Ubuntu Phone Featuring Slick Linus Tech Tips CES 2013
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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810 words · ~4 min read
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hey guys we're here at the Ubuntu Booth I thought I'd cover this because lanus likes his iPhone way too much um and
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we're just here to check out a demo so if you can show me how the phone goes
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sure so this is Ubuntu phone and we'll
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start by showing you our welcome screen we don't like to call it a lock screen
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because we want to welcome you to your phone and what we've done here is this
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is an infographic of things about you so
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this infographic will dynamically change throughout the day based on your social
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media feeds to kind of give you a visual representation of things about you okay
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so the color the intensity of the colors around the circles are is going to
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change depending on what social media groups you have messages in and whatnot
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exactly correct very cool very cool so this is Ubuntu uh this is not a port of
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Ubuntu this is the same operating system that runs on your desktop or in the
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cloud right and uh as you see here from the left this is actually the unity
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launcher yeah okay so let's go ahead and
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get into the phone here so the first thing I'll show you is our home screen
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so this is our Unity home lens and this
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is a dynamic lens that will change throughout the day as well as you do
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frequently used apps your missed calls New Media that you may add to the phone
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Etc our apps lens which is your
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currently running applications your installed apps and even apps available
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for download from our app store right and you guys will have a dedicated
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button for that on release I'm assuming exactly right perfect so let's go ahead
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and uh and launch an application
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okay so I'll launch our native photo
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gallery app and what we've tried to do our design philosophy here is is you'll
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notice we have no physical buttons or no hard buttons uh or no soft buttons I've
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noticed a lot of awesome swiping action so far exactly we want to be completely
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gesture based right so if you notice here the whole screen is available for
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your content but if you use Swipe up from the bottom of the screen you'll
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notice that we have control buttons on demand because you typically don't need
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them so why have them always be there of
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course that makes sense yeah that's very cool uh is there any multitasking cas
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capabilities or anything of the phone that you can show us exactly so we use
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the left Edge for launching apps the bottom Edge for controls and the right
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edge here would be to actually switch between running applications so this is
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the way you would do multitasking very very cool very cool very quick very adds
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a lot to the fluidity of the phone that's very awesome I like that so then
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how do you get back home to the unity screen it would be one quick gesture
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across the screen and that brings you back home very cool so those are the
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three edges we have one other edge here which is the top Edge and this if I use
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is allows me to get at all the settings within the phone from anywhere
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throughout the uh just go along the top
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there yeah see how it selects different things as he swipes it across so you
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pull down and then go left and right very Swip tastic awesome and you can
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just reply call someone back uh right in
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line here without ever having to leave what you're doing on the phone so so
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many times you've probably been on your phone oh how do I turn off BL bluetoo or
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how do I get back to a setting well they're all right here for you at your
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fingertips at all time right now this isn't based on Android so what kind of
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phones are we going to see this available on so we're currently talking to a ton of Manufacturers right now I
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can't say any right now but later in the year you'll you'll be seeing handsets
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come out that's awesome what phone is it being developed uh shown on right now
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right so this is the Galaxy Nexus or the Nexus 3 right uh which is the
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development phone from Google all right very cool development here guys we're
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finally seeing another big player in the smartphone market it's very nice speaking with you thank you subscribe to
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