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Canonical announces a project to help Ubuntu smartphone with over 10 core applications. The project, named the CoreApps Project, sets its sight on launching phone with over a dozen default applications. As a privately-held computer software company, Canonical Ltd. markets commercial support and related services for Ubuntu and related projects. Since its launch in 2004, Canonical presently employs over 500 staff in more than 30 countries. Their offices can be located in London, Boston, Taipei, Montreal, Shanghai, São Paulo and the Isle of Man. Ubuntu, on the other hand, is a computer operating system distributed for free and open space software using its own desktop environment. Having developed by Canonical, they generate revenues through the sale of technical support and services related to Ubuntu. Canonical releases new Ubuntu versions every six months, developing security fixes, patches to critical bugs and minor updates to programs. Just this 2012, according to online surveys, Ubuntu is most popular Linux distribution on desktop/laptop personal computers. Now, Canonical helps Ubuntu launch its new smartphone. This phone, according to Ubuntu, "is more immersive, the screen is less cluttered, and you flow naturally from app to app with edge magic. The phone becomes a full PC and thin client when docked." Essential applications include, calculator, calendar, clock/alarm, weather and email client. Aside from the essential applications, social networking apps, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, add value to this new smartphone. Account and file manager, document viewer and RSS reader are also included in the applications list of the said smartphone. The phone has "Everything you expect in a phone" as it includes native applications covering all the essentials you expect in a phone: telephony and voicemail, SMS and MMS, email, web browsing, photography, music and video. See: NewSat: One of Australia's Satellite Communications Companies
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