The avid apple player is changing iOS to Ubuntu. Crazy or ... paid Crazy?

bq Ubuntu vs iOS.  The avid apple player is changing iOS to Ubuntu.  Crazy or ... paid Crazy?

No, no, no, this is not a review, much less a comparative one. Do not rejoice.
Torn prose in three parts from the first person with a bag of abstracts-seeds in the middle and a video finish under the curtain, after reading which you will either give your iPhone your grandmother or go into the yard ... launch the drone. There is no third.

Do you agree? Go?!

Episode 1. Cold shower. Introductory


January 2015 Las Rosas, a suburb of Madrid. Headquarters bq.
20 minutes by car, 10 minutes by Ducati.

Company bq.  Headquarters

The CEOs of the company I work for are dumbfounded by the following news:
“Guys, your team in Russia did a really outstanding job in the desktop 3D printer market in 2014. We want to entrust you with a serious task: launching bq smartphones based on Android and Ubuntu on the Russian market. Here are a few devices for overclocking. Take, use, immerse yourself in the product. By the end of the year 10,000 units should be sold ... You can handle it. "


bq Ubuntu smartphones and tablets

What can I say? A complete misunderstanding, cho!
The good news is that we love difficult tasks.
The bad news is that in order to be effective in the distribution of any products - they must LIKE us.

And there is a little problem.
More specifically, when I pick up ANY Android, I feel something like this:
Bueeeeeeeeeee .....

January 19, 2015, I realized that I would have to work with products that are frankly unsympathetic to me.
After all, I am an avid Yabloko, and yes, guys who are sitting on Android, now you can tell me in your face EVERYTHING that you think about the nearness of my mind. I will humbly accept.

Devices on Android and some marginal Ubuntu - is this the thing of the next stage of my life?
“Hunger is not an aunt ... It is hardened, it will fall in love!” I reassured myself.

Episode 2. They are not taken in astronauts


April 16, 2015. Aircraft Moscow - New York, flight UN-1111.
WiFi internet in the sky over the Atlantic.

Sky over the Atlantic

The right eye is ajar, the left is asleep. I read corporate mail in random order, I see the correspondence of my guys with someone from the federal network. When the meaning behind the black letters of the e-mail reaches the drifting in the stand by mode of the brain, the right eye is rounded, the left eye opens wide. I recognize the usual reaction of the body to ... testosterone.

The text gleaming on the tablet screen, causing such a violent biological reaction inside the body, is:

“In short: Ubuntu is hopeless.
Another nameless brand at space prices and with an incomprehensible price list ... A
smartphone on Ubuntu needs three and a half regulars w3bsit3-dns.com ... "


Episode 3. Geek Sneakers


Geek sneakers

Actors:

Brother 1 - a salesman with experience.
Brother 2 is a developer.

- Brother, well, Brother, help! (Replica of the first)
- Cho ?!
- Well, you're in the GameDev industry. And you make toys for tablets, smartphones ...
- And what ?!
- We have been appointed the main ones for bringing Ubuntu Mobile to the Russian market, say this in general, call or mastday?
- Sec ... (Brother leaves for the stage, a loud speech is heard behind the scenes of the loft, where 50 programmers are sitting. 10 minutes pass, the hero returns. The face has changed the mask of indifference to an expression of slight bewilderment and carefully hidden curiosity.)

- I found out.
- Well, don’t be tom! Rejoice or be sad?
- Of the 20 people polled in the team, 14 have Ubuntu on the PC. The attitude towards the desktop version is strictly positive.
- What about UBUNTU for mobile phones?
- The guys are interested. Everyone wants to feel. But the funniest thing is NOT this.
- Do not be foolish, not a laughter. What fun?
“I have a lower caste coder.” The third month on probation. The salary is below the subsistence minimum, and wears sneakers for 8 years. Change money - no. Yes, and such thoughts - does not occur.
- A lot of fun (Brother 1 reacted sarcastically). That you are an exploiter - I know. Fun here - only to you.
- I didn’t tell! When I asked the guys about Ubuntu, he took off his headphones and for the first time in three months, TALKED to us. Himself, on his own initiative. His speech is poorly developed, he rarely uses his voice, but what was definitely clear from his text is that every two months he “backs up” Ubuntu for $ 50. 50 dollars - regularly every two months, you think about it! Change sneakers - no money, but for that ...

Curtain.

A voice behind the scene.
Brother 1. What is it? The market for Ubuntu-based smartphones are crazy marginal coders from the lower castes? How many are there in Russia? How many are there in the world? 457 people? Do they have any money at all?
This is a failure ...

