The Spanish manufacturer of smartphones bq brings the beginning of 2015 the first smartphone with Ubuntu in Europe. That says a ceo of Canonical. The Chinese manufacturer Meizu will be Ubuntu smartphone only in the own homeland release.
The release is scheduled for early 2015, and the software is now ready; Canonical has a rtm version of Ubuntu for smartphones manufacturers sent, writes PC World on the basis of an interview with a senior official of the mobile version of the Ubuntu-developer.
Canonical has not said when the smartphone from bq with Ubuntu is released, but the chief keeps it on the ‘early in 2015’, which it would seem probable that the device within a few months on the market. The model of Meizu appeared around the same period, but only in China.
The site OmgUbuntu spent last week the expected specifications and price to the outside of the bq model. It was going to be a omgekatte version of the Android handset Aquaris e4.5, with 4.5″screen with 960×540 pixels and a quad-core-soc from MediaTek. The device would not cost more than 149 euros.
Canonical announced the version for smartphones of its Linux distro in January 2013. The first stable version was published about a year ago. With Ubuntu there comes a competitor with a well-known name for existing smartphone operating systems like Android, iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry.
bq Aquaris 5 HD with Android