The Ubuntu team has been hard at work preparing their mobile operating system for public consumption by early 2014. The Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview which was released back in February, may not have been usable as a daily driver, but the latest version has seen significant progress.
You can check out the following video by The Ubuntu Community Manager, Jono Bacon who demonstrates the progress made by the mobile platform in the past months.
The Google Galaxy Nexus is his device of choice over the past couple of weeks and he demonstrates some of the basic features in action, like the phone interface and how text messaging works. He also demonstrates the weather application and multi-tasking between various apps. You are also given a glimpse of the working web browser and social integration with networks like Facebook or Twitter.
Keep in mind that Ubuntu Phone is still in a development phase and as you will see the performance has still not been optimized to the handset used on the demo. However we are very keen on seeing how this progresses as new features keep being added and performance is improved.
Installing Ubuntu Phone on supported devices should be the same as before, so be sure to check out our guide on How to install Ubuntu Touch on your Nexus device if you want to use the operating system yourself.
source - Jono Bacon (You Tube)