BQ Now Openly Selling The Aquaris Ubuntu Phone

[phoronix]

Phoronix: BQ Now Openly Selling The Aquaris Ubuntu Phone

Back when the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition smart-phone launched in February it was only available in limited numbers via "flash sales" facilitated by the company. At last, now this first Ubuntu smart-phone is available to order by anyone within the European Union...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=BQ-Ubuntu-EU-On-Sale

[Marc Guillot]

When it offers the full Convergence experience (desktop apps) it will be very interesting. I love the idea of a phone that you can dock at home to do serious work.

[madjr]

Interesting.

At first they were kinda hesitant or wary in case of failure to offer the phone, but seems demand is good enough.

Am waiting for a tablet. Maybe they will offer it on one and maybe other phone models, specially as they get competition from meizu

[MrRtd]

Interesting...

I wonder when Ubuntu and other Linux (non-Android)phones will enter the North American market?

[CrystalGamma]

Doesn't seem interesting to me, hardware-wise, it's basically my Jolla with 2 additional ARM cores ... if it had more RAM, *then* I'd have considered it, because my Jolla is often RAM-limited (especially when using the browser ? 3 tabs loaded at once is just not good enough for me, and sometimes when I open a new tab it even shoots down things like the music player ...)