Sunflower seeds


The Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona was great (except perhaps for a ticket price of 700 euros).
The story about the premieres of the vendors is worthy of a separate article (which is already enough on the network), but my main catch was the fresh bq Ubuntu from the Canonical booth, which I had to use in the near future in an orderly manner.
My capacious story in pictures, not overloaded with technical terms, what Ubuntu tastes like from the point of view of the Yabloko, begins ... We take our

Time to try bq Aquaris Ubuntu.  Now!

first impressions

...

I do not want to dwell heavily on packaging, as required by the laws of the genre. I’ll tell those who remember the impressions of the box with the iPhone: a sense of unusualness and even partly a challenge to standards and at the same time harmony and naturalness in the case of bq Ubuntu packaging can be argued by the force of influence on a lusting user with apple products. Definitely.
It does not matter. But definitely nice.

Not a scoop. Not China. Not a farce.

I quickly get to the smartphone itself, tear off the protective film.
I turn it on. "HI! Welcome to your UBUNTU Phone. ”

bq Ubuntu mobile Aquaris.  Preparation for work

Unusually, there are no more buttons besides the power and volume keys on the case.
The brain begins to throb uneasily: “How can I live without the HOME key ?!” I

quickly enter the primary data for initialization.
The phone is loading.
I open the door, enter ...

I click, leaf, press, move, open, close, tap, pull, release, whisk, come back ...
Once again in a different order: open, pull, click, top to bottom, bottom to top, from the edge with a long delay , from the edge with a short one, I shoot, I return ... I

listen to my inner voice.

1. Not iPhone
2. Not Android
3. Definitely not Windows
4. The most important thing for me: DOES NOT TEACH ... Not PUUUUUUU-Cheat! Eureka.

And ... the mechanical key HOME, and especially BACK - is not needed.
Magic. How did they do that?

I will not yet publish what I saw outside the door.
We will bring order to a post falling into emotionality.

Update

First of all, I update the OS and the preinstalled applications at once.
100% subjective sensations: installing updates is somewhat faster than in iOS and without brakes.
Perhaps because the device is virgin.

Ubuntu bq update

Connecting accounts

So that Ubuntochka (well, I’m already starting to sentimentally ahead of time) showed in all its glory what it is capable of in the context of organizing content - you need to register the accounts of the services you use,
I spent 7.5 minutes, because they me NOT two. Subsequently did not regret it.

We register accounts on bq Ubuntu

Contacts

Instantly materialize in your address book, after connecting a Google account.

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My contacts are stored in the iCloud cloud, not in Gmail, so I had to transfer them to Google in advance.
Voila!

Contacts

Interface / Environment (the most pulp)

According to the law of the genre, the most interesting is to write at the end, keeping the reader in suspense and increasing expectation.
We cut the tradition, I write about what excited me, the Yabloko, most of all.

I liked the inside. It’s unusual and definitely not sickening for me (which I was so afraid of) ...
I ’ll note some very calm design that doesn’t pierce the brain with the brightness of colors.
It is some kind of harmonious even without the “buy-buy” and “push-push” calls.

And now a little more, moving away from the blurry descriptive characteristics.
To warm up:

Swipes / Swipe

The first smartphone in my life where swipes are involved from all sides of the screen and this is convenient, but not overkill.
Swipe to the left - Ubuntu's proprietary menu:

Swipe left on bq Ubuntu

Swipe to the right - open applications or Scopes / Scopes (more about them below).

Swipe right on bq Aquaris 4.5 Ubuntu edition

Swipe from the bottom - depends on the context of the content currently being displayed.
By default, setting the display order of scopes:

Scopes and applications on bq e4.5 Ubuntu edition smartphone

Swipe on top gives access to shortcuts:

Notifications / Turn lock / Files / GPS / BlueTooth / Network / Sound / Battery / Date Time

bq Ubuntu swipe on top

Hot:

Scopes / Scopes

Translate the word Scopes into Russian, stupidly translating letters into Russian transcription - a well-known, unpretentious, simple practice, but not close to my heart.
Meaning of the word Scope in English- does not convey the whole point of TOGO what this thing is actually in the Ubuntu environment and what I miss so much in my iPhone with its 140 installed applications.

The closest in meaning meaning that my brain gave out to the humanities to indicate primarily the sensations of working inside the interface, and not to show the academic accuracy of the translation, is “WORLDS” .
Thematic worlds that you leaf through with the thumb of your right hand.
Scopes are pages of content aggregators from several applications relevant to the task / theme of this world.

The most significant scopes are Today / Today and NearBy / Next:

The first shows EVERYTHING that relates to the current day:

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Weather, Events for today, Phone calls, Messages, Daily physical activity indicators, News, Twitter trends. The

Scope Today on bq Ubuntu

second shows EVERYTHING that is relevant to the place where you are now.

