Setting a new record as the highest-earning fixed crowd funding
campaign on Indiegogo, a total amount of $10,288,472 (approximately £6.6
million) has, thus far, been generated in pledges by London-based
developer Canonical for its Ubuntu Edge smartphone.
The money raised by the Canonical Ubuntu Edge smartphone in its
Indeigogo crowdfunding campaign has surpassed the record set by the
Pebble smartwatch last year. Pebble had raised a total of $10,266,845 in
its crowdfunding campaign.
However, with the Ubuntu Edge crowdfunding campaign scheduled to end
on August 21, Canonical is far from its achieving its overall funding
target of $32 million. If the developer fails to reach the funding goal,
it will have to return all the money to the backers.
In case Canonical is successful in achieving the funding target of
its Ubuntu Edge smartphone campaign on the Indiegogo crowdfunding
website, it plans to deliver 40,000 handsets to qualifying backers by
May 2014.
Noting that the public interest in the Ubuntu Edge smartphone is
apparently quite high - with the handset having reportedly caught the
attention of phone enthusiasts as well as innovators, futurists and
device-makers -, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth said in an
interview woth the BBC: "The campaign has sparked a level of interest
that has surprised even us." [via]
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