ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[John Nelson <thatguruguy@xxxxxxxxx>]

I would expect that we would start seeing cheaper phones that could handle
Ubuntu Touch by the end of the year. You may also be interested in this
video, in which a representative from Allwinner (a maker of less expensive
ARM-based processors for cheap tablets and phones) talks about the fact
that they're working with Ubuntu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1WJzDT7k4k

The quote comes towards the end of the interview, which was shot this past
Mobile World Congress in February, 2013.


On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Ryan Walmsley <ryanteck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> I was wondering if Ubuntu will have / support *Budget Phones* (Being £100
> or less),
>
> The main budget phones I have seen before are the Samsung Galaxy Ace &
> Galaxy Mini along with the Europa being the cheapest out of all of them.
>
> Today Vodafone in the UK released a new budget phone (Details @
> http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/mobile-phone/vodafone-smart-mini-black#/specifications)
> . It seems to have a 1Ghz Arm chip with 512MB of RAM. But it runs 4.1,
>
> So my question is will it be possible for any budget phones? When first
> announced I think I saw the recommended being a quad core with a minimum of
> a dual core both with 1GB of RAM.
>
> Unfortunately I can't buy the Vodafone Smart Mini as I don't have the
> money but possibly someone else may want to buy it to try and port Ubuntu
> Phone to it?
>
>
> *Thanks -*
> *
> *
> *Ryan Walmsley*
> *
> *
> *Email: *Ryanteck@xxxxxxxxx
> *Skype:* Ryanteck
> Website:* Http://ryanteck.org.uk*
>
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