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this episode of Android Q&A is brought to you by HipChat so you guys remember this Ubuntu it's an alternative mobile operating system that launched over two years ago with lots of promise and fanfare but they didn't just launched a new phone this week it's what's on that phone that could begin a systemic shift and how you and I interact with our phones now first let's just start with the phone now the first you bun to phone will be a repurposed Aquarius efore point 5 the low budget BQ handset which usually runs Android the Aquarius a 4.5 Ubuntu edition has a 4.5 inch display with a 540 x 960 resolution a one point three gigahertz quad-core mediatek a7 processor one gigabyte of ram and a Mallee 400 GPU the phone also has 8 gigabytes of internal storage a 2150 milliamp hour battery an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera and right now there is no LTE support no although the phone is selling for the somewhat attractive price of 195 dollars u.s. it will only be sold in Europe but canonical has assured us that they will have quote a u.s. device strategy but that's not the most important thing now for the past week we've talked about how difficult it's going to be for any alternative mobile operating system to compete with Android or iOS because they just don't have the juice to build an app ecosystem to compete I mean who would possibly have that so ubuntu is going to change the rules of the game and they've started with a new UI paradigm and they call it scopes scopes which is a new UI paradigm designed to deliver content and services directly to your home screen giving users a rich unfragmented experience scopes will give you categorized home screens that will pull content from multiple sources this means you will get content from youtube vimeo and your own recorded media all on the same page as well as music news and other multiple page types set directly to each home screen the phone supports mainstream html5 beautifully and as canonical claims will not be just another Android or iOS clone now I know it's some of you may be thinking sounds interesting but it also sounds like a cluttered experience and that may be so it's too early to tell whether scopes would work but it does sound interesting but here's the important part scopes and the idea behind scopes opens up the possibility of beginning non native apps what are non native apps you see native apps or apps that you have to get through a play store or the iOS App Store now the exception is sideload apps but we talked about for you shouldn't be doing that for security purposes but Google and Apple are the middlemen they control the app distribution so we call those apps native apps a non native app is an app that you can go to through the web browser on your phone and use it directly now that's not very popular right now because web browsers kind of suck and non native apps are just in their absolute infancy but it could potentially have big changes just look at history remember 15 years ago we didn't download our apps you had to buy them on a cd-rom and manually install them until web apps came out and they quickly dominated desktop apps we expect a similar thing to happen in the mobile device industry but there are some stumbling box here is why it is so important for you and me let's use YouTube as an example YouTube is the middleman between you and me I'm the content producer or publisher you're the consumer YouTube controls that relationship they don't let us email you directly text you send you snail mail that's what every business needs to have a direct relationship with their consumer or customer now you may be saying Jason I don't want you to email me or text me or anything like that and that's fine this would be for people who opt into it but consider how many businesses that you cherish that you have opted in for have your phone number your address or your email or something like that you want to connect with them because they provide value and so they're able to maintain that relationship right now YouTube the Google Play Store iOS all these platform are the middle men and they take a massive chunk for controlling the relationship a non native app removes the middleman it allows you and me to connect directly and we control the relationship not a middlemen this means that we are able to make more money from our content therefore providing more premium content higher better quality people better gear better preparation all that kind of stuff I don't have to do this out of my living room kind of thing and you get to consume more premium content and have choices and probably get a lot of content that's cheaper because we're not given off thirty to fifty percent of our ad revenue see what I mean massive massive game changer let me know what you think in the comments below have you guys ever tried to collaborate with a large group of people online to get a job or project done it's pretty difficult that's why you want the right tools to do the job HipChat is an instant messaging video chat document sharing screen sharing and system updates and code sharing all integrated into one simple platform emails too slow and meetings get sidetracked now there's a freemium version which you can use for free forever but for the next 30 days you'll get the full version of hip chat which includes the bonus features of video and screen sharing you can try HipChat free no credit card required if you go to hipchat calm forward slash android authority sign up by clicking start and chat and then invite team members and try it free for 30 days and for the first 100 signups HipChat is going to extend their 30-day free trial to 90 days HipChat your team your project in sync instantly now I gotta give credit to my android brother Jimmy westenberg who wrote the article that today's show is based on you want to follow him at android authority calm for all his good work you can also follow him on Twitter verse at Jimmy westenberg or here on Google+ now guys I wanted to clear a problem up because yesterday I did the Nexus 6 how to fix its common problems and I think some of you got the impression that the phone has all these problems or most people have these problems with the Nexus 6 and that's just not true we're just trying to solve some of the technical problems that some people have with their Nexus 6 but lots of people love the phone it's a very premium foam great for you if you love really large fabulous I just wanted to clear that up please put your comments and questions in the colors below I will be sure to read them you don't wanna forget about my brother's nandroid Josh Joe and the technics you have a lot and Chris Gary Nash and Taylor all working real hard deliver the very best and read content on the web I shall see you tomorrow on Android weekly