Canonical Goes To Crowd-Funding For Ubuntu Edge Phone

[peppercats]

Checked this earlier and it was at $300,000. Surprised to see it at $1.2m already. Looks like this may get funded, neat.
Still well above what I'd ever pay for a portable device that isn't a laptop considering I have very little use for them outside of ereading and talking... something a $99 device can do pretty well.

[entropy]

Checked this earlier and it was at $300,000. Surprised to see it at $1.2m already. Looks like this may get funded, neat.

[blackout23]

Haha true. The Planetary Resources kickstarter made 500.000 the first day of their 1 million goal with the highst stretchgoal being 2 million.. They did not reach that strech goal in 30 days. Was a bit dissapointed. Some games raised 3-4 million. I thougt there are more space enthusiast out there.

[doctoren]

Ouya was $100, this is $600. They're hoping to get three times the money but they need half as many people to buy it to succeed.

Your math is a little rusty I'm affraid. The Ubuntu Edge is only $600 for the first 24 hours. If the $600 were fixed it would mean that they would need close to 54,000 people backing this project that is only 10k less than Ouya which costs a 1/6th of the Ubuntu Edge. I don't think that many people are willing to spend $600 (or $830 for that matter) on a project which basically is a developer phone which can run Ubuntu.

For the record I would have no problem backing this problem if it weren't for this ridiculous goal. I can't think of sinle growdfunding project getting anything in that ballpark.

[entropy]

For the record I would have no problem backing this problem if it weren't for this ridiculous goal.
I can't think of sinle growdfunding project getting anything in that ballpark.

While I fully sympathize with people to "think big", this might be a symptom of presumption and delusion of grandeur.
Well, after all we're talking about Canonical... Doesn't surprise me.

Really.

[Ramiliez]

Please stop spreading this nonsense about camera megapixels

http://www.cnet.com/8301-17918_1-57423240-85/camera-megapixels-why-more-isnt-always-better-smartphones-unlocked/

[e8hffff]

Haha true. The Planetary Resources kickstarter made 500.000 the first day of their 1 million goal with the highest stretch-goal being 2 million.. They did not reach that stretch goal in 30 days. Was a bit disappointed. Some games raised 3-4 million. I thought there are more space enthusiast out there.

I think most of us got onto the wrong footing in that we are thinking about the developer price rather than the $20 add. What is this special status 'founder', which hasn't been defined for its benefits.

[Fenrin]

My only disappointment with the specs so far is the 8MP rear camera. I'd like to see that quite a bit higher.
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the higher the resolution the more image noice in the pictures. Image noice is bad

A 100 EUR compact camera can produce better results than a 700 EUR smartphone.

[entropy]

the higher the resolution the more image noice in the pictures. Image noice is bad

But you can still bin.

[akincer]

the higher the resolution the more image noice in the pictures. Image noice is bad

A 100 EUR compact camera can produce better results than a 700 EUR smartphone.

I don't profess to be an expert in this area. What I do know is that my S4 13 MP camera produces noticeably better pictures than a 10MP camera I've used before. In my mind, 13 > 10 > 8 but as long as the camera produces great quality photos, I'm good.