Ubuntu Will Be Tested in "Smartphone" Android

The mobile operating system was officially introduced by Canonical Ubuntu on January 3, 2013. To test further, Canonical will install Ubuntu on smart mobile phones Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which is actually designed to run Android.

The trial will be conducted in the Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona, Spain, ending in February 2013. Canonical will make improvements to patch the gap that still exists in Ubuntu mobile.

Canonical exhibitionist action is done to attract the attention of application developers. Canonical promised to release the application programming interface (API) that developers would build applications on Ubuntu.

There was the possibility of Android phones can run Ubuntu, but users need to do some modifications that are not easy and risky. By running Ubuntu on Android phones, features that previously could not be used there is a possibility.

Ubuntu and Android have the same program on the core (kernel). Both use the same Linux kernel.

Ubuntu Mobile is designed to run on devices with ARM and X86 architecture processors. Ubuntu Canonical wants to reach out to segments of the market to lower middle class and upper middle.

This British company hopes to Ubuntu-based devices released in late 2013. However, manufacturers will adopt Ubuntu and mobile market is unknown.