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Is Ubuntu Phone targetting 4K UHD video capturing???


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Howard Chan
published Jan. 17, 2013, 5:34 a.m.


Today I went into the usual strolling along Launchpad and IRC and such (and still moaning about not being able to download any Android 4.0 or up source code) and found something interesting when I visited the Launchpad page of Ubuntu.

In the "Newest Blueprints" section there is a blueprint called "Ubuntu Phone: Enable the ability to film 4K UHD video on 8.5-megapixel or greater mobile cameras".

That was surprising, so I clicked in the blueprint to have a look.

It's contents say: "Given that 4K UHD video is essentially the equivalent of an ~8.29-megapixel still image and that most mobile cameras in 2012 to begin with were already 8 megapixels, the cameras in 2013 and beyond will most certainly only increase in resolution. So, as the still image resolutions increase, so also should the video resolutions to match it. And the still image resolutions should easily exceed 8.5 megapixels in 2013 and beyond, perhaps going as high as 9 or 10 megapixels, making 4K video recording most certainly possible."

Ubuntu Phone 4K UHD blueprint

Clearly Canonical is aiming high on this, especially 4K UHD TVs are only starting to become the newest media attention in Customer Electronics Show 2013, and was possibly going to be a trend -- one or two years later.

Canonical announced the Ubuntu Phone project in January 2, 2013, with this blueprint being registered 1 day later. The source code and a ROM suitable to be installed on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus will be ready by late February.