Thursday, 10 January 2013
Designed
to make all your phone content easier to access and your apps more immersive –
every edge has a specific purpose, making all your apps, content and controls
instantly accessible, without navigating back to the home screen every time.
And the Ubuntu phone fits perfectly into the wider family of Ubuntu interfaces,
alongside the PC and TV. It's a uniquely, beautifully converged experience.
Ubuntu
uses simple natural swiping gestures from the edges of the screen to make it
easier than ever to access your content and switch between apps. Every edge of
the phone is used, letting you move faster between apps, settings and content.
A short
swipe from the left edge of the screen is all it takes to reveal your favourite
apps. There’s room for everything you use daily, available instantly from the
welcome screen or any application. Ubuntu lets you switch faster between
running and favourite apps than any other phone.
Page
either left or right from the home screen to see the content you use most. A
full left-to-right swipe reveals a screen showing all your open apps, while a
swipe from the right brings you instantly to the last app you were using.
Switching between running applications has never been quicker or easier.
A swipe
from the right edge takes you back to the last app you were using; another
swipe takes you back to the app you used before that. It’s natural to keep many
apps open at once, which is why Ubuntu was designed for multi-tasking. No other
smartphone lets you switch between applications this quickly.
Swiping up
from the bottom edge of the phone reveals app controls. You can hide or reveal
them instantly, which means they don’t take up room on the screen, leaving you
free to focus on the stuff that matters. Immerse yourself in your photos,
web pages, music, messages and apps.
Web
applications sit alongside native apps on Ubuntu. They get their own icons
and the same access to system notifications. So apps like Facebook, Twitter, Google
Maps, Gmail and Spotify are all available – and thanks to Ubuntu’s web app
APIs, it’s easy for web developers to install their sites as full
applications.
But Ubuntu
isn’t limited to HTML5. Native apps are blazingly fast, taking advantage of the
full capabilities of the phone’s processor and graphics hardware. And a mobile
SDK does most of the work to give you that gorgeous, distinctive Ubuntu look
and feel.
Run local
Ubuntu apps and remote Windows apps on a secure docked phone – the new thin
client of choice. Your Ubuntu phone can be managed with standard enterprise
Ubuntu management tools that also handle servers, cloud infrastructure and
desktops. Secure your infrastructure using Ubuntu’s browser and email client,
delivering your legacy Office apps from your data centre.
Just tell
your phone what you’re looking for and watch the results come in. If it’s a
person, you’ll see data from your email and phone contacts alongside Facebook
friends and followers on Twitter. Looking for music? Ubuntu doesn’t just search
your phone. It also searches online retailers including Amazon and the Ubuntu
One Music Store, putting the whole world of music at your fingertips, alongside
your personal collection.
Ubuntu
reinvents the inbox, giving you quicker access to all your emails, texts, calls
and social media posts. See every message as it comes in and reply in an
instant; just swipe down from the top when a new one arrives and respond
directly to Facebook, Twitter, email, SMS and good old-fashioned telephone
calls.
Bring the world to your fingertips, and
organise it all beautifully. Swipe from the home screen to filter your searches
to apps, people, music and so on. Swipe from the top to see your incoming
messages. Everything is stylish, elegant and crisp.
The
Gallery makes it easier than ever to organise, find and share your photos.
Every shot is instantly uploaded to your Ubuntu One personal cloud account,
making it available on all your devices – including those running iOS, Android
and Windows.
Ubuntu
includes native applications covering all the essentials you expect in a phone:
telephony and voicemail, SMS and MMS, email, web browsing, photography, music
and video.
Your phone
will find it, let Ubuntu do the work.
