Ubuntu for Android - Coming Soon

Using your smartphones to power a desktop or a laptop is not something new. The Motorola Atrix 4G demonstrated that it was possible by introducing a Webtop based laptop dock which allowed you to connect your device to a laptop and experience it's content on the larger laptop screen with the added keyboard advantage.

While Webtop didn't provide the perfect desktop environment, Ubuntu plans to offer something that will change this by bringing the full Ubuntu Desktop to your docked Android handset.

By adopting the same kernel as Android, Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) will allow Ubuntu to parallel boot with Android. When you dock your Android device, you will have immediate access to all your favourite Ubuntu apps along with the Android apps from your device.

With smartphones growing more and more powerful it only makes sense that that power is put to better use. This will allow you to essentially create a document on an Ubuntu based desktop and edit it while you are on the road on your mobile device.

Canonical is planning to demonstrate their platform at the upcoming MWC, so we will soon be able to see the potential of the latest version of Ubuntu. the company believes that this will be a key feature of high end handsets by the second half of 2012.

I personally believe this is a mutually beneficial feature for both Android and Ubuntu. Ubuntu will get extreme recommendation through Android, While Android can continue to steal customers away from Windows, by offering a desktop solution on their handsets.

However the rumors of Android JellyBean offering an integration of Chrome OS with Android  may become the largest road block in Canonical's plans.

Do you guys think this project has potential to succeed? Share your thought in the comments section below.


source - Ubuntu