After years of talks and promises, the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition is now real. The world’s first Ubuntu smartphone is going on sale in Europe on Monday February 9th.
The BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition comes with a 4.5-inch QHD display, a quad-core MediaTek Cortex A7 processor at 1.3GHz, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of storage with MicroSD expansion, a 5-megapixel front camera and an 8-megapixel rear camera.
The company says the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu edition will go on sale via “flash sales” with limited availability.
The interface will have themed panels called “Scopes” for news, music, videos, contacts, and locations which the company says it’s a reinvention of the mobile UI.
Presenting a new way to rapidly and visually access the most important digital life services – music, social, web, local services, photos etc – directly on the home screen. The richness and unfragmented experience delivered by Ubuntu Scopes are a world away from burying content and services inside multiple apps in an icon grid – reversing the industry’s hackneyed status quo.
Full press release here.
