webrtc with voice and video.

@gimenez
It looks great in my opinion. It does give a good oversight of all major features and subjects. It is easy to understand even for non geeks. Good job.

@ilija_zmaj
Correction to my previous post. It is true that I don't lose connection while I am in reach of my router. Once I lose that connection because I leave home, my phone will not connect to or find any wifi signal unless I reboot my phone. It seems that it just does not bother to search for possible connections.

@slyvan, I love unity7 and I love lomiri. Such a clever and intuitive design.

@lduboeuf said in "UbuntuTouch" name:

I remember a talk on AppDev channel about UbuntuTouch naming issue, can someone please explain me how it goes ?
If so are there any new name choosen ?

Google results for Ubuntu Touch:
About 49.900.000 results (0,55 seconds)
Why would you want to change the name?

@Rebecca58 "Video Chat" (Telegram ,Teleports - or Morph via WebRTC) - Ineed it badly, that means daily.

@domubpkm said in PinePhone:

@PINE64 Thank you for that clarification. Yes, it was mainly to find out if there would be the special edition with 3GB RAM and more storage. And there would be at least one customer (me! ). As for the units that will be put on the market, the number is interesting.

Make it two!!! and I believe many thousands more.

I definately will buy a pinephone in March. I have been using the Aquaris E5 and N5 for years now as my daily driver. They have never let me down so far. Yes I need "line", "skype" and "whatsapp" on the phone but that is ,sort of, promised for sometime this year. Ubports may be the most important project for Linux.

Merry Christmas everyone. Stay clear of Covid. See you all next year.

@ilija_zmaj
I switched over to rc channel. Wifi seems to be stable after 24 hours usage, thanks fore the advice.

@Moem That's a fair point. I wasn't trying to argue that Jami is necessarily superior to DeltaChat. DeltaChat is decentralized, supports voice and video calls, and has the advantage of building on existing email infrastructure.

What I find interesting about Jami is its fully peer-to-peer approach and focus on real-time communication without relying on servers operated by a provider. Whether that translates into practical advantages for Ubuntu Touch users is a separate question.

Ubuntu Touch could benefit from a well-integrated, convergence-friendly Jami client. A Jami snap package already exists which sadly lacks the convergency to make it workable on Ubuntu Touch.

@Moem Jami still requires an identity/account and the other party must also use Jami, so it does not solve the network-effect problem. What makes it interesting is its peer-to-peer architecture and lack of dependency on a central service provider. Whether that is an advantage over DeltaChat, Matrix, Signal, etc. depends on the use case.

Jami's main attraction is decentralized real-time communication with integrated voice and video, while DeltaChat builds on email and excels at asynchronous messaging."

@nbdynl We are already using system-level services:
Wi-Fi -> handled by OS
Bluetooth -> handled by OS
Notifications -> handled by OS
Audio -> handled by OS

Now extend that idea:
“Calls and real-time communication become a system service”

Jami is already available for windows, ios, android, linux (as a snap that can install on ubuntu touch but not convergeant)

@nbdynl You’re asking exactly the right hard question here — and it’s also the main reason this topic should get debated.
App-level messaging (what we have today)

What you described is correct:

FluffyChat → Matrix account needed
Element → Matrix account needed
Jitsi Meet → server/session needed
Delta Chat / Signal / Session / Threema → all rely on:
networks
identity systems
other users installing the same app

This is the ecosystem layer

And your conclusion is correct:
If your contacts don’t use it, the app is functionally irrelevant
That is a network effect problem, not a technical one.

Ubuntu Touch currently has multiple messaging solutions (FluffyChat, web apps, and Waydroid Android apps). We have come a long way, but these remain application-level solutions rather than a system-integrated real-time communication layer.

There is still no native system-level solution for real-time voice and video communication. Web apps and Android via Waydroid work, but are not integrated into the Lomiri UX.

I believe Jami could be worth exploring as a convergence-native communication stack to potentially fill this gap, with deeper integration into Lomiri.

@UBportsNews my thanks to everyone who made this release possible. So far it looks great and feels great. First time that we are level with the actual ubuntu lts. congratulations.

@arubislander . You are a genious. Thank you.

@messayisto. No. There is no way to go back because the fastboot command is blocked. Using volume + power button or every trick in the book.
But I just realized this is the wrong channel since I am using the Lenovo tablet X306X M10 HD LTE.

After installing the from the rc 24.04 channel on my Lenovo M10 HD LTE I realised that the overall response of the OS was very sluggish. So I thought to revert to the proven 20.04 channel. Now comes the problem: The fastboot mode is not accessible any more. I followed and tried every link in the net. Unfortunately there is no downgrade option in the update menu. Any proven suggestions?

After installing the from the rc 24.04 channel I noticed that the overall response of the OS is very sluggish. So I thought to revert to the proven 20.04 channel. Now comes the problem: The fastboot mode is not accessible any more. I followed and tried every link in the net. Unfortunately there is no downgrade option in the update menu. Any proven suggestions?