Nope, the Ubuntu phones started shipping before Microsoft even revealed their Continuum plans.
Windows Phone has had this for a bit now, I believe they beat Ubuntu to market with it.https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17280/windows-10-mobile-continuumhttp://www.pcworld.com/article/3065895/windows/windows-continuum-how-i-survived-a-week-using-a-windows-10-phone-as-my-pc.html
Ubuntu phones (and tablets) offer what no other device does: convergence. That is, you can add a keyboard, mouse, and external monitor and you have a laptop. You can develop natively right on the device with a full desktop environment, then pick it up and go and catch up on email and messages while you travel.Ubuntu Phone:
I might probably wait for the next release If I'm going with this one. Other the high spec, multi tasking, camera, what else does Ubuntu have that makes it different?
Nevertheless, they're not comparable, because the Microsoft phones are still not a full desktop, they only run a very limited set of applications. I can run The GIMP, LibreOffice, Firefox, and Unity-3D on my Ubuntu phone just like on my desktop, and they run just fine. In fact, I can install *anything* that runs on Ubuntu on my desktop or phone if the developers have bothered building for ARM not just x86 (Steam, I'm looking at you).
Sure you can install it. What percentage of desktop apps have usability issues on the phone though until you plug in a keyboard and mouse?
Generally a phone and pc ux and expectations are different.
Also how does running desktop apps affect battery life, does it go from several days to several hours very quickly and more into laptop territory?