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I would like to try Ubuntu Phone but I cannot find it anywhere.

Canonical's page says that all devices are out of stock, various online stores say exactly the same thing, and all the devices that are listed as compatibile (Nexus 5 for instance) are two generations old and also hard to come by.

The only option I haven't tried is buying used phone on eBay, because they usually come in pretty bad shape so I want brand new device.

Please Canonical, get your shit together and release SOMETHING, pretty much any device with 4.5 inch screen 2GB RAM and 32GB flash will do.

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Same with Jolla – my first gen is breaking and I can't buy a replacement running Sailfish at this moment. I like Sailfish and I'm interested in Ubuntu Phone, but clearly they seem to have some issues convincing manufacturers to release some hardware with these alternative systems. I hope maybe Fairphone and Puzzlephone could become open mobile hardware devices with at least semi-official support for multiple open operating systems because I'm not quite brave enough to start hacking mobile devices to run Linux.

Canonical aren't likely to release another Ubuntu Phone until Snaps are a standard way to install new software, which I personally think is a great move by them.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-P...

You can still buy a tablet here (top listing). https://www.amazon.es/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?__mk_es_ES=%C3%85M%...

You could always flash your own...

https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/phone/devices/installing-ubu...

I've bit a little disappointed that Firefox OS didn't pan out

You can get the tablet bq M10 now. Or you can preorder the Fair phone 2, the version with Ubuntu preinstalled.

The Fairphone 2 doesn't come with Ubuntu preinstalled and the project to run the OS on the phone is community based and in progress.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/07/ubuntu-fairphone-2-port-u... https://forum.fairphone.com/t/fairphone-2-ubuntu-touch/23475

You can run a version of Android without Google ("Google Mobile Services") on FP2. This is called Fairphone Open OS [1].

[1] https://code.fairphone.com/

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