Ubuntu Touch Q&A 103 Saturday 3rd July At 19:00 UTC

[Stefan Hammes]

The Vollaphone is one of the supported devices for UT.
The Vollaphone is manufactured by Gigaset, a German company.
Would the UBPorts-installer install UT on another Gigaset phone, such as the GS4 as well?
The Gigaset GS4 seems to be very similar to the Vollaphone.

[Lakotaubp]

@stefan-hammes For a full history on this subject please see https://forums.ubports.com/topic/4686/i-asekd-at-vollaphone-to-purchase-an-image-for-gigaset-gs290/25 and https://forums.ubports.com/topic/4556/volla-phone-identical-to-gigaset-gs290 also https://forums.ubports.com/topic/6234/volla-phone-x-announced-rugged-phone-running-ut/15

[A Former User]

In the second half of the year, will lomiri Desktop start to provide a packaged version for development build on 20.04?

[kugiigi]

Is the XFone for real? It's seems sketchy, promising and scary all at the same time :grinning_squinting_face:

Promising, that UT is being adapted by a company. Sketchy, that I don't really know the company and their statements seem confusing to me. Scary, that it seems like they're putting proprietary stuffs in UT and somewhat changing it for their own and there's a post that they forked mir to fix external display support which they are saying is not working but it does on Nexus 5, right? LOL

[Keneda]

@kugiigi
You are talking about that https://xfonemobile.com/hardware-specifications/ ?

[antiform]

about security,
if anbox become famous,
are selinux used or apparmor?
erfan anbox implementation is big security hole i think

is morph browser security part uptodate?

[dobey]

@keneda Ah, seems to be new iteration of the previous "SageTea" sketchy thing.

AFAIK, there is no association with UBports, and they aren't involved in Ubuntu Touch in any way.

[Keneda]

@dobey
Sagetea is the company name yes.

Very sad this kind of move, hope their work, if there really is, will be open source and you can use it as they use yours...

[Stefan Hammes]

@lakotaubp
Hello Lakotaubp, thank you very much for your fast answer.
I did not know that flashing UT on another Gigaset phone is such a politicum. Me, I bought a Vollaphone via the Kickstarter campain and since a year now I work as a beta tester with many issues posted to get the Vollaphone work well with UT. But the vollaphone is still buggy with UT and I want to see UT on other (Gigaset-) devices, which meanwhile have a better hardware quality.

[Keneda]

@stefan-hammes said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 103 Saturday 3rd July At 19:00 UTC:

I did not know that flashing UT on another Gigaset phone is such a politicum.

That's not flashing on another Gigaset that is politicum i believe, that's flashing a GS290 wich is the same as VollaPhone, and soon it'd be the same with GX290+...

But anyone is allowed to do whatever they wan't and UBports will not make it not possible.

Anyway, for your original question, if someone is willing to port uTouch to a GS4, wich is not the same as GS290/GX290+/VollaPhone(s), i don't see why this could be politicum. But port will have to be done quite from scratch as it's not the same hardware, and "similar" is not enough, but nothing can prevent you to test flashing a GS4 with a VollaPhone port lol.

[AppLee]

@stefan-hammes
To summarize on that topic:
1- Discussion about flashing UT on GS290 are available for reference

• https://forums.ubports.com/topic/4686/i-asekd-at-vollaphone-to-purchase-an-image-for-gigaset-gs290/25
• https://forums.ubports.com/topic/4556/volla-phone-identical-to-gigaset-gs290
• https://forums.ubports.com/topic/6234/volla-phone-x-announced-rugged-phone-running-ut/15
  2- About Ubuntu Touch on other Gigaset devices:
  This is possible, it requires a custom port for each device.
  You can have more information in the porting documentation there: https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/porting/index.html
  3- Your question was not answered during the live because it fell under "question on porting to device ****"

Not to avoid further unrelated discussion I'll lock this thread and invite you to open a new one in the appropriate category if anyone still has questions.