The developers of
Ubuntu have set about creating a platform for today's
smartphones, which will compete with Google Android. The release of new products scheduled for the fourth quarter of next year.
British company canonical, has developed the operating system Ubuntu, which is based on the kernel Linux, started creating a special version of the OS is designed for use in smartphones, told the media, Richard Collins, who heads the division of product strategy canonical.
He noted that the company plans to finalize the draft in 2013, after which demonstrate its own operating system manufacturers of mobile devices and expand the negotiating process with respect to its supply in the form of pre-installed. "Our new development will be an excellent alternative to the
Google Android", - says Collins.
When three years ago, Google Inc. announced that will develop its own operating system for mobile devices, nobody would believe that after two or three years, Android OS will capture the market. Today the world market every day more than 350,000 sold vehicles under its control. Not so rosy, however, things were in the former CIS countries, where smartphones were considered not a cheap pleasure. For example, in Russia, the first more or less available android began to appear only in the last year.
