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Re: Canonical branded phone?

 

Hi

Now that Ubuntu for phones is a bit more known to people it might make more sense. Secondly now there really is something to use. Back then it was mostly promiseware...

I would back it up in a beat!

> On 5 Sep 2016, at 19.51, Krzysztof Tataradziński <ktatar156@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 2016-09-05 17:16 GMT+02:00 Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> hi,
>> Am Montag, den 05.09.2016, 16:49 +0200 schrieb Krzysztof Tataradziński:
>> 
>> > Did anyone from Canonical considered to 'simply' develop phone 
>> > themselves alone, order it in factory and sell with Canonical brand?
>> 
>> yes, it was called "Ubuntu Edge" and failed teh crowdfunding
>> campaign...
>> 
> That was some time ago. Market changed, smartphones (low/mid) are cheaper. We don't need super-high-end phone. We need a phone that can be bought all the time (for now, we can't buy any phone (except second hand, etc.).
> And the most important thing - Canonical now have a lot more knowledge about phones than before. Maybe now some costs can be lower? In example OS is more completed (so software part should be cheaper) than few years ago.
> 
> Crowdfunding campaign ver. 2? ;)
> 
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof Tataradziński
>  
>> ciao
>>         oli
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