It comes on a Spanish phone called Aquaris E45 and is sold for €169.90. It is still early days but it brings something new into the smartphone market.
It hardly has the potential to compete with Apple or Google's Android but might give Microsofts 3% market share a fight.
This is what the Unity desktop is made for IMHO so it just might work just fine here.
It is an interesting strategical move from Canonical to partner up with a HW producer and bring an Ubuntu product to the market.
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