Ubuntu fans have been waiting a long time for this: Canonical, through its partner Bq, has released its first official Ubuntu phone worldwide. The Android and iOS alternative is convincing in tests, although it does show room for improvement.
Does the smartphone market, which is saturated with Android, iOS, and Windows phones, as well as various exotic options, really need another competitor in the form of the new Ubuntu phone? Many users are asking this question.
The issue with Canonical's new offspring is about quality and not quantity – even if the Linux distributor itself aims at wanting to address "each user."
A quick glance at the underlying Ubuntu phone [1] technology elicits curiosity: Canonical ensures that applications derive from QML [2], a powerful declarative language for creating user interfaces from the Qt framework.
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