I would like a feature implemented that allows you to have 2 background images. Select one for portrait mode and another for landscape mode. For example now I have a picture set as background which looks fine vertically, but when I flip the phone horizontally the image gets cropped and doesn't look right so it would be nice to to have an alternate image display for landscape.

@MrT10001 Those would be perfect. Yes they are designed for laptop or PC but should work alone with a tablet or phone as long as whatever drivers/software are there, which makes your statement correct because it probably wouldn't be, and speaking of that it probably wouldn't even work on my laptops because I have linux and not windows. That being said anyway I just got done with chat at straighttalk and was informed they don't offer plans for those devices anyway & I would have to get a mobile hotspot device and plan for that anyway.

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I just hate thinking that in order to use my phone with ubuntu touch in any meaningful way I would have to now carry around two separate devices with me that have to stay charged.

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Also I don't know why the heck they are so picky and nosy about what devices you use. Never gone thru that with home internet. I don't understand why here in the US you can't just get a sim card, buy a 4G data plan & put it in whatever the heck device you want to. Cause if that was the case I would just have a data plan & be using my phone that way now with just data.

@MrT10001 Thanks, basically it was what I was asking for just never heard of it called SIP i've always just heard of VoIP like with services like google voice number & when was able to call phone numbers with Yahoo Messenger way back in the day. Thank you for clearing it up. Speaking of WIFI hotspot that may be my only option to be able to use my phones with ubuntu touch as I don't think I'm going to be able to get them to have phone service or just a tablet plan with them. The other option I'm thinking is this https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-an-aircard-818325 finding an aircard meant for devices like laptops & tablets but then that is something I'd have to keep plugged into the phone & probably with an adapter depending on the USB port.

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For example this card isn't USB-C so would have to have an adapter to plug it in to my pixel 3a. Also I didn't see any option on straighttalk when I looked to sign up for service with an aircard so I would have to find alternative for service with it. https://www.ebay.com/itm/224551936685?epid=1622974835&itmmeta=01HR09MZXGJX2JG22PJ5H1NYJR&hash=item344856a2ad:g:-J0AAOSwwvhhAZzo&itmprp=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwAnkYFoEcJILDeIQr%2BSY%2BMDPSGZ%2B5DD%2FqTqxWmPEYWn3yyQQlWlwL4ci%2F3VJd1XFWE%2BRqMX1OAk1vn3NZeRyHaU%2FfOa5r5%2Fm85iwc03VhY%2FXwWddLU8x28PTxt94uC355v8aNHP3Kj5y9MNNiAUKCLvA34y1K4bpQBYHokZIFrhZbJrGTlKPLzdaQiF00MA4bzrGBxO9J48YF6sF9bHzHvJzov0E97YshOARejzGqZzsw8rOd4I9DiEyYb9Adym%2FhQ%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR5T_04nAYw

@Moem PS, what is SIP?

@Moem Thanks. I'm in the US. I was using a OnePlus One phone for about a year then started getting notifications that my phone would be incompatible with the network in 2022, and haven't been able to go back to Ubuntu Touch since due to this.

Update to my question. I went on straighttalk website & discovered that to even get a tablet plan you must have a 5G capable tablet. Why are they so picky? Why can I have an only 4G capable phone and use data but to use a tablet they want me to have to have a 5G capable one. The only 2 phones I have that work with ubuntu touch(OnePlus One & Pixel 3a XL aren't 5G phones. Here is the screenshot from straighttalk.

Does anyone know of a carrier that allows the use of only 4G capable tablets & do you know if it would work if get a plan from them & use phone as tablet?

UPDATE:
Even without the first thing I mentioned, getting a VoIP service/app like Google Voice(and I mean like Google Voice but not, I hate google) for the phones, the biggest thing would be able to just get data on them so we can still use them like a tablet because I basically use my phone like that anyway I hardly ever actually make a call with it. But VoIP would be nice.

If the VoLTE implementation is going to take some time I believe we need a work around for this.

I had a OnePlus One phone & like others got text it would no longer be supported by my carrier.

My question is this? Would carriers allow you to use these same phones they are saying is incompatible with the network if we only wanted to buy just data service and use them as a tablet instead of a phone?

And if so would it be easier to work on a solution for us to have VoIP service in that case just kind of like before you could have services such as Google Voice on a phone and use that service just like your normal phone service thru your data?

I think that would be a good solution as long as whatever app/service has no privacy concerns.

@kugiigi Thank you for your responses. I gave SteamOS a try & I do think it is a great experience and I like it very much just like scrolling the TV with a game console which is basically what I wanted as to avoid the Xbox. My goal was to get away from big-tech. I had a chromebook which I done away with and now use a laptop with Linux Mint. Now have a phone with Ubuntu Touch. Already had a desktop with Linux Mint but now also have SteamOS so I can spend less time with big-tech devices/software.

The only issue I have with SteamOS(would have had same issues with Ubuntu TV) is that there aren't any desktop apps for TV streaming services. Trying to avoid Netflix anyway, but Netflix and Hulu I think both used to have desktop apps for Linux and each discontinued the apps. I would be happy though with Crackle or Popcornflix but there aren't any apps there either. SlingTV has a desktop app for Windows 10, but not Linux. This is the only drawback so far as I am trying to have a solution like what I had on Xbox, but using Linux instead. I did manage to get Kodi installed in SteamOS but I would much rather have apps from the actual companies than to use Kodi, but atleast I can scroll through Kodi with my gamepad just like I would the streaming services apps, because trying to do this with a browser sucks. Hopefully these companies will go back to making Linux apps in the future.

I think I will download and install SteamOS on my desktop alongside Linux Mint and Windows this weekend and give that a try. I don't know what I was thinking, but that is probably the best solution for me and is probably exactly what I have been looking for all along.

@kugiigi https://plasma-bigscreen.org/ seems like a great option but I'm actually more turned off by the voice controls but I guess that can be disabled hopefully. Also it appears to be for ARM processors only, but I guess I would still be able to game with steam because isn't the Nvidia Shield ARM based? If so I wonder if it would be possible to put plasma bigscreen on an Nvidia Shield as I would guess it has better CPU & GPU than Raspberry Pi. Then my next question though would be whether or not Steam would be available on plasma bigscreen. I really wish someone would just develop a shell for Ubuntu that has a nice TV interface, so that way I can just use everything available on my computer, the applications, the processing power, GPU, tuner cards, steam app, etc. that already work with Ubuntu, but have a nice TV user interface to scroll around the TV on.

@kugiigi I just got done looking at it, and I think this would be great. You are talking about KDE Plasma Bigscreen correct? I am a bit confused as to whether this is an OS or a shell for an OS as when I first started searching about it I just typed in KDE plasma and results came up for installing it in ubuntu and I thought that would be terrific, but then saw the screenshots which looked like a desktop computer shell, not for TVs. So kept digging until I saw Plasma Bigscreen but still looking around at different articles about it, but so far looks great.