Ubuntu Edge, $32,000,000 Indiegogo Campaign

[lxskllr]

The future of portable devices is almost here. Get in for $830 :^D

Ambitious goal, and the phone looks exceptional, but it's a little too spendy for me. I hope they succeed one way or the other though.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge

 

[SOFTengCOMPelec]

Pity it's not $199.99.

When you said $32,000,000 I was expecting a massive Ubuntu super computer, made out of 1,000,000++ compute nodes.

4Gb of ram, people are still buying desktops with *ONLY* that much.
128Gb storage, that's a lot of typing on a phone!

Thanks for the information!

 

[hasu]

Wow! nice specs. Considering the RAM and storage the price is on par with the newer mobile devices. I think half of that price, though somewhat unrealistic, will attract a lot of buyers.

 

[MrColin]

A FOSS OS on a smartphone would be great if it didn't have a bunch of <name any corporation> proprietary lock in traps built into it. This sounds promising, I think I will contribute.

 

[crashtestdummy]

Wow! nice specs. Considering the RAM and storage the price is on par with the newer mobile devices. I think half of that price, though somewhat unrealistic, will attract a lot of buyers.

Think of this thing as a bit like google glass. The hardware probably isn't quite yet there for the Phone/Desktop hybrid they're doing, but it's a preview of what may be mainstream in a few years' time.

I think the concept is brilliant. I'm still a little wait-and-see on Canonical's implementation.

 

[Phantomaniac]

I find it funny that they're targeting enthusiasts. Most enthusiasts run intensive programs on their desktop PCs that are probably beyond this device's abilities. I'm talking audio/video processing, rendering, gaming, virtualizing, etc. If they could slash the price in half they could attract mainstream consumers for whom a a desktop PC of this caliber would be fine.

 

[AlexKidd5000]

Well, the indiegogo campaign crashed and burned.

 

[nemesismk2]

Well, the indiegogo campaign crashed and burned.

you have to hand it to them atleast they tried

 

[ultimatebob]

I think that it would have stood a better chance if the price was lower. $695 is too much to risk on a brand new phone from an unproven phone software developer and unknown hardware manufacturer.

Now, if you asked me to bid $100 for a $100 phone coupon and a chance to be first in line to pick up the phone? I might have went for that.

 

[AlexKidd5000]

you have to hand it to them atleast they tried

Yeah, but part of me is glad it failed. Canonical has distanced itself quite a bit from there userbase, and stopped listening to what they want, and they have the nerve to ask them for money. It dosn't matter though, they will probably find another way to fund it.

 

[lxskllr]

Yeah, but part of me is glad it failed. Canonical has distanced itself quite a bit from there userbase, and stopped listening to what they want, and they have the nerve to ask them for money. It dosn't matter though, they will probably find another way to fund it.

It wasn't really about the money. It got them publicity, and also gauge the demand for a device like that. If it were closer, Shuttleworth may have kicked in the rest, but $20m is a lot to gamble.

 

[AlexKidd5000]

It wasn't really about the money. It got them publicity, and also gauge the demand for a device like that. If it were closer, Shuttleworth may have kicked in the rest, but $20m is a lot to gamble.

True. I personally don't care about the Edge, or smartphones in general. What I want to see is more and more people moving away from Ubuntu, because it really is not a very good platform IMO. And Canonical wanting to merge Ubuntu across every possible device, doing what MS did, makes me not like Ubuntu even more. I just don't like how everything Linux seems to revolve around Ubuntu like its the greatest OS on earth.

 

[lxskllr]

I just don't like how everything Linux seems to revolve around Ubuntu like its the greatest OS on earth.

That would be Debian :^P

I didn't have a problem with anything Ubuntu did until Mir. I don't like their direction, but their picture of a desktop was harmless enough. Don't like it? Don't use it. Mir changes that. It's too low level to just swap out, and them being the number one desktop makes things difficult for everyone else. Their popularity could have helped the rest of us, but all it's gonna do is lead to hacky workarounds so things work on Wayland, which everyone else is going to. It's all for no reason. They're doing it specifically to separate them from the rest of the distros, and to keep other companies from taking the tech, improving on it, and competing against them.

 

[AlexKidd5000]

That would be Debian :^P

I didn't have a problem with anything Ubuntu did until Mir. I don't like their direction, but their picture of a desktop was harmless enough. Don't like it? Don't use it. Mir changes that. It's too low level to just swap out, and them being the number one desktop makes things difficult for everyone else. Their popularity could have helped the rest of us, but all it's gonna do is lead to hacky workarounds so things work on Wayland, which everyone else is going to. It's all for no reason. They're doing it specifically to separate them from the rest of the distros, and to keep other companies from taking the tech, improving on it, and competing against them.

Exactly, which is why everyone needs to ditch Ubuntu. Canonical dosen't give a crap that they are making everything difficult for everyone else. My personal favorite flavor of Linux is Arch

 

[ashetos]

Me likey Fedora!

 

[LordFury]

Personally to me i would not spend $695 to get the ubuntu phone cause if you convert it into Rs. 44,320/- in which in India you will get an amazing laptop.

But personally i like the idea of ubuntu edge, and if they can combine their idea and work together with Phonebloks it would be an amazing device which me and many of my friends would be readily be willing to spend for am sure ...what do you guys think about a phone which can be upgraded or repaired just by changing blocks ... now how awesome is THAT !!!

 

[lxskllr]

what do you guys think about a phone which can be upgraded or repaired just by changing blocks ... now how awesome is THAT !!!

I like that idea a lot. I'm not an electrical engineer though, and wonder if you can make a portable device like that. The idea seems too simplistic; like everything wasn't accounted for. If it's doable, that phone would jump to the top of my list.

 

[AlexKidd5000]

I'm not at all into smartphones, or tablets. I prefer desktops, and laptops myself. I don't think canonical is really doing anything new making a phone that has Ubuntu on it, I couldn't care less. Ubuntu is practically the Windows of Linux in my eyes.

 

[yhelothar]

Any power user would just use remote desktop and connect with their full powered desktop anyways. That would work so much better than this solution.

 

[H54]

Does anyone else think that the idea that a large corporation with an Indiegogo campaign a bad idea?

 

[lxskllr]

Does anyone else think that the idea that a large corporation with an Indiegogo campaign a bad idea?

No, I think it's great. It allows everyone to take part in the process.