mark shuttleworth

Along with numerous Ubuntu users and proprietary-software users, mainstream IT media has manifested a solid interest for Ubuntu's latest technology, Ubuntu for phones.

Interviews, reviews, opinions, etc, have addressed the innovative Ubuntu for phones OS, part of the Ubuntu family of interface in-depth covered at CES 2013, globally-known IT event that gathered companies, designers and corporations from across the world in an exciting display of cutting-edge technologies.

January 2nd 2013, Canonical announced Ubuntu for phones, polished innovative interface aimed at phone form-factors, where one can easily observe a truly interesting and worked-on-detail design.

January 9th 2013, the second day of CES 2013, a serious event where companies, corporations, media representatives, are meeting in order to present, demo and describe modern technologies.

Along with numerous Canonical persons, Mark Shuttleworth attends the IT event, conducting interviews, answering questions, sketching future plans, etc, informations expressed with Ubuntu phone OS in mind.

Presently, noticeable parts of both open-source and using-proprietary-software corners of the IT world are looking at Ubuntu for phones, a touched-by-Ubuntu phone experience with phone-specific functionalities and interaction behaviors, such as proportioned launcher, swiping gestures, native apps (designed with a small-sized screen in mind) and fully enabled screen edges (all four of them are usable).

Days ago, Canonical announced Ubuntu for phones, essentially, years of experience, community feedback and serious development work encapsulated into a phone form-factor, basically, Ubuntu for phones is pure Ubuntu filtered through a phone-optimized interface.

Approximately 48 hours ago, Canonical announced and presented Ubuntu for phones, pushing the years of Ubuntu development, experience and testing into a smaller-than-the-desktop form-factor, namely a phone.

We and people from across the Earth know Ubuntu's values and functionalities, we appreciate its speed, solid-as-a-rock experience, enhanced security and polished look.

Yet, how would Ubuntu look on a phone?

The above question has been successfully answered two days ago, January 2nd 2013, when the developers announced and presented Ubuntu for phones.

Ubuntu for phones is a recently announced technology that definitely refreshes the phone interface metaphor, introducing an innovative design-wise polished manner of consuming phone content.

Seeing pictures and clips with Ubuntu for phones, one is immediately immersed into its fancy shapes, proportioned tooltips, pleasant-to-the-eye launcher, minimalist panel, good-looking drop-downs, basically, a truly beautiful experience.

Across the latest months, the developers announced (and started to shape and incarnate directions/goals/infrastructure) an exciting path to be followed, path aimed at optimizing Ubuntu for numerous (relevant at a global scale) form factors, meaning, devices like smartphones and tablets are to receive a serious development effort (in order to align them with Ubuntu).

Months ago, Ubuntu TV and Ubuntu for Android (TV and smartphone) generated a solid amount of positive feedback, both in the community and as seen across the media.