Ubuntu Edge is dead, long live Ubuntu phones

Canonical raises an impressive $12.8 million, but it needed $32 million.

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Deus Casus[/url]":hq2ls5j9]The concept is good with the whole dock-able phone and one that I wouldn't mind trying out.

Haven't several of these (albeit Android-based) hit the market in the past? My niece had one.

Yeah, Motorola pushed a couple of docking stations for its Android phones.

The Atrix was interesting but Motorola was rather aggressive with the security and when people who were interested in playing with it beyond the default configuration, Motorola basically told them "go away, we don't want you."

So interesting things could have happened but Motorola ensured they wouldn't.

I was thinking... isn't this what happened w/ tablet PC a decade ago? The concepts were there, the hardware was not.

It could be that dockable 'mini computers' of the past are good concepts, impeded by hardware and software. Maybe their time will come in the future.