Canonical's 32 millionth crowdfunding for a new smartphone
On July 22nd, a new Canonical campaign was launched on Indiegogo’s crowdfunding website to develop a new next-generation mobile phone . The smartphone will come with two operating systems in Dual Boot mode, the recently announced operating system from Canonical Ubuntu Touch, and for those who are not comfortable with the new operating system, out of the box there is the option to use Android.
One of the main features of the smartphone is that inserting the phone into the docking station, you get a fully working Ubuntu operating system.
Specifications
- ' Powerful multi-core processor '
- 4GB RAM
- 128GB SSD
- 4.5 ″ Sapphire display (with 1280 × 720 HD resolution)
- Dual cameras (8mp rear, 2mp front)
- MHL interface (supports HDMI)
- Extended Battery (Long-life silicon anode battery)
- Dual-LTE, NFC, Dual-band WiFi & Bluetooth 4
- GPS, Barometer, Compass, Ambient Light Sensor, Gyroscope, etc.
- 64 x 9 x 124mm
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smartphone can be bought
32 million is quite a bold amount for the collection of which is allocated only one month. However, in less than a day, the phone has already quite successfully collected more than $ 3.3 million (At the time the topic was created, $ 250,000 was raised).
If crowdfunding is successful, the release of the smartphone is scheduled for May, 2014.
Link to the campaign.
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