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Canonical's Ubuntu Edge Struggling Despite Enterprise Support

2013-08-09 03:34:14| PC Magazine Cell Phones Product Guide

Canonical announced that it is fixing the price of the Ubuntu Edge smartphone at $695 — no limited quantities, no more price changes.

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Canonical lands first enterprise backer for Ubuntu Edge, just 49 to go

2013-08-08 21:40:46| InfoWorld: Top News

Canoncial has generated plenty of buzz with its $32 million crowdsourcing effort to build 40,000 of its Ubuntu

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Sol, the $350 solar-powered rugged Ubuntu laptop that wont be usable in the sun

2013-08-06 16:29:22| Extremetech

If you're gifted with independently manipulable eyebrows, now would be the time to raise a single brow. An inventor in Canada claims to have created a solar-powered Ubuntu laptop that can run directly from power generated by its built-in solar panels, or recharge its 10-hour battery with just two hours of sunshine. If that wasn't enough, the laptop -- pretentiously dubbed Sol -- is ruggedized for military and off-road use and you also get built-in GPS, Bluetooth 4.0, WiFi, and 3G/4G LTE. The best bit, though, is the price: The Sol will cost just $350.

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Ubuntu Edge smartphone funding levels dying off

2013-07-30 14:47:29| InfoWorld: Top News

The first heady rush of support for Canonical's crowd-funded Ubuntu Edge smartphone appears to have tapered off, as donations for the eye-catching device have slowed substantially over the past several days. The project sits just above the $7 million mark at the time of this writing a large sum by the standards of crowd-funded projects, to be sure, but the $32 million goal is still a long way off.

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