seen in other places, the way
> Ubuntu for Android and Ubuntu Phone have been described in videos means
> that quite a lot of people are unaware that there is a difference.
>
> Anyway, FairPhone definitely sounds like a hardware vendor that it would
> be worth talking to. They have staff in Amsterdam and London so it
> shouldn't be too difficult.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bruno
>
>
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