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[Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You seem to have missed the point entirely. If you want an Ubuntu Phone,
then there are phones already available on the market. Supported models
now, are LG Nexux 4 and Samsung Nexus Galaxy. But there are many more
unofficial ports.

The reason for the Ubuntu Edge was never to win the market or anything like
that. Canonical isn't a hardware company. The whole point was to create a
phone that was much more powerful than any phone that could realistically
be launched as a commercial product. It is supposed to be a means to try
out _future_ hardware and to push all boundaries. Even a very low-spec
smart-phone that you describe, would have to be much more expensive than
comparable models on the market, simply because of the low number of
devices that could be sold.

If what you want is for Canonical to become a hardware company and compete
with Samsung and Apple, then I don't think that's realistic. It's much
better to attract existing manufacturers who are already in the hardware
game.