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Ubuntu Phone OS Hands-On Demo

2013-01-08
powered by the 2013 cmax the official car of CES I'm Aaron Baker from TechnoBuffalo and make no doubt about it there's room in the market for a third and even fourth mobile OS we've got Windows Phone coming in in third place that we've got kind of a competitive battle between blackberry and then a bunt too as well which was kind of showing off a couple of days ago admittedly I was traveling and actually a work in Irvine so I didn't get a chance to catch up on it as much as I'd like to but I'll tell you one thing is for sure there's room for it a lot of different opportunities for mobile operating systems let's take a look and see what makes it great as opposed to some of the other OS is on the market we receive ones running on the phone it basically the same 1/2 as running on desktop or TV just with a new interface with the optimized for the phone we see over here basically is this the welcome screen there's a visualization of your personal data in a really nice way it gives a very personal touch to your phone because it will be a physician unique to everybody the other important thing is we see over here is the no buttons and no hockey burns and no sofa Cubans and the reason is that the whole experience is designed around the edges so the user will interact with the edges and it gives very fast natural way to interact on the phone when I would use the left edge you see that there's launcher with my most favorite apps or we for example notice was that people I use a selection of apps most frequently and they can put it in the launcher over here so for example one this is the home button I can basically go to the home screen this is the home screen obviously my frequently used apps my last call's awesome content then I'm interested in when I go left I see my people and it's aggregated a few of my contacts and facebook contacts over here my music also music I can buy and when I go to the other direction it's bad for running apps my Frigga use apps installed apps and also over here I have my videos and also videos I can buy or download basically over here in launcher you see that we both have web apps which is for example Facebook is web app it uses all core components of the operation stem as well the advantage of a Bunter is that its uses the advances of having all the web apps are possible in a very integrated way but also we can run native apps there's the gallery app and what you see over here is that we focus the free on the content rather than on the controls in order to interact with the content so when I start strolling you see that the header goes away as when I scroll back the headers there again I can change the view another thing that we saw basically was that sometimes when users are using apps they want to change the setting we have a very new and very easy way to change settings so then for the top edge jaws so over here I drag down and I can swipe left and right in me basically immediately go to settings menu so for example I can go to battery over here slide back up and I'm back in my app again or for example we also have messages here I got some messages I can reply immediately opening a picture over here again the full screen dedicated to the photo and when I want to do something with a photo I use the bottom edge for that the bottom edge brings in control so I can for example edit or I can for example share order Oh obviously go back last as writer especially for switching between apps super fast I what we saw is that people often switch between the last 2 or 3 apps take a picture for example I want to go back to my previous app there you go and that's picture it in my gallery I want to use this bottom edge swipe the leads there you go I want to go back to a little previous app right music player go to the the camera again if I want to launch the app I can also use launcher again that's a wonderful do in a nutshell exactly exactly so much you're welcome thanks to Ford for powering our CES coverage you you
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