Entry-level Ubuntu phones will require a 1Ghz Cortex A9 processor and between 512MB and 1GB of memory, while the high-end superphones that double as PCs will require a quad-core A9 or Intel Atom ...

In a world dominated by iOS and junk-food-inspired Android operating systems, Canonical, developers of Ubuntu, feel there's room for a mobile version of its user-friendly Linux OS. However, rather ...

The company is seeking a business development manager for Ubuntu Phone OS to develop relationships with industry partners and build a commercial ecosystem around an Ubuntu smartphone operating system.

Canonical today announced that the second Ubuntu phone — the Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition — is coming in mid-June, only four months after the Aquaris E4.5 UE saw release.

A phone version of Ubuntu was first pre-announced in October 2011, with an arrival date said to be in 2014. Firefox OS has had a similarly long gestation, first announced in July 2011 and still ...

Ubuntu Phone OS is a Linux-based operating system for smartphones and touchscreen devices such as tablets, and it’s still very much a work in progress. When the developers at Canonical started ...

And the first device won’t hit the market until 2014. Further, Android apps can’t even run on the Ubuntu Phone OS. Ubuntu’s community is not what it used to be, and I am not alone in saying ...

A consortium of companies led by mobile operating system maker PalmSource and carrier French Telecom yesterday announced plans to standardise certain aspects of Linux for mobile phones. Dubbed the ...

The company, a la Mobile, compares its Convergent Linux Platform to Microsoft's Windows Mobile smart phone operating system in terms of delivering all required software components within a single ...

The companies behind the prototype say Linux may become the operating system of choice for 3G. Photos: Mobile phones convene in Cannes Andrew Donoghue Feb. 17, 2005 4:54 a.m. PT 2 min read ...

The operating system’s historical roots on the PC won’t be forgotten, either, as Ubuntu phones will be dockable with a monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

If you can stand a 22-minute video, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth would love to tell you all about Ubuntu's strategy for the coming year, which includes some neat segments on the mobile OS.