It's been a few years of development but the first smartphone running Ubuntu will soon reach the market. BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition will hit store shelves starting next week although it does not resemble the Canonical promised.
Canonical, the group behind the Linux distribution, Ubuntu, launched a public campaign fundraising in the summer of 2013. The campaign aimed to raise the $ 32 million to fund the creation of Ubuntu Edge, a leading smartphone that could run system Ubuntu operating. The campaign reached only up to the amount of $ 12.8 million but that did not deter the company.
The BQ Aquaris E4.5 is a smartphone running Ubuntu. The mid-level spec uses a 4.5-inch diagonal screen resolution of 540 × running 960 pixels, quad-core Cortex-A7 MediaTek running at 1.3GHz frequency with capacity 1GB RAM, 8GB space internal storage and 8MP camera sensor.
Phone price will be around 170 €, very cheap compared to Ubuntu Edge that hit the market at a price of $ 695.
The device will go on sale starting next week for some mobile operators in Europe and the sale will expand soon.
Source: techcafe.ro
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