Ubuntu Touch, Firefox OS, and Tizen have been unveiled at MWC as Android challengers -- but the mobile industry is backing the wrong horses. Richard Trenholm Former Movie and TV Senior Editor Richard ...

The audacious Ubuntu Edge smartphone crowdfunding experience may be dead, but the dream of merging phone and PC lives on. Ubuntu Touch, the form factor-spanning mobile operating system intended to ...

UBports has this week announced the release of the latest update to the Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system specifically created to provide users with a privacy and freedom-respecting mobile ...

The smartphone market currently is divided between two different types, based on their software — Android and iOS. There have been a few other options in the market, such as Windows Phone and others, ...

Canonical has announced that it has secured a phone partner for its Ubuntu Touch OS mobile platform. The open-source operating system will come pre-loaded on high-end handsets manufactured by the ...

The early and surprisingly nice version bodes well for Canonical's Linux smartphone -- but you may not want to install it yourself Developers got their first hands-on peek yesterday of Canonical’s ...

The JingPad A1 is a tablet with premium specs and software that’s both unusual, and unfinished. Launched last year by a Chinese startup called Jingling, the JingPad A1 was designed to run a ...

Canonical scrapped its plans to bring Ubuntu to smartphones and tablets years ago. But the independent developers at UBPorts have been keeping the dream alive since 2017. Now they’ve announced a ...

Canonical's Ubuntu Touch operating system will be headed to mobile phones made by a mystery hardware manufacturer, the company said today. Speaking to made an agreement with an unnamed smartphone ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. That lead paragraph was probably enough to hook many of you, so if ...

The Ubuntu Edge smartphone campaign never reached its lofty $32m goal , but the more than $12m in pledges it received was record-breaking—and Canonical hasn’t given up. Ubuntu Touch for phones just ...

Canonical, the company behind Linux OS Ubuntu, is preparing a touch-specific OS for tablets that it will build on Ubuntu 10.10. The OS should be available sometime early next year. According to ...