Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Ubuntu Edge: Explained!”.
Hey what is up guys, I’m Kay PhD here, remember a boon to phone OS. You know we have Android Windows Phone blackberry, iOS, boot, iPhone OS is kind of the new player on the market and we’ve first really got to see in action at CES. In January of this year – and I also did a top five video of detailing the best features of it – it’s basically a new smartphone operating system with a lot of unique features that other smartphone OSS. Don’T have it all well funny. You should mention that a boot to edge is the newest thing that has all the people talking asking questions like. Is this legit? Is this really as awesome as it looks? Is this really what I think it is that’s what we’re here to answer so without any further ado, let’s take a closer look. This is a boon to edge, explain. There are three main things you need to know about a boon to edge to really understand it. Number one: this is a crowdfunding project to make a piece of hardware happen. Basically, this device doesn’t exist yet canonical, which is a company in charge of this, is trying to make it happen in the form of an IndieGoGo campaign. So the first link below the like button will be a link to the whole campaign page where you can read up on all the details and check it out and see for yourself, but they’re, asking for a record 32 million dollars to make this one device happen. But when you think about it, in terms of you know, actual costs to make a smart phone when you compare it to other high-end flagship smartphones, that’s not all that much money at all to ask for, and this is also a limited edition phone, so it might Seem crazy at first to ask for a world record-breaking 32 million dollar fundraiser on IndieGoGo, but when you put it all in perspective, it’s not all that insane. The number two thing you need to know is the actual specs of the device they’re planning to make they’re really weird.
This device is supposed to have a 4.5 inch 720p display covered with a sheet of sapphire crystal instead of traditional glass. It also have a camera on the back similar to the HTC ones, in that it’s optimized for low-light, photography and fast shooting sounds kind of like the HTC One S. Camera it’ll probably come in at around 4 or 8.
Megapixels. You’Ve also quoted the fastest multi-core chip available, which will probably be an 8 core chip by the time this phone launches plus they’re also looking at 4 gigabytes of RAM and 128 gigabytes of flash storage. Damn. That is a stat line right there in that one frame of their promo video. That’S sold a lot of people, those those three things are just nuts also have dual LTE antennas for 4G in Europe and the USA, and a slightly new silicon anode battery technology.
For a hopefully very long-lasting battery in this beast of a phone and it’ll dual boot Android and a boon to so, why all these crazy specs? Why all these ridiculous numbers on paper well consider this the idea of an Ubuntu OS phone is that wing and holding in your hand, or when it’s in your pocket. It will run a normal phone operating system like Android, and you won’t be able to tell that. It’S a crazy phone or anything like that, but once you plug it in and basically dock it to a display, a keyboard and maybe even a mouse it’ll start running a full desktop operating system, they’re using a boon to so a full full fledged desktop non stripped-down Experience that’s going to take a pretty crazy, spec sheet to be able to run that and fit in your pocket. The bow 2 edges Hardware also happens to look just gorgeous drop-dead gorgeous beautiful sexy did I mention gorgeous. You have mostly 3d renders at the moment, but looks like if you look at the campaign site. Some actual prototyping has started as they have a couple of physical things in hand that they can use to show off the phone.
But when you actually look at this, it’s very very clean. The idea of the clean lines of the edge it’ll be crafted from a single piece of metal into an awesome shape for this high-end, build quality and on front. You can see edge to edge sapphire crystal, to make a bun to OS as gestures, much easier since you’re, not dragging your finger over multiple materials and honestly, what the angles on the devices and the way the corners look. I can see where they got. The name edge makes a lot of sense and I also happen to think this looks a lot like the Oppo find 5. But maybe that’s just me so the number 3 thing you need to know – and this is probably the most critical of them all – is how does this actually work? How do you have a device that runs Ubuntu, OS and Android? How do you have something that has two different operating systems on it that work with each other and talk to each other? Well, the answer that canonical has come up with they’re calling convergence.
Conversions is basically Android and a boon to OS being able to talk to each other, which is pretty freaking cool. Now they don’t actually have in a boon to edge to show us this on. So for the video they had a much lower spec device they use in Nexus 4 and basically, when they plugged in the Nexus 4, they were using.
You know stock Android before you couldn’t tell that it was an abuti phone, but they plugged into the desktop and it was running full. A guest like we said before a boon to operating system for the desktop, and since these two operating systems are talking to each other, using this convergence, a lot of the things that you would expect to find in your phone, you will start to also find on The boon desktop, so if you use the contacts app in a boon and you start searching for contacts, you’re going to be searching, the contacts on your Android phone, the music on the Ubuntu desktop, will search for songs in your Ubuntu library on Android the Thunderbird mail Client gets its data from the Gmail client on the Android phone and you can even use a dialer app in the desktop to make and receive phone calls through the phone that’s plugged in. So it’s a really neat concept and basically, what I’m trying to say is: where can I give you my money? So what’s the point of all this? What’S the big idea with making a high-end device that runs abouttwo OS? Well, basically, you can consider the abou to edge the nexus of Ubuntu OS, it’s basically using this project to create a limited edition high-end phone. That is, you know, a blend of the experience of what the experience should be when you’re using this operating system. So again, when we look at the nexus program for android you’re, looking at what you expect out of stock Android, this is what you should expect out of a boon to OS when you’re going to be running a high-end operating system from the desktop you’re going to Need high-end specs: this is what they want to start off with and what other OEMs can follow. This isn’t meant to be an iPhone rival or the most popular thing in the world. It’S not going to sell.
Well again, this is limited edition. It is only for the enthusiasts it is only for the people that are supporting the project, so that’s basically yeah they’re doing a great job right now. One thing I kind of want to see if they’re, even watching this or listening at all, is, I would kind of like to see a physical and actual physical doc, because the idea of you know plugging in one cable and sort of propping up your phone.
Next, to your desktop seems a little bit cumbersome if that’s something what they want us to be doing all the time with the edge and I’d also like to see a little bit more prototyping. So they have some more physical units to be able to show people if they’re trying to get bigger donations from people who are interested but other than that they’re kicking ass right now, if you’ve checked out the IndieGoGo campaign already you’ll see, it seems like they’re going Up by a few thousand dollars every time i refresh the page on IndieGoGo, so they’re kicking ass right now and I really hope they reach there. Thirty two million dollar goal: how realistic is it that they’re going to reach this goal? It’S a good question.
I mean they did indeed smash records. They, I think, hit two million dollars in the first 24 hours, and this is a thirty day campaign and four days in their past six and a half million dollars. So it seems like they’re doing a great job already, but uh it’s it’s definitely something that needs to be kick-started if you get punt that I just made that idea, but either way, if you feel like getting this super kick started, you can just you know, toss. Eighty thousand dollars at them, I’m sure they could use that either way.
This has been a boon to edge, explain, feel free to share this video with anyone who has any questions about this also I’ll include a link to the AMA on reddit that CEO Mark Shuttleworth did, which has a lot of interesting questions about the business and technology Behind the scenes answer there, so I’ll include that link below the like button below. Hopefully this covers everything. If you have any other comments or questions, the discussion section is open below. Thank you for watching and I’ll talk to you guys in the next one: hey .