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$32 million Crowd Funding for Android/Ubuntu phone
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on August 01, 2013, 07:45:04 AM ---i did, but i didn't hear anything about how they'll chase "optimized for photo-realistic colors and contrast" anywhere in the video in a sense that they'll end up being better than competition?
2:20~3:10 did mention about the screen, but thats what current competition is providing already.
so what are you getting into?
edit: no really, have you ever seen any panels thats better than a (calibrated or not) IPS or AMOLED?
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This article seems to think that the iPhone 5's display blows the S3's display out of the water, and this one finds that the S4 improved it to the point of matching the iPhone 5. There's always room for improvement though - none of these displays are perfectly spot-on. Whether or not Canonical can beat that really just depends on time and the constant pursuit for better display technology.
kitamesume:
indeed, they're being unspecific to the point of it sounding like pure sweet-talk, the only way they can pull it off is if they go at it with utmost calibration.
but theres one problem, even professional screens charge huge premium for factory calibrated screens, specially ones that has less than 1% discrepancy.
on the other hand, who'd need that much of precision on a handset, usually professionals use bigger screens for those sort of purpose anyway.
i'm starting to think that all those paper specs were wishful thinking :-\
sawakosadako:
Looks like they'll be $14 million short according to this projection.
www.openanalytics.e u/blog/using-kickstarter-data-predict-ubuntu-edges-success
There's an AMA session regarding Ubuntu for Android, http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1jqfce/we_are_the_engineering_team_behind_ubuntu_for/?sort=old
Looks like if the edge is fail, Ubuntu for Android became a closed project. It needs the edge to achieved its goal for it to be an AOSP.
--- Quote ---[–]chizangUbuntu for Android 59 ポイント 5 時間 前
Hi, a clarification on what cwayne18 said.
If the Edge campaign funds, the Android piece will be based on AOSP, and our UfA patches will be correspondingly based. We will follow good development guidelines and our patches against AOSP should be easy to extract from our git trees. So it would be easy for any developers to take our work and build on it.
Now for commercial versions of UfA, where we work with OEMs, we will respect whatever rules the OEM asks us to follow. Since Android is BSD licensed, it would be unlikely that we would be able to open source the commercial versions.
Bottom line, the easiest way to see an open source version of UfA is for the Edge project to fund!
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Looks like they're using a new trick to get the Android users to join the campaign.
Btw, this is a really cool GPU for mobile, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJivWTHItjM
@mod: I got a new information that I want to post, but I'm the last person that posted here. Is this considered as a double post? If I've just edit the last post nobody will be notified, so I decided to double post. Let me know if it's not allowed. Thanks.
Duki3003 edit: Yes, don't double post.
Freedom Kira:
Since your previous post was so recent, this thread is still on the first page of the Technology board, and therefore anyone browsing the Technology board would notice the "new" indicator on the thread name if you just edit your post. So yes, I believe it does count as a double post.
I think they're kinda too late with this AMA thing. They should have done this from day 1, when more people were interested and paying attention. Doing this now only got them a ~$300k boost.
mgz:
--- Quote from: sawakosadako on August 02, 2013, 01:51:50 PM ---Looks like they'll be $14 million short according to this projection.
www.openanalytics.e u/blog/using-kickstarter-data-predict-ubuntu-edges-success
There's an AMA session regarding Ubuntu for Android, http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1jqfce/we_are_the_engineering_team_behind_ubuntu_for/?sort=old
Looks like if the edge is fail, Ubuntu for Android became a closed project. It needs the edge to achieved its goal for it to be an AOSP.
--- Quote ---[–]chizangUbuntu for Android 59 ポイント 5 時間 前
Hi, a clarification on what cwayne18 said.
If the Edge campaign funds, the Android piece will be based on AOSP, and our UfA patches will be correspondingly based. We will follow good development guidelines and our patches against AOSP should be easy to extract from our git trees. So it would be easy for any developers to take our work and build on it.
Now for commercial versions of UfA, where we work with OEMs, we will respect whatever rules the OEM asks us to follow. Since Android is BSD licensed, it would be unlikely that we would be able to open source the commercial versions.
Bottom line, the easiest way to see an open source version of UfA is for the Edge project to fund!
--- End quote ---
Looks like they're using a new trick to get the Android users to join the campaign.
Btw, this is a really cool GPU for mobile, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJivWTHItjM
@mod: I got a new information that I want to post, but I'm the last person that posted here. Is this considered as a double post? If I've just edit the last post nobody will be notified, so I decided to double post. Let me know if it's not allowed. Thanks.
Duki3003 edit: Yes, don't double post.
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at the rate they are going i doubt they will break 15 million things have literally just come to a screeching halt
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