Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android

As many observers have pointed out, the phone handsets that many of us carry now exceed the power of the laptops we were carrying not all that long ago. The much-hyped Galaxy Nexus, for example, includes a 1280x720 display, 32GB of flash storage, 1GB of RAM, a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, and a number of interesting peripherals never found on that old laptop. And, of course, there is a Linux kernel running the whole thing. Given that, one might well wonder why one should still bother carrying a laptop around. Canonical, it seems, believes a number of people are wondering that; thus the announcement of Ubuntu for Android, an interesting attempt to move laptop-based activities onto the handset.

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