Ubuntu Edge

<p>The Ubuntu Edge was a proposed <a href="/facts/High-concept/JwjC8IGR">high-concept</a> <a href="/facts/Smartphone/cSIrBMWG">smartphone</a> announced by <a href="/facts/Canonical_Ltd./76WPw1uW">Canonical Ltd.</a> on 22 July 2013. Canonical was seeking to <a href="/facts/Crowdfund/u9gwrlYI">crowdfund</a> a production run of around 40,000 units through <a href="/facts/Indiegogo/YGJql5Sh">Indiegogo</a>. It had the highest target of any crowdfunded project to date, $32,000,000 over a one-month campaign. The Edge was not intended to go into mass production after the initial run, but rather to serve as a demonstration for new technologies for the industry. The Edge fell short of its funding goal, raising only $12,733,521 with 27,633 backers to purchase the standard model of the handset.
</p><p>The Edge was designed as a hybrid device, which would function as a high-end smartphone (with both <a href="/facts/Ubuntu_Touch/Wat4drUo">Ubuntu Touch</a> and <a href="/facts/Android_(operating_system)/nNyHb0xz">Android</a>), or—when used with a monitor, keyboard and mouse—be able to operate as a conventional desktop PC running <a href="/facts/Ubuntu_(operating_system)/0WDd7hkb">Ubuntu</a>. The Ubuntu Edge was also designed to support dual boot, and was to run along with Android.
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Ubuntu Edge