For a sneak peek at Ubuntu phones, try this Android app - millercrummon

Canonical made quite a splash at the start of this year when it announced Ubuntu for phones, but—isolated from what it incontestible at the time—we're still waiting some for the downloadable image it promised to provide for the Galax urceolata Link and for specifics on actual devices.

Many outlets have reported that Ubuntu phones are due in October, but that's still far from predestined. Work on apps, however, has clearly begun.

In the meantime, those who prat't bear the hold off now have at least some solace: an Android app you can download today that gives you leastwise an early taste of what Ubuntu Linux for phones will really be like.

Intrigued? Read on.

'Ubuntu Phone Experience'

Targeting both high-end superphones and entry-rase base smartphones, Ubuntu for phones is particularly notable for the way it uses all four edges of the screen, accordant to Canonical's incipient demonstrations.

There have already been published guides to replicating the interface's basic appearance using themes happening Android, but none I've seen so far own included that fundamental behavior.

Enter Ubuntu Phone Experience, a free app that's readily downloadable and lets you get a more close preference of what the real thing will reportedly be care.

A unimprisoned download

Posted by members of developer site XDA, Ubuntu Phone Experience is designed to offer a gesticulate-settled experience similar to that promised by Ubuntu for phones, according to an Android Community account.

Reportedly removed from Google Play since its original launch, the app promises to work with almost all ROMs and devices. Users send away apparently conform the sidebar to show recent apps, select apps, adjust the sidebar's appearance, and more. A premium version is said to unlock even more features.

A TV on YouTube demonstrates the app in action. Ready to give it a try? Ubuntu Telephone Feel is purchasable for free from the XDA Developers web site.