The first mobile devices running on Canonical OS will be available in October this year, and not in 2014, as previously reported. The platform itself will be available to developers at the end of February.
The Wall Street Journal wrote about this with reference to Canonical founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth.
Who will be engaged in the production of smartphones for Ubuntu is still unknown. It is quite possible that several Chinese companies will act in this role at once. Before the appearance of official devices that will appear on the “two largest world markets” (one of which will definitely be the USA, and the second, probably, China), developers will be able to test the OS on the Galaxu Nexus, for which it is currently optimized.
The main feature of Ubuntu, we recall, is the unique design of the OS, completely built on swipes. How the situation will be with applications on it is not entirely clear. Canonical itself claims that they will be easy to port from Android.