first smartphones based on Ubuntu for phones will be available in the market from October 2013 , something that Mark Shuttleworth has confirmed in an interview with The Wall Street Journal which also notes that the ROMs with Ubuntu for Phones will be available in late February and in principle are optimized for use on the Galaxy Nexus.
The announcement is surprising since not expect Ubuntu terminal for phones until 2014 , and this suggests that Canonical has made agreements with manufacturers and carriers to possibly start marketing these devices ahead of schedule.
Ubuntu for phones was announced on 2 January, and since then much has been said of this platform that is attractive both for end users in the business: Ubuntu as the basis for shared phones Ubuntu, will have the same options in the smartphone on the desktop, and in fact that is one of its strengths: devices with this operating system can connect to a monitor, mouse and keyboard to offer Ubuntu desktop is actually being served from the smartphone.
The idea is really innovative given the current proposals that separate mobile platform desktop platform, and could be a real turning point in the history of Canonical , which has long been a leader in Linux market and could now take the final leap to the company.
In the Google operating system, in particular, this year saw an increase of 3,325 % of malicious content. On the set of all mobile phone platforms, the increase of malicious software was 150% compared to 2010. These results were presented by the company Juniper Networks in your Annual Report on Threats Mobile. The study is based on data obtained after examination of nearly 800,000 applications of all mobile platforms on the market.