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hey what's up guys I'm Kay PhD here and today I'm going to be talking about a boon to foam now a lot of people have been asking me to do a video on a Bluetooth phone as it's kind of coming into its broadest light recently it's been very popular it was at CES where a lot of people got their first hands on and first impressions of it but basically it's really new thing so let's go and talk about it what is it well first of all it's an operating system ubuntu phone is the name just like we see Windows Phone on all Windows Phone phones we see iOS on every iPhone we see Android on a ton of phones so a boon to phone is a new operating system that will run on other phones now what devices and phones will it run on well that's a good question because it's not completely answered yet but in all the demos we've seen in all the videos of at CES and everything it's running on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus which is Google's last generation development phone not to say it's an old or a bad phone but it's one year old hardware now reporting to Joe no bacon who is community manager over there for a Bluetooth there are three possible ways that this could work number one is that there will be phones like the Galaxy Nexus that currently run Android they will be able to run a boon to phone so just nothing but a boon to phones just the plain operating system and that will be the only OS that they run not the iPhone Blackberry is not Windows Phone just phones that are capable of running Android will be capable of running just a boon to phone option number two is something I'd like to see is higher-end phones with you know quad-core processors and extra RAM these Android phones would run Android in your pocket but then when you hook them up to a dock and a desktop maybe a display you'll be able to run a full version of desktop of boot to Linux so it's an Android phone in your pocket but it's also a desktop PC when you hook it up to a dock and a keyboard in a display and the third way is certain devices will be able to run a boon to phone in your pocket and be able to dock and run the full version of Mbutu on your desktop with terminal and everything so if you're ready for that that's definitely going to be the full complete experience and I think that's what they're going to be aiming for but I definitely like option number two with a high-end Android phone being able to dock and suddenly run a boot to on the desktop and also an unofficial prediction for me I kind of have a feeling we're going to be seeing this on tablets soon as well this year just because of how thumb friendly the OS is but we'll get to that in a second you should also know that a boon to phone is an open-source operating system the same way Android and what that means for Android is that manufacturers can come in and spin it however they want and then output that and it'll be different variations of Android in the end same thing will probably possible with Ubuntu phone there will be different spins of it different variations of it or maybe just certain customizations that developers will be able to add maybe you want a lock screen to look a certain way or you'll be able to change things basically the same way you can with Android so what makes this different from Android well the biggest difference I see with Android is the user interface user interface is really clean really simple but it's also got a little bit of a learning curve to it it doesn't use any actual buttons no capacitive or software buttons the only buttons that you use are the actual power and volume buttons on the phone the hands-on demos with it haven't been super smooth we've seen a lot of frame stuttering and things like that but again this is very alpha this is way pre-release and I've a certain feeling that this is going to be as smooth as anything else out there when it hits market also something notable about it is that there's no central home location or home button there's home screens but there's no pone button that you can stamp and go home the same way you see on Android there's a home button you can go home on iOS it's just always a physical circular home button that you can go home even on Windows Phone you have a certain button you press to go home that doesn't exist on a Bluetooth phone so if you're familiar with Ubuntu and Linux you probably won't have a problem with this but you should note that that it's going to have a little bit of a learning curve so without any further ado here are my top 5 features of a boon to phone starting with number 5 and that's the color scheme now this might seem minor a lot of people are like oh the color scheme that's nice but a lot of people who are already using Ubuntu or Linux on their desktops are familiar with that orange and you know that it's a good-looking color scheme I have to admit and you know running on black phone so it's a black bezel with the orange wallpapers I don't know it just looks pretty good I thought it was notable number 4 is the built-in apps and they were doing a lot of these at the demo at CES that I got to look at and especially things like the gallery app it just looks really I don't know it looks clean it looks intuitive but again it's different so you're going to have to learn it but I think the built-in apps were noteworthy especially things like the gallery app which just it just struck me as being different the number three feature is multitasking and this is done really well very similar in fact to Chrome for Android when you swipe in from the right hand side you'll be able to swipe between your open applications so you'll cycle through those by swiping in from the right-hand side of the display it looked pretty smooth again not as smooth as probably the final release but it did look pretty good and but this is slightly incomplete I feel like because there was no real way to close open things just like in Chrome for Android you can close your existing tabs but when you switch between these you don't really have a way to close open applications you can just cycle between the ones that are open so it's nice the way it works but I think when it's complete it will have a way to close apps so that's pretty cool that brings us to number two the number two feature is just the overall guest or based UI so I said there are no real buttons involved only the power and volume buttons so the way you get around this is using the swipes from the top bottom and left and right edges of your display so I've been from the bottom and that'll bring you to your menu that's a contextual menu so if save here in the gallery and you swipe in from the bottom you might get a share menu to be able to share that photo or edit that photo or video that you're looking at if you saw I've been from the right that's where you get your multitasking so you'll be able to cycle between open applications and swipe in from the left and that's where you get your basically your app launcher so clapping in from the left here will allow you to crawl up and down and open whatever app you have Facebook camera gallery browser whatever you want and you'll be able to open this just from the launcher on the left hand side that launcher on the Left wall so you be able to bring you to the desktop the one of the essentially home screens on a Bluetooth phone and on the top that brings us to our number one that is your settings toggles which are brilliant the settings toggles in a Bluetooth phone gives you really really fast but also really quick and intuitive access to your settings basically you swipe down from the top and then before you go all the way down you swipe to the left or to the right to pick the setting you want to adjust and then swipe all the way down to get access to it so it's very very specific gives you a lot of control and a lot more options actually than the quick Android 4.2 settings pretty much every other OS is really far behind in terms of quick settings toggles and controls so right above Android I would put a boon to phones quick settings toggles they are good looking they are fast and they are smooth and they are really useful so I like that that's my number one feature so there I go guys that's the new player in the market a bunch of phone should be coming out on some unknown range of devices later this year what do you guys think about it I mean I personally think I want to try this I'm not one to really play around with a ton of different operating systems I've stuck two maybe three total on my phones Windows Phone Android and iOS but I don't know I think I would give this a try this year considering whatever devices it runs on especially if it uses that second option where it can be maybe Android in your pocket and then a Mbutu on the desktop that seems that seems cool so either way if you enjoyed this video feel free to give it a thumbs up below or a +1 or if you learn something feel free to reshare it definitely helps out a lot with the channel either way thank you for watching and I will talk to you guys in the next video