Linux-based Ubuntu for phones has been recently revealed by Canonical. The OS, which up till now had been used to power desktops, will be optimized for handsets. The accurate release date has not been officially declared at present.
Ubuntu has come up with various customizable options and bids farewell to the usual clutter on the user interface. It has dumped the usage of buttons and taken refuge mostly in edge swipes. Every corner of the handset stands for a gesture. Now this could be quite helpful as far as accessing apps quickly is concerned.
A short swipe from the left should lead users to their favorite apps, whereas with a long drag from the left hand side, they’ll find all the tools that are already open. Sweeping their finger from right to left will lead to the most recently used utility and after doing that, another swipe from the same side would suffice to open the one utilized before the last app. The video that we have embedded below should help get a clearer picture.
The software places profound emphasis on the search option. In case users wish to find a person, it hunts for results from various sources including email accounts, the contacts list as well as folks and followers from social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Even rummaging for multimedia will not just be limited to the content within the phone.
People will be able to stack, search and share photos with the help of the gallery. Moreover, every snapshot immediately finds its way into the Ubuntu One cloud account of the user. This allows viewing the captured images from various iOS, Android and Windows devices. Native applications such as telephony, voicemail, messages, MMS, email, web browsing, music and photography are obviously part of the platform.
High-end handsets will hold the capability to become full PCs when docked and hooked up with a keyboard and mouse. The software had earlier done something similar with smartphones wherein, the phone continues to run Android and portrays Canonical’s desktop platform on an external display when docked.
Ubuntu for phones will be made available for entry-level smartphones running at least a 1GHz Cortex A9 processor with 512MB of RAM. On the other hand, high-range handsets with a quad core A9 or an Intel Atom CPU along with 1GB of RAM can also make use of the OS.