<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Tony Pursell" <<a href="mailto:tony.pursell@gmail.com">tony.pursell@gmail.com</a>> Date: 2 Jun 2014 16:25 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone To: "Ubuntu UK" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Cc: On 2 Jun 2014 15:27, "Simon Greenwood" <<a href="mailto:sfgreenwood@gmail.com" target="_blank">sfgreenwood@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > > > > On 2 June 2014 15:08, Tony Pursell <<a href="mailto:ajp@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk" target="_blank">ajp@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk</a>> wrote: >> >> See >> >> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27660366" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27660366</a> >> >> It seems that the Ubuntu phone will be too late into the market if all the manufacturers start bring out their own OS. >> > > Few have the resources or will to create their own OS, or even bring an existing one to market as Samsung have done so Ubuntu's USP is still that it's 'free'. > It does say that Tizen is open source. > I'm starting to hope that there is a Ubuntu phone (or a good Firefox phone) available when I need a new one, not least as yesterday my Nexus 4 told me that I'd walked for 11 hours last month compared to 17 hours the month before - interesting and it's clearly something I've turned on but also data that Google is collecting. > > s/ > > -- > Twitter: @sfgreenwood > "TBA are particularly glib" > > -- > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> > <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> > </div>