@ollehell first of all, maybe you can change your post title to something less inflammatory? Thank you.

I don't have an FP2, I have a BQ E4.5 and a Nexus 5, an based on those models and my needs, I can tell you:

• The battery life is pretty good, specially in krillin and good enough to use hammerhead as my daily driver without any issue.
• With the exception of these well-known issues: https://github.com/ubports/morph-browser/issues, I don't have any relevant problem with Morph. It works great for me.
• Every app that I need works fine.
• I don't use anbox, I don't like anbox, and I don't like Android apps, so I can't comment on this point really.

The future will be what we (all of us, a.k.a. the community) make of it. This is a volunteer based project, so if you want to get a better experience "for you" you have to do your part too

My suggestion for a 5 minute task: confirm (or not) one of the issues labeled 'needs confirmation' https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A"needs+confirmation"

Good news for all of you developing apps for UT: @bhdouglass has released a new version of Clickable.

Please see http://blog.bhdouglass.com/clickable/ubuntu-touch/2018/10/03/clickable-5-0-0.html to get a general overview, and this http://clickable.bhdouglass.com/en/latest/changelog.html to read the full changelog.

You can support Brian's developing effort here https://liberapay.com/bhdouglass

This General category is for organizational or general discussion only but I'm seeing a lot of questions here that really should be posted on Support category.

So, please, when posting on the Forum choose the right category! Thank you.

@stefano as I see it, the current situation is that there are a lot of people willing to do testing (me included) but there's just a small bunch of developers. Yes, a really really small bunch.

It's understandable, we all want more and want it now, but the danger is to put too much pressure on developers, and that's my main concern.

We all should focus in the primary goal now, the transition to 16.04, and then we can ask the developers for all the bell and whistles.

I hope you understand what I'm trying to say, I'm happy to see such energy in our vibrant community, but with our current manpower we have to choose our priorities wisely.

https://twitter.com/Mariogrip/status/1179818297463906304

@wlbi I've read your post several times and I honestly don't understand it.

You know perfectly well this is a 100% volunteer based project, but in spite of that you're saying something like I don't want to spend time or money in this project but you guys have to give me more powerful hardware.

Yes, trying to develop a secure and privacy focused OS for mobiles devices is not an easy task, but for most of us falling in the spyware trap and spend the kind of money you need to buy a S8 or S9 (and wait for others to solve my problems) is not the solution for sure.

Finally, what do you think is the main reason why there isn't more «new and powerful hardware»? That nobody cares or all that proprietary and closed software&hardware crap that makes so hard the porting?

If you want a change in the current mobile devices landscape, you have to be part of the change movement

@unisuperbox I understand the decision but it would be so cool a live Q&A show streamed from Ubucon

@dtarrant no, there's no way to know that because UT doesn't track their users

I think we UT users are security & privacy minded people, and one of our concerns is about how our browsers are managing cookies currently.

I know that even the big boys are having problems in this field, see https://wholeftopenthecookiejar.eu/ for example, but our users can't even delete cookies in an easy way.

So the question is, which is the plan to make a more secure & private browser for UT, and to make its privacy settings user friendly?

Thank you for your work!!

@dtarrant the internal search engine of the forum is rubbish. The search result could be improve (to some extent) if people used tags though.

What I do is to use an external search engine but narrowing down the search to this forum.

For example https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nexus+4+site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fforums.ubports.com%2F&t=hj&ia=web that is, go to DDG, type your query and then site:https://forums.ubports.com

Yes, lets move to GitLab, the Github acquisition by Microsoft is just like the perfect excuse but if we were starting from scratch I would vote for GitLab over Github.

I also agree with @NeoTheThird statement. It's worth the move but there is no need to be in a hurry.

@dtarrant you can copy ~/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system/contacts.db from one device to another

@Mic_ addressbook, calendar, memos, and tasks databases are at ~/.local/share/evolution/

@davidcolombo hi, nice reflection.

But theres not even an own dedicated Twitter or Instagram Account for Ubuntu Touch.

Nope, UBports has official accounts in Twitter and Instagram too

If I don't forget anything, this is the social media list:

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ubports
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ubports/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/UBports
• Google+: https://plus.google.com/+UBports
• Mastodon: https://mastodon.rocks/@UBports
• Diaspora: UBports@diasp.org
• Matrix: #ubports:matrix.org
• Mailing List: https://ubports.com/page/subscribe
• Telegram Supergroup: https://ubports.com/telegram

@ierihon next steps for OTA-6. We're getting closer

https://gitlab.com/groups/ubports/-/epics/5

See this specially https://gitlab.com/ubports/marketing/writers/news-blog-posts/issues/7

@iamnotarobot porting UT to other devices is WIP, and HTC10 and OnePlus 5T are pretty close to be the next big thing.

BUT N5 is more than good enough to be a reference device, specially for things like this

Yes, that's a N5 in convergence mode

(Thank you Milan for the picture!)

@ellypsis look for the broken symlink that is created when you uninstalled a pre-installed app in /opt/click.ubuntu.com/

Delete that symlink and reboot your device and the removed app will be available again

I've just finished listening the talk right now. @NeoTheThird great job!

@chdslv BQ E4.5, E5, and Meizu Pro 5 have (had) a Ubuntu Edition from factory.

We the community are trying to port UT to some devices running Android currently, but we're trying to port it to Pine64 devkit, Raspberry Pi, and some other devices as well, including Librem5 devkit (soon).

On the other hand, UT is not a ROM.

Fairphone 2 and Oneplus Ones are more "flagship devices" than the Nexus models nowadays.

Finally, I'm pretty happy with how long lasts the battery in my N5. The combo new battery + xenial are doing wonders for a device that even when running Android doesn't have the best battery life in the world