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For me, NearBy became a real lifesaver on my last trip to the States.
In fact, this custom scope aggregator pulls content from different app sources.
You do not need to open Foursquare separately to find where to eat, do not open Yelp to understand what sights are nearby, do not go to the Wiki to read articles about the area where you are (I lived in Jersey with a view of Manhattan), visuals - not you need to open Flickr or Instagram to steal a beautiful picture of the place or, in principle, to understand what eye-catching objects are nearby.
You have everything on one page, in one world, in one scope.

Maybe I’m a bit technically telling, but the immediate sensations from this way of organizing the content, changing from where you are now in the automatic mode, greatly free up the time we spend on manipulating gadgets and somehow make it easier GENERAL #TheWayOf Living

Look below the same Scope already in Moscow (not in New York) - for comparison:

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No unnecessary movements.
For comrades often moving around the planet - just a magic feature .
No kidding. Must have full and ... customizable:

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I can not calm down, because Scopes are perhaps the most spine part of the interface and for me personally the most inspiring.

Note: Developers have the opportunity to develop for Ubuntu - NOT ONLY applications, but also their worlds (scopes).
Examples of some of them - pioneers, I give below.
There is no doubt that if this paradigm appeals to the intelligible part of smartphone users on this OS, the dynamics of new ones will go exponentially.

ScopeMovie and Scope Trailers Online Shopping :

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Scope LEGO competitor and news aggregator for Ubuntu :

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Scope News and Scope Photos :

news scope on bq Auaris Ubuntuimageimage

I won’t say anything more. Confident thumbs up!
I really get the main content I need faster on Ubuntu than on iOS, where I have 7 screens with randomly placed applications, which (I REPENT) I still have not found a way to group SO, so as not to search every time I need.

Ubuntu’s application and content management system is to my liking.
Absolutely meets the spirit of today. Let's take a

breath ...
Let's go down to the banalities of each device.

Communication

Invigorates the presence of two sims.
And specifically in my case, the point here is not at all about saving on tariffs (I never dealt with this because of the non-mathematical mindset), but in the ability to insert a local SIM card when traveling, without disconnecting from the main number.
In the States, I did just that right away:

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Working with different SIMs and switching are reflected in the photo below:

Work with two SIM on bq Ubuntuimageimage

It's nice that it is always clear with which SIM you are calling or sending sms.
Without durilov.

Navigation

Everything is simple here.
HERE from Nokia is preinstalled.
I use it on my iPhone when traveling (allows me to download maps and use them offline).
It was nice that having logged in to HERE on Ubuntu - I got all my selected points that I put on the iPhone.

Relevant photos - below:

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WebSurfing

Web browsing on Ubuntu is simple and brutal.
There are no twists and surprises.
There are bookmarks, many tabs are supported.
Web-optimized sites look predictably better.
Photo below. There is no revolution here. But no failure was found: Our Ubuntochka

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work

Ubuntu bq speed

speed (yes, this is the place where you can switch to the diminutive-caressing again) - DOES NOT have premium class iron.
I’m not a technical mentality of a little man, but even the meaning of the phrases “Two-core percent”, “Quad-core”, “Aperativka” even reaches me.
Everything is very modest in iron in our case. You can see it on the site for those who wish.

However: Ubuntuka seems to be floating ... I did not notice obvious brakes for almost three months of use.
And not once did I, the 100% choleric / psycho (underline), the device did not infuriate me.
I believe this is the merit of OSes, but not hardware in the first place. I can be mistaken, I will not argue for money.

Speed ​​is an offset .

Applications

A bit.
Everything you need is there, but surely everyone has an application for today, without which it is frankly difficult for him.
For me it is DROPBOX. And in general, a cloud for documents and photos.

I know that Evernote is about to launch under Ubuntu Mobile.
But personally, I did not make friends with him.

Cheered up by the patriotic tremor of Telegram.
Messenger is not only the only one available on Ubuntu, it is also preinstalled.
Pasha - well done, you burn!

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Do you know which application is in the TOP?
See below: Terminal!
Yabloko not understand. But due to age - I know what it is, and I know that through this thing guys can work wonders (according to rumors - untested - until the installation of Android applications).

Terminal app in bq Ubuntu

In general, if this smartphone is handed out to physicists and lyricists, then the former will know much more WHAT to do with it than the latter.
Nevertheless - I do not think that the lyrics will be disappointed. After all, I'm one of the last.

Multitasking

bq Ubuntu in New York

No comparative tests, thank you.
Maybe it's not even multitasking called.
In fact - 20 open applications and worlds / scopes - did not hang up my phone at all.
Everything plows - when switching / returning to the application, nothing hangs, it does not freeze forever.
Subjectively, like .

