Ubuntu shows off a hybrid handset

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So they are still showing it off on a Nexus 4?

Meizu are just about to release Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu Edition that have top of the line hardware, but it's missing MHL so it can't be used for convergence... WHY DO THAT!?

> BBC's Chris Foxx asked Ubuntu's founder Mark Shuttleworth whether the firm would be playing catch-up with HP which announced a hybrid handset running Windows 10 at the Barcelona tech show.

"Playing catch-up" because... they were announced at the same show?

HP aren't using their own OS. MSFT demoed their continuum technology at the Surface event back in October, so there's a good chance HP will beat Canonical to the market.

Is the HP one running x86? I'd imagine Linux would be hugely preferred to Windows on ARM since so much more of the software ecosystem is available.

It's ARM, using a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820. You're effectively limited to Windows store universal apps (which are usually pretty terrible), plus MS Office.

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The whole world moves to putting out different devices for different usecases and integrating them with protocols and APIs. Why is Canonical moving in the other direction?

Because right nowe we have more devices that we can handle I think.

Because the whole world is trying to push you to buy different devices for the sake of selling new trinkets, and what all that I really want is to have one personal computer that I can carry and is powerful enough to be useful on its own.

How hard is compiling an Ubuntu phone kernel compared to android?

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