It's beginning now.

@wally Device website has been updated. Example with FP5: https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/fp5/
The status for each device will still need to be set; hopefully in the coming weeks depending on energy of contributors to write MRs.

@jezek FOSS on Mobile events are scheduled only Saturday 31...
Ok, I see now thanks, I replaced February by January

It's Saturday 31 January: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/foss-on-mobile/

@arubislander imho, what is unhelpful is obscurity not clarity.
Heard again today at restaurant: "Windows is produced by a very large company... Linux is produced by independents; they do what they can."

With the current communication about Ubuntu Touch (which doesn't make explicit the extent of the resources involved in building it), the newcomer may believe that it's something cooked up by a dozen or so guys and therefore has no chance of getting anywhere near the competitors.

It would also be good for UT users to know that they are using a complex and valuable system.
Properly informed, donors could be more numerous or more generous.

A more realistic presentation of Ubuntu Touch and its scope could also help to attract more developers who would be proud to be involved in building a cathedral rather than a shack.

We often read that Ubuntu Touch is developed by a small handful [5,10] of developers mostly in their spare time.
This is problematic because it can give the impression of "amateurism" far from "professional" quality standards.
In reality, Ubuntu Touch assembles a very large number of components, including the Linux kernel, GNU components, Qt, Mir, Lomiri, Ofono, and so on.
All of which are or have been developed mainly by hundreds of individuals in their paid working time for hundreds of different companies.
This does not prevent many people from contributing in their free, unpaid time, and the open source code system, which is visible to everyone, makes it possible to achieve high levels of quality.
Coming back to Ubuntu Touch, if, as I assume, less than 1% of the source code that makes it up has been developed by individuals in the UBports community in their spare time, it would be advisable to make it clearer in the communication about Ubuntu Touch where the more than 99% that makes it up comes from and makes it a complex operating system of great quality and value (several billion or tens of billions of $/€ for all the components).

For example, Top 50 contributors (out of more than 500) for linux kernel
(https://insights.linuxfoundation.org/project/korg/contributors) :

Organization
Total contributions
1
Intel Corporation
24,901
2
Red Hat, Inc.
17,172
3
Google LLC
13,908
4
Meta Platforms, Inc.
13,169
5
SUSE
11,222
6
Arm Limited
11,067
7
Linaro
10,202
8
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
8,634
9
Linux Foundation
8,594
10
Oracle America Inc
4,189
11
Microsoft Corporation
3,739
12
Huawei
2,481
13
Collabora
2,466
14
Datera
2,405
15
NVIDIA Corporation
2,292
16
IBM
2,174
17
Linutronix GmbH
1,993
18
Cisco Systems, Inc.
1,764
19
Glider
1,751
20
Bootlin
1,671
21
Uxlite Solutions
1,639
22
Qualcomm Inc
1,576
23
Texas Instruments Incorporated
1,300
24
CHERRY Digital Health
1,217
25
LWN
1,142
26
Ideas on Board
1,106
27
Renesas Electronics Corporation
1,043
28
Individual - No Account
980
29
NXP Semiconductors N.V.
895
30
Kernel Community
889
31
Pengutronix
848
32
Microchip Technology Incorporated
816
33
Chromium
804
34
Linutronix
766
35
BayLibre
737
36
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
700
37
Western Digital Corporation
639
38
NVIDIA AI IOT
622
39
Tencent Cloud
581
40
NEC Corporation
574
41
Fedora Project
561
42
Linux Kernel
545
43
Samsung Electronics Co., LTD
480
44
Rivian Automotive LLC
446
45
Mainline Linux Kernel Development
444
46
Loongson Technology Corporation Limited
444
47
Canonical Ltd
441
48
Marvell Technology, Inc.
431
49
Hovold Consulting.com
423
50
Broadcom Inc.
401

Interesting answers here are from Plamen, from Braxtech:

Q: Will there be an easily buildable close-to-mainline Linux kernel?
Will changes be upstreamed to the mainline linux kernel?

A: Yes, to both. We’re getting that promise from MediaTek and the integrator they hired for the linux part.

Q: Will fingerprint support work on linux? How will the camera look? Should we expect the camera to be green and blurry at the start?

A: The mandate is to get everything working, as it will on Android. We will communicate a linux roadmap in due course. One of the main reasons for selecting the g720 by MediaTek (and not a way cheaper