The First Ubuntu Phone Arrives Next Week

The Ubuntu phone will go on sale next week. That's the good news. The bad news is that it will only be sold through online flash sales and, even worse, it is not being sold in the U.S. yet.

Where Canonical and BQ are hoping to break the mould is with their software and sales strategy. Taking a page from the playbook of Chinese firms such as Xiaomi, the first Ubuntu handset will be sold, at least to begin with, through a series of online flash sales. The first of these is next week and a handful of European carriers will be offering special SIM bundles to early adopters.

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