[url=http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/2/3827922/ubuntu-phone-os-announcement]Source (The Verge)[/url]
so its pretty much a glorified amazon phone.. Okay...
SailfishOS seems much better and it was already announced a month ago with a phone coming in Q1 2013.
I'm hoping we get Ubuntu for Android this year. I'm a little underwhelmed by this though. I don't like that you can access things from the lock screen, or the lack of lock screen, whatever. I really hope they put in a lock screen. If I'm expected to use nfc payments I want to lock my device. Assuming it'll handle things like nfc payments.
My experience with stock Android 4.2 on my Nexus 4 is this: It's pretty as all hell, but they aren't actually doing anything on Android to make productivity easier. You have to app the hell out of it, and hope they all work together. I'm not a huge Android fan from my time with the phone, The system is missing too many little things like native facebook calender integration, notification profiles, the ability to add bi-weekly reminders on the phone. There are a couple other things that I've come across that are like "Really, you don't have this, wtf?".
What does my rant have to do with this? Sure it looks pretty, but if it doesn't function well and if the features aren't there on the operating system, then what's the point? I think it's too late in the game right now to bring out a pretty OS that lack features. On release, any new mobile OS has got to stand toe for toe with any other.
There are a couple things I like about it, Global search across apps and content on your phone should be a standard as far as I'm concerned. Swipe gestures are the future (as long as Apple doesn't patent them). HTML 5 supposrt is good, as long as this year we see Unity announced, and everything else really. Support everything, that way devs don't have an excuse not to port an app over to your system.
well...android is already based on linux kernels...soooo does that mean that we're gonna get android V2.0? (hopefully faster, cause ios beats the crap out of android on that area)
I just want to be outthere so can take my old android phone and install that and then when i connect it to a screen it becomes a PC :D
looks epic but prob will be bugy at launch hope not to much im really looking forward to it
No, not really. It means they both can run on the same devices but all android apps run in a special java vm which is not availabe on ubuntu. Also google controls the app store and want to do everything to prevent further splitting.