It would be a nice device. It appears that KDE wants to support it. I wonder how difficult it would be to run UB on such a device. Much easier than on any other?

@WLBI You will be able to use larger displays later on, if you want. BTW: David Hunt made a PiPhone 3 years ago ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eaiNsFhtI8 ) ... With some optimization, which the ZeroPhone does, this really is a complete handheld computer and phone. Maybe even almost entirely open source soon, because open GPU-drivers are coming along, and there are efforts for an open firmware.

Perfect:

• open hardware (ok, thats not the OS) from fair production (Hello, Fairphone)
• open source OS (meaning Gnu/Linux, incl. drivers and firmwares, if possible, and long term updates)
• as little dependencies on Android and vendors as possible
• convergence would be a nice-to-have

Because this does not exist atm, I do not own a smartphone. Still thinking, if I should get a Fairphone or a Neo 900 (unclear, what's happening there) or a Zerophone). Or if I should wait, if ever some crowdfunding project will offer, what I want.

@Mitu said in A vision of where to go after Ubuntu Touch's death:

Someone has already forked the Unity 8 here: https://unity8.org/

The 'someone' is Marius Gripsgård...

Move the Unity8 from Mir to Wayland

Main question to me: really to get rid of Mir (very difficult) OR make MIR Wayland-compatible (still not easy)? See also: http://voices.canonical.com/alan.griffiths/2017/04/07/the-end-of-a-dream/

@Thatoo Thanks for the link. Sound promising, as M. Gripsgard also mentions...:
https://plus.google.com/110699558853693437587/posts/AJC19V4EyX8

@MariusQuabeck FYI: https://forum.fairphone.com/t/fairphone-2-ubuntu-touch/23475

@NeoTheThird I have difficulties seeing this dock becoming a success, because there are way too few devices running UB, and not a single community port is feature complete. And it's difficult to say, if Android users will like this dock....

FYI:
https://forum.fairphone.com/t/fairphone-2-ubuntu-touch/23475

@apple.muncy With regards to the FP2-problem, Marius Quabeck just answered that "it's not working atm because the adb/fastboot part is "incomplete". The port is also not really well running so I think I will remove the fairphone soon."*

*(See comments there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhKLfmBWE9w )

https://github.com/MariusQuabeck/magic-device-tool/blob/master/README.md

"Fairphone 2 (FP2) !!May not work!!"

I guess, someone tried it, and it did not work. Don't know, if it works now...

Cheap sells, because most people are not rich. Most of these phones (the feature phones) were not really that insecure because you could not do a lot with them. I still have a feature phones, and I will keep it, until the Ubuntu port for the Fairphone 2 is mature..

@ChloeWolfieGirl said in Any news of the Oneplus 3 porting project?:

We have 3 people working on the OP3 port but they are all volunteers and Marius is focusing on the OnePlus One, FairPhone and Nexus 5 currently, though I know he's extremely excited to work on the OnePlus 3, he just wants to get those devices fully working and on the stable branch first

It would very nice, if Marius could give an update what progress he is making (I am especially interested in the Fairphone, and a lot of Fairphone user are quite interested in the Ubuntu Port, too)...

Thanks!

Hi Semi, thanks. Sounds good.

Hi,
as an long term Ubuntu user on desktops, I thought it might be time to get in touch with Ubuntu touch. From what I have read, Nexus 4 is still the best device for now, because other phones are not reference devices. At first, I thought of getting started with Ubuntu touch on a Nexus 5, because its somewhat newer and faster and its not that much more expensive (f.i. ebay) than a Nexus 4. Also, I have seen that KDE's Plasma-mobile reference is (for some reason) the Nexus 5. On the other hand, again, I have read that battery life of Ubuntu touch on the Nexus 5 is rather bad (don't know, how it is on the Nexus 4...).

So, that leaves me a bit with doubts, which Nexus I should get. Any advice?