Ubuntu Touch UT tablets with phone functionality
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Hello, Dear UT Porters, Developers and Users
1). I'd love to have an Ubuntu Touch UT tablet with a typical phone functionality
2). To be honest, I find the 5-6 inch screen of a typical smartphone too small. To dial a number it's big enough but when you want to run an application then I find it uncomfortable that I have such a limited space and a very small font.
3). Ubuntu has a Big Potential which is difficult to fit into a small smartphone screen - e.g. the web browser, mail client, navigation, terminal, the Libertine Programs and many others.
4). Well, we could buy two devices, a smartphone and a tablet but for me it would be great to have a 2-in-1 UT tablet with a SIM card (for internet connectivity), with an 8-10-12 inches screen
5). When talking about Android, I can see that some of these devices are actually tablets (some of them has even a dedicated pen), with phone functionality, like mentioned for example here:
5.1). https://www.phonearena.com/news/7-tablets-with-phone-functionality-you-can-call-them-giant-smartphones_id59182
5.2). https://www.amazon.com/tablets-cell-phone-capability/s?k=tablets+with+cell+phone+capability
5.3). https://www.techyv.com/article/top-10-tablets-with-phone-functionality-you-can-call-them-giant-smartphones/
6). Moreover, it seems to me that maybe any tablet which has the SIM based internet built in could become such a big Ubuntu Touch Smartphone, if someone would be able to port it - correct?
7). Dear Ubuntu Touch Friends Is there any chance that any such a tablet could be ported to 20.04 ?
8). I'm asking that question because I cannot find anything relevant nor via google "tablet SIM site:forums.ubports.com" neither when I use our Forum's Search Function... "Tablet SIM" | "Tablet LTE" | "Tablet 5G"...I wish you All the Best and kind regards ~~ Piotrek~~pe3no.
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@pe3noATo2DOTpl Tablets SIM functionality is not voice, it is data. The idea that it is a giant phone is using voice over data apps, so it is not normal phone functionality. The Linux mobile community is still struggling to get voice over 4G (LTE or VoLTE), which will hopefully arrive soon thanks to their tremendous effort.
There is also the hardware, so a lot of phone hardware is aimed at voice as well as data, whereas a tablet modem is aimed at data.
Also a lot of countries are closing the 2G/3G networks to free up network bandwidth and concentrating on LTE and 5G (the US is a good example).I have played with 2 ported tablets with sims, Nexus 7(deb) and the 605L and voice and phone functionality is basically nil, unless you use an app service (SKYPE is an example).
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