Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical which develops Ubuntu, has said that the smartphones running Ubuntu mobile operating systems "will come out in the mid-higher edge, so $200 to $400."
"We are going with the higher end because we want people who are looking for a very sharp, beautiful experience and because our ambition is to be selling the future PC, the future personal computing engine."

Canonical expects to have its highest-end Ubuntu phone to become full PCs when docked with a monitor, mouse and keyboard. The company has already tied up with phone manufacturers like Meizu and BQ earlier this year to produce the first Ubuntu smartphones. Recently, Canonical failed to raise $32m earlier in an effort to develop the Ubuntu Edge which would have been a premium smartphone with prices ranging from $600 to $830.

The firm is yet to reveal the specs of the upcoming phones that will be developed by Meizu and BQ. A Canonical spokesperson has confirmed to Ars Technica that the prices quoted by Shuttleworth for the upcoming smartphones are the off-contract, unsubsidized guide prices.