13 Facts About Ubuntu Touch

Ubuntu Touch is a mobile version of the Ubuntu operating system, being developed by the UBports community.

Ubuntu Touch was released to manufacturers on 16 September 2014.

Ubuntu Touch for Android was a variant of Ubuntu Touch designed to run on Android phones.

Ubuntu Touch Mobile Internet Device Edition is a discontinued Ubuntu Touch distribution planned to run on the Intel Mobile Internet Device platform, x86 mobile computers based on the Intel Atom processor.

Ubuntu Touch uses the Qt 5-based touch user interface and various software frameworks originally developed for Maemo and MeeGo such as oFono as telephony stack, accounts-sso for single sign-on, and Maliit for input.

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When Ubuntu Touch is turned on no lock screen immediately appears, as applications will prompt the user to unlock if necessary when they are opened.

Ubuntu Touch includes core applications such a calculator, an e-mail client, an alarm clock, a file manager, and even a terminal among others.

Ubuntu Touch's multitasking is accessed by swiping the finger from the right edge of the screen to the left, which switches to the previous application or shows all open apps (long swipe).

Ubuntu Touch requires that a system's CPU support certain hardware features.

Ubuntu Touch can be installed on a number of phones that originally appeared with Android.

At best, Ubuntu Touch seems like a sandbox for the most enthusiastic early adopters and a cheap enterprise solution for companies on a tight budget.

Ubuntu Touch noted that the platform was free of advertisements.

Three months after, in May 2015, the Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Touch Edition went on sale in China, becoming the second Ubuntu Touch phone.