Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Top 5 Ubuntu Phone Features: Explained!”.
Hey, what’s up guys, I’m Kay PhD here and today I’m going to be talking about a boon to foam. Now a lot of people have been asking me to do a video on a Bluetooth phone as it’s kind of coming into its broadest light. Recently, it’s been very popular, it was at CES where a lot of people got their first hands on and first impressions of it, but basically it’s really new thing. So let’s go and talk about it. What is it well? First of all, it’s an operating system.
Ubuntu phone is the name just like we see Windows Phone on all Windows Phone phones. We see iOS on every iPhone. We see Android on a ton of phones, so a boon to phone is a new operating system that will run on other phones. Now what devices and phones will it run on? Well, that’s a good question because it’s not completely answered yet, but in all the demos we’ve seen in all the videos of at CES and everything it’s running on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which is Google’s last generation development phone, not to say it’s an old or a Bad phone, but it’s one year old hardware, now reporting to Joe no bacon, who is community manager over there for a Bluetooth. There are three possible ways that this could work number one is that there will be phones like the Galaxy Nexus that currently run Android.
They will be able to run a boon to phone, so just nothing but a boon to phones, just the plain operating system, and that will be the only OS that they run not the iPhone Blackberry is not Windows. Phone, just phones that are capable of running Android. Will be capable of running just a boon to phone option.
Number two is something I’d like to see is higher-end phones with you know, quad-core processors and extra RAM. These Android phones would run Android in your pocket, but then, when you hook them up to a dock and a desktop, maybe a display you’ll be able to run a full version of desktop of boot to Linux. So it’s an Android phone in your pocket, but it’s also a desktop PC when you hook it up to a dock and a keyboard in a display.
And the third way is certain devices will be able to run a boon to phone in your pocket and be able to dock and run the full version of Mbutu on your desktop with terminal and everything. So, if you’re ready for that, that’s definitely going to be the full complete experience and I think that’s what they’re going to be aiming for. But I definitely like option number two, with a high-end Android phone being able to dock and suddenly run a boot to on the desktop and also an unofficial prediction.
For me, I kind of have a feeling we’re going to be seeing this on tablets soon as well. This year, just because of how thumb friendly the OS is, but we’ll get to that in a second. You should also know that a boon to phone is an open-source operating system, the same way Android, and what that means for Android is that manufacturers can come in and spin it. However, they want and then output that and it’ll be different variations of Android.
In the end, same thing will probably possible with Ubuntu phone there will be different spins of it different variations of it, or maybe just certain customizations that developers will be able to add. Maybe you want a lock screen to look a certain way or you’ll be able to change things basically, the same way you can with Android. So what makes this different from Android? Well, the biggest difference I see with Android is the user interface. User interface is really clean, really simple, but it’s also got a little bit of a learning curve to it.
It doesn’t use any actual buttons, no capacitive or software buttons. The only buttons that you use are the actual power and volume buttons on the phone. The hands-on demos with it haven’t been super smooth, we’ve seen a lot of frame, stuttering and things like that. But again, this is very alpha.
This is way pre-release and I’ve a certain feeling that this is going to be as smooth as anything else out there when it hits market also something notable about it. Is that there’s no central home location or home button there’s home screens, but there’s no pone button that you can stamp and go home the same way you see on Android, there’s a home button. You can go home on iOS, it’s just always a physical circular home button that you can go home even on Windows Phone. You have a certain button. You press to go home that doesn’t exist on a Bluetooth phone. So if you’re familiar with Ubuntu and Linux, you probably won’t have a problem with this, but you should note that that it’s going to have a little bit of a learning curve.
So without any further ado here are my top 5 features of a boon to phone. Starting with number 5 and that’s the color scheme now this might seem minor. A lot of people are like.
Oh, the color scheme – that’s nice, but a lot of people who are already using Ubuntu or Linux on their desktops are familiar with that orange and you know that it’s a good-looking color scheme, I have to admit – and you know running on black phone. So it’s a black bezel with the orange wallpapers. I don’t know it just looks pretty good.
I thought it was notable. Number 4 is the built-in apps and they were doing a lot of these at the demo at CES that I got to look at and especially things like the gallery app, it just looks. Really I don’t know it looks clean, it looks intuitive, but again it’s different. So you’re going to have to learn it, but I think the built-in apps were noteworthy, especially things like the gallery, app which just it just struck me as being different. The number three feature is multitasking, and this is done really well very similar, in fact, to Chrome for Android when you swipe in, from the right hand, side you’ll be able to swipe between your open applications, so you’ll cycle through those by swiping in from the right-hand Side of the display it looked pretty smooth again, not as smooth as probably the final release, but it did look pretty good, and but this is slightly incomplete I feel like because there was no real way to close open things. Just like in Chrome for Android. You can close your existing tabs, but when you switch between these, you don’t really have a way to close open applications. You can just cycle between the ones that are open, so it’s nice, the way it works, but I think when it’s complete it will have a way to close apps.
So that’s pretty cool. That brings us to number two. The number two feature is just the overall guest or based UI, so I said there are no real buttons involved, only the power and volume buttons. So the way you get around this is using the swipes from the top bottom and left and right edges of your display.
So I’ve been from the bottom and that’ll bring you to your menu, that’s a contextual menu! So, if save here in the gallery and you swipe in from the bottom, you might get a share menu to be able to share that photo or edit that photo or video that you’re looking at. If you saw I’ve been from the right, that’s where you get your multitasking, so you’ll be able to cycle between open applications and swipe in from the left, and that’s where you get your basically, your app launcher so clapping in from the left here will allow you To crawl up and down and open whatever app, you have Facebook camera gallery browser whatever you want and you’ll be able to open this just from the launcher. On the left hand, side that launcher on the Left wall, so you be able to bring you to the desktop the one of the essentially home screens on a Bluetooth phone and on the top. That brings us to our number one, that is your settings toggles, which are brilliant.
The settings toggles in a Bluetooth phone gives you really really fast, but also really quick and intuitive access to your settings. Basically, you swipe down from the top and then before you go all the way down you swipe to the left or to the right to pick the setting you want to adjust and then swipe all the way down to get access to it. So it’s very very specific gives you a lot of control and a lot more options actually than the quick Android 4.2 settings pretty much. Every other OS is really far behind in terms of quick settings, toggles and controls. So right above Android, I would put a boon to phones, quick settings toggles.
They are good, looking, they are fast and they are smooth and they are really useful. So I like that, that’s my number one feature so there I go guys. That’S the new player in the market.
A bunch of phone should be coming out on some unknown range of devices later this year. What do you guys think about it? I mean I personally think I want to try this, I’m not one to really play around with a ton of different operating systems. I’Ve stuck two, maybe three total on my phones, Windows, Phone, Android and iOS, but I don’t know. I think I would give this a try this year, considering whatever devices it runs on, especially if it uses that second option, where it can be maybe Android in your pocket and then a Mbutu on the desktop. That seems, that seems cool so either way. If you enjoyed this video feel free to give it a thumbs up below or a 1 or if you learn something feel free to reshare.
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