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@aimar Checked with Volla customer service yesterday re delivery and their reply was that the tablet with UT was not ready to ship yet. Only shipping the tablet with Volla OS. They did not give any idea when it will be ready.
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@DenMoore I think most likely depends on Ubuntu 24.04. So wait..
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@aimar I wouldn't get my hopes high about wireless display. Currently, the compatibility is finicky in UT. Only Microsoft Wireless Adapters are known to reliably work while other adapters would be a lottery. And even if it works, it's not good for "desktop" use if that's what you want. Input lag/latency is not good with wireless display, even in Android it won't be a good experience.
Anyway, it seems like most, if not all Volla devices don't have wired display out support, interestingm I wonder why
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@domubpkm, on Jan 24th Volla wrote:
"We expect to start shipping the Volla Tablet with Ubuntu Touch at the end of the month. Ubuntu Touch runs perfectly on the device. We will provide two features with a system update:- The easy installation and use of Ubuntu desktop apps with Ubuntu Touch Noble based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- The support of VoLTE"
With the answer @DenMoore got, I wonder if you have to buy a tablet with Volla OS and then instal Ubuntu on it by yourself (via system update). In their shop you choose the OS but it seems that they will send you the same.
I would appreciate more transparency. This community will not be blinded by marketing but by specs and freedom. I do not mind delays and I prefer real facts.
@kugiigi, I pretend to project interactive presentations, in which I will draw and I will manipulate 3D models. A noticeable lagging is undesirable.
I mentioned wireless connection because the Lenovo Tab M10 HD 2nd Gen Wifi 4G/64GB has that feature. I prefer being free of wires, but if the connection has a noticeable lag, I would not mind a wired connection. However, as I see in the devices page, among all the phones only Fairphone 4 has that feature.
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@aimar All devices are capable of wireless display however it may depend on the port if it's enabled or working. Wired display out is a hardware feature though so you can't just implement it.
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@kugiigi Got it! Thank you. It seems a lost battle though.
On the one hand, if the wireless mirroring is so disappointing I guess, and I understand, the developers will focus their efforts on more useful issues.
On the other hand, if wired mirroring depends on hardware, there is nothing to do, since it seems that the new promoted devices (except FP4) are not prepared for such feature.
I really miss convergence for a tablet. The only ones that have a wired mirroring feature are the old BQ Aquaris M10. I own a BQ E4.5 and Morph crashes a lot (although I will keep using it until its pieces fall apart). I suppose it is due to its low RAM, but I do not think a second hand BQ M10 will do better now. My presentations rely on HTML+CSS+JS so I would create a webapp with Weber, pointing to my presentations.
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@aimar Yeah, 1GB or even 2GB of RAM isn't enough these days. UT may still work relatively smoothly but multitasking with multiple apps especially browsers/webapps would be a struggle.
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I got my UT tablet a few days ago. I miss a few things like easy printer support or a working password manager solution. Location takes a while to kick in with uNav but it works. And the pen is at least now not yet supported by UT, which was not mentioned in the shop. But I'm happy to have a Linux tablet that works!
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If I'm not mistaken printing is work in progress, so that could land in Ubuntu Touch in a not so distant future.
For A-GPS, that is a know issue as well as the pen which is pretty rare, hence lack of support at the moment.
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@AppLee these are drawbacks I can live with. I'll keep the pen just in case and maybe there will be solutions once there is support for desktop apps. For now it's just great to have a Ubuntu tablet.
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There's a keepass app but it doesn't support auto-typing so you have to manually copy.
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Now listed and described here: https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/mimir/
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Got my Volla Tablet with UT some days back. UT works pretty fine but i am not able to get waydroid to run.
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@Player1 Not a surprise if we trust the device description:
https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/mimir/Let's hope it happens in the near future.
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@libremax The tablet really doesn't have a fingerprint reader? That seems like an automatic feature these days
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@kugiigi Not necessarily. My brand new Xiaomi Redmi Pad Pro (2024), under HyperOS 2.1, does not have any fingerprint sensor, but does have an ocular biometric recognition instead. (Don't know about Volla tablet)
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@kugiigi Don't know; I can't find a full specifications list.
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@stanwood Ocular? is that face unlock or eyes?
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@kugiigi Well, I don't know how exactly this works (I deactivate that stuff). The system scans eyes and face, but no idea how it handles this behind the scene...
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@kugiigi Although the device itself has not support for a wired external connection, would it be possible to achieve it through a slimport adapter?
Does this adapter provide the required hardware for any device?
I have been searching in the forum and found that the success with a slimport adapter is not a constant. It always depends ...
