By Tanzeel Hassan
Get ready to taste the big cheese! If you want to experience the desktop feel at your phone then don’t rush to buy Motorola Atrix. Canonical has released the doozy Ubuntu for Android which helps the techies to access the desktop OS in an all new way.
Ubuntu for Android is neither an Ubuntu app running on Android nor an all-Ubuntu device running an Android emulator. Canonical beamed that “we’ve brought Android together with Ubuntu, the world’s favourite free operating system, to give you a full productivity desktop that fits in your pocket. Android for the phone experience, Ubuntu for the desktop, all on one device, running at the same time.” It brings Android with the Linux-based Ubuntu distribution, the device running on Ubuntu for Android offers Android with the Linux-based Ubuntu, it loads Android and then swaps to Ubuntu once it’s been slipped into a dock which connects monitor, keyboard, and mouse. With the Ubuntu for Android you will be able to enjoy two flavors OS belonging to different worlds in one device.
A phone with a desktop OS is nothing new, Motorola has already done this experiment with Atrix which brings Motorola’s “Webtop” OS and hardware Lapdock. Then what’s new in Ubuntu for Android? Well Ubuntu is much more useful as its large installed base and open-source origins might makes Canonical’s idea a perfect choice to go for. You can now share your contacts, media, and apps among both Android and Ubuntu. The desktop OS also prop up MMS/SMS and phones calls and comes with non-stop 4G usage and better Google Doc.
Hopefully it is enough to entice you, but hey, hold your horses as Ubuntu for Android will be loaded to devices by manufacturers, and USB and HDMI hardware support is a must to use the OS.
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