that these devices will be made available globally, it seems that the phones will be targeted at the local market of the two players as Ubuntu doesn’t hold enough weight to break the dominance of Android and iOS in stronger economies like EU and the US. Mozilla knows the reality and despite being much bigger than Canonical chose to focus on emerging markets for the same reason.
Canonical has not disclosed any info on the hardware specs of the phones, but since they will be present at MWC they might disclose more info at the event. With no price or date set for release, little is known about the phones. With handsets being released from the rival Firefox OS by leading players like LG, it should be nice to see some momentum building for Canonical’s touch enabled device. It is not yet known which carriers in these markets will carry the phone, but with BQ being the biggest seller of unlocked phones in Spain, there should be little question that an audience can be reached both inside Spain and out. BQ’s device is expected to be dual SIM, with Meizu’s offering to be a re-purposed Meizu MX3 Android phone. If Meizu does decide to go with the MX3, users shouldn’t be disappointed by the 5.1 inch, 8-core ARM Cortex, paired up with a 3-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM.
According to reports Canonical has also claimed that two household names are also working on bringing Ubuntu phones to the market in 2015, but we have heard such reports before so I will take that with grain of salt.
Emerging markets are best bet for Canonical as Ubuntu phone ecosystem lacks major apps as well as content. People in emerging markets may be happy with a feature phone with some Internet abilities, but that’s not going to work in developed markets where people are constant consuming content and Canonical at the moment doesn’t have much to offer.
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