Ubuntu Touch Q&A 132 Call for Questions

[UBportsNews]

Ubuntu Touch Q&A 132

Ubuntu Touch Q&A 132 is planned for this Saturday 20th Jan at 19:00 UTC so it's time for your questions.

Post questions below, but please remember that questions on porting to device **** or its status, and questions on bugs will not be answered.

[TheVancedGamer]

@UBportsNews When will Epics on GitLab be properly managed to indicate current features/issues being worked on, who's working on them, since when is it being worked on and the estimate for completion?
This could accelerate development because contributors wouldn't be asking around to see if someone is already working on X feature or Y issue, they could just check there and instead find something that isn't being actively tackled, and then proceed to polish that up.

[padraic]

@UBportsNews It's great to see that Canonical have a renewed emphasis on Snapd on other Linux distributions.

Would it make sense to approach Zygmunt to see if this might extend to work with Ubports?

[Equareo]

What are you looking forward to in 24.04?

[alagirialagiri]

I feel the airplane mode toggle-switch position may be shifted to some other place so that accidental switching ON/OFF of airplane mode avoided. Is there any mobile device without android ,So that We can install UT and use. We have not got VoLTE so far but now 5G is going to replace VoLTE.Why not we go far higher side.Is it not possible? Also why not we go for pre installed UT devices with dual boot functions?

[MrT10001]

@alagirialagiri Getting hardware off the ground is an enormous task, getting it running with a non Android based system is even harder. Canonical had tried that with UT and partnered with BQ, before things took a turn for the worse and they passed UT over to open source enthusiasts, hence the UBports Foundation arose. Volla, Pine and Fairphone are the answer to possible dual booting, but these devices are not cheap and lack the support of a market that likes their Apple and Android devices.

It is a massive topic and their are many issues that UT needs to resolve, much like Android in the early years.

VoLTE is interesting as there is no set standard used by each device manufacturer so it would have to be reverse engineered for that device and then implemented which is time consuming and difficult.

5G is still not the next step it has been cracked up to be. I find most of the time my Android 5G will revert to 4G and speed up.

As one said before, Android phones are for Android, we need a UT phone, but it will require a lot of time, money and patience and would be niche in a market dominated by Apple and Google.

[alagirialagiri]

@MrT10001 Yes agreed.Let us have best from available devices.Thank you.