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Message #22196
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:
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> 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:
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>> > Did anyone from Canonical considered to 'simply' develop phone
>> > themselves alone, order it in factory and sell with Canonical brand?
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>> yes, it was called "Ubuntu Edge" and failed teh crowdfunding
>> campaign...
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> 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.
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> Crowdfunding campaign ver. 2? ;)
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> Best regards,
> Krzysztof Tataradziński
>
>> ciao
>> oli
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