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Barcelona: Canonical Discusses Ubuntu Mobile Internet Devices

  • Written by Joe Panettieri 1
  • February 17, 2009
During the GSMA Mobile World Conference in Barcelona this week, Canonical is working behind the scenes -- evangelizing Ubuntu-based Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) to new and existing customers. The big question: Will Canonical line up more Ubuntu MID partners, or will MIDs (highly mobile WiFi devices) remain overshadowed by the netbook craze?

Ubuntu Mobile Internet DeviceDuring the GSMA Mobile World Conference in Barcelona this week, Canonical is working behind the scenes — evangelizing Ubuntu-based Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) to new and existing customers. The big question: Will Canonical line up more Ubuntu MID partners, or will MIDs (highly mobile WiFi devices) remain overshadowed by the netbook craze?

For its part, Intel is promoting a new MID technology — called Moorestown — at the mobile conference, notes The Wall Street Journal.

Canonical isn’t exhibiting at the conference, but the company is holding meetings behind the scenes and taking a close look at Moorestown.

“We are definitely keen to do a Moorestown-based MID device,” notes Canonical Marketing Manager Gerry Carr. “Of course we need a customer to ask us to do it first but we work very closely with Intel on these initiatives and have been working towards Moorestown for some time.”

Touchy Subject

Still, Canonical’s MID initiative seems to be overshadowed by the ongoing netbook craze. When Canonical and Intel announced joint work on MIDs in mid-2007, the effort was expected to focus on touch-driven WiFi devices (and other form factors) that weren’t quite smart phones. But since that time, two key mobile market disruptions have occured:

  1. Netbooks came out of nowhere, and demand for the low-cost devices (running Windows XP or Linux) has prompted some skeptics to question whether MIDs will ever gain critical mass.
  2. Google Android, to some extent, has captured the attention of software developers and mobile device makers. It’s widely seen as the “open” alternative to the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Still, 36 percent of WorksWithU readers continue to express a strong interest in MIDs, according to WorksWithU reader poll concluded January 23, 2009. Concludes Canonical’s Carr: MIDs are “a category we are committed to and believe will succeed.”

Frankly, I agree with Carr. The reason: Apple’s iTouch (iPod Touch) proves there’s demand for WiFi-enabled mobile devices that aren’t traditional notebooks or smart phones.

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3 comments

  1. Avatar moorisson February 21, 2009 @ 3:10 am
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  2. Avatar Thibauld February 22, 2009 @ 11:01 pm
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    I was also in Barcelona last week, I thought Canonical would exhibit Ubuntu remix… I’m glad to see that even if they were not exhibiting, they were at least evangelizing behind the scenes 🙂

    I had the opportunity to test a lot of netbooks, most of them running win XP. The least I can say is that using windows on these devices is really hard to use because the winxp default ui is clearly not thought for 10” screens. Linux, given its price and versatility, definitely has a role to play on this market!

    I agree Android is getting a lot of attention right now, but it is only speculation so far and this netbook OS yet remains to be seen… when it will come out, it will probably be much different from the one for smartphones so I would wait until it is released before giving an opinion on it.

    Finally, I really think Linux is ideally positionned (and so is ubuntu) to be the best OS for online activities. It only lacks an easy way for users to personalize their environment but we’re working on it with allmyapps, an app store for linux. Indeed, it is very important that a linux netbook should not be more difficult to use than an iPhone/iTouch!

  3. Joe Joe July 9, 2009 @ 5:35 pm
    Reply

    It would be good to see ubuntu MID become an Automotive Standard for Car Stereo PC. Oh how I envision ubuntu MID that comes standards in the toyota prius…

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