The ambitious Smart phone-project has failed for the time being. Ubuntu should become an alternative to dimensions like Samsung and Apple at the mobile phone market. The software company Canonical Limited as well as their owner and sponsor Mark Shuttleworth from South Africa wanted to put on the market in spring, 2014 a Linux-Smartphone. The financing of the 32 million US dollars of project should be realised by means of Crowdfunding (also dream financing called). How now became known, have not gathered more than 40% of the required capital, so that the project has been stopped. Now nearly 20,000 supporters who could be enthusiastic about the project get back her money.
Besides, the idea was behind Ubuntu Edge not without. The Ubuntu Edge would have been the first Smartphone with four gigabytes of main memory and two operating systems - to the Linux operating system Ubuntu mobile OS and Android. One did not want to throw on the market simply any new Smartphone, but make himself thoughts and unite the best qualities from the Smart phon and desktop world on the basis of the Open Source operating system Ubuntu.
Now Canonical announced that one wants to give up the project not completely and build a diminished version of the planned mobile phone. Canonical-CEO Jane Silber said the branch main entrance Cnet that in the first quarter in 2014 an Ubuntu mobile phone should come on the market, indeed, one which contains not all planned features. Thus there will be no possibility to change between Android-and the Ubuntu operating system.
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