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On 5 Feb 2016 BQ in partnership with Canonical launched the Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition, to be sold globally. [2] [3] The tablet is available in both the Aquaris M10 FHD hardware (with the 1920x1200 screen) and the Aquaris M10 HD version (with the 1280 x 800 screen) from the BQ store.
Ubuntu Touch was released to manufacturers on 16 September 2014. [20] BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition, the world's first Ubuntu-based smartphone went on sale in Europe on 9 February 2015. [21] In April 2016, the world's first Ubuntu-based tablet, the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition, was released. [22]
BQ (former name: Mundo Reader) was a Spanish company brand of user electronics devices, such as smartphones, tablets, e-readers and 3D printers among other products.. Among BQ's most notable products are the first AndroidOne mobile phone in Europe (the BQ Aquaris A4.5), [1] [2] [3] as well as both the world's first mobile phone and tablet running the Ubuntu Phone operating system, (the BQ ...
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Ubuntu Touch is an open-source mobile version of the Ubuntu operating system [145] originally developed in 2013 by Canonical Ltd. and continued by the non-profit UBports Foundation in 2017. [ 153 ] [ 154 ] Ubuntu Touch can run on a pure GNU/Linux base on phones with the required drivers, such as the Librem 5 [ 155 ] and the PinePhone . [ 156 ]
While UBPorts tried to follow suit with Ubuntu Touch, a wider development of free Linux operating systems specifically for mobile devices was only really spurred in the latter 2010s, when various smaller companies started projects to develop open source phones.
The Aquaris E4.5 is notable for being the first commercially available phone to carry the Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system. On 9 February 2015, BQ in partnership with Canonical launched the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition [4] and it began a gradual release in the European Union through a series of online flash sales. [5]
BQ elected not to skin the operating system and as such it retains the unmodified "Google Experience", such as found on the Google Nexus. On 9 June 2015 BQ in partnership with Canonical launched the Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition. [3] [4] [5] The phone is based on the Aquaris E5 hardware (with the 1280×720 screen) and was sold in the European ...