Camera.

Subjectively - the photo seemed to be of slightly lower quality than the iPhone gives.
Below I give clickable photos: Video HD - norms. See for yourself. Here it is extremely difficult for me to give expert opinions:

bq Ubuntu photos

bq Ubuntu photos

bq Ubuntu photos





Battery

No, but what ?! This parameter is important to me. Below is the battery schedule.
Subjectively, two days is enough for non-aggressive use.
With aggressive - a day, a little more.
On iPhone - also around the beginning it was.

PS Now - the Bullseye does not hold more than 3 hours. The trouble, in general.

Ubuntu bq battery

Dimensions

This is not an OS parameter, it's about Iron. Nevertheless, I will mention.
To the touch is a matte metal black case with an honest 4.5 inch screen.
Compared to apple 5, it’s SO:

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Probably comparable to iPhone 6, a little less.

Do not be bored, we are approaching the end of the meal. Now served - dessert .

At the end I left - the most serious things.
This is not for you “Ivanushki International” to watch on TV ...
We read the heading below, we are going, we are pulling in our stomach:

Security / Privacy


Who is stronger than a steam locomotive?



Data security

Rumor has it that trains are the safest transport.
It is safer - only in suspended animation in a frozen bunker lie.
And even that is in theory.

So, a topic that can become crucial for not only paranoid people, but for thinking people, REALLY caring for the absence of leaks of information about themselves and their activities through a smartphone or PC.

Attention. Figures.

The CESG department of the UK government, which is responsible for the security of the software used in the Kingdom (not to be confused with the same British scientists), conducted an extensive study of the operating systems used and presented the following data:

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Those who are not new to IT do not need to have excellent English to understand WHO was the winner according to the results of the work of the British department (although the task of identifying the winner was generally not worth it)
In this context, understanding English or knowing how to use Google Chrome translate is interesting to read the thread Ubuntu forum , which discusses in detail the issue of security with end users.

Make sense of it. Take a break.

In conclusion, I will write something that I do not fully understand, but the value of which I think may appear as a result of direct use.
Ubuntu on PC, smartphones and tablets, as well as inside the Internet of Things ecosystem, are NOT different trees under one sign (as is the case with the Mac OS, for example, and iOS for mobile devices). In fact, this is one OS.

What does this mean in practice?

And the fact that by connecting an external keyboard to a tablet running Ubuntu, for example, you can use it as a full-fledged PC version of Ubuntu, and do exactly the same feint with a smartphone by connecting it to an external monitor.

Cool? Sounds great? It sounds inspiring, but as a humanist, I still need to make sense of the practical benefits of this kind of architecture.
The fact that it is new and interesting (not because it’s fresh, but because it’s not a craft or a miserable copy, but really an OS that carries some new meanings) is unconditional.

Instead of a conclusion


After pausing and raising our eyes to the sky for a while, we will return mentally to the stories at the beginning of our story .
Task: launching bq smartphones based on Android and Ubuntu on the Russian market.

“In short: Ubuntu is hopeless.
A smartphone on Ubuntu needs three and a half regulars w3bsit3-dns.com ... "

An encoder in well-worn sneakers ... every two months, it backs Ubuntu for $ 50.


Guys, say your good word.
If the humanist who is blind by nature in a technogenic sense saw SO MUCH in Ubuntu - does she have a chance?
In Russia? The world?

What do you think?

Who is right? Canonical? Geek marginal? Really enthusiastic, albeit biased, am I? Federal Network Manager?


What is the Future? Is there any Ubuntu place?

You, in the end - rushing?


I will be PERSONALLY DEEPLY grateful to everyone.

Personally (I will not hide) rushing. There is something here.
After all, only Drones running Ubuntu can do this:



I'm right? Fly?

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In the end, the poll stuck to an earthly character.
Fans of voting - click on the necessary items.
Dissent - in the comments!

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If to conduct business for a wedding, buying a smartphone on Ubuntu, then I probably:

  • 42.6% for 379
  • 7.7% vs 69
  • 14.4% There is no absolute security, do not tell me ... 128
  • 9.4% Admins ban a guy, he is not in the subject 84
  • 40.6% in favor . Lope worth? 361
  • 3.3% Against. Am I wasting 300 bucks in the Apple Store for nothing? Who will return them to me upon transition? You? thirty
  • 12% over. Ubuntu is worth all the treasures of the world. 107
  • 13.1% Daaaaaaaa, Habr is not the same ... 117
  • 21.6% Nothing is clear so far 192
  • 5% will wait some oppy-zopy-Huawei-hayskrina 100 $ 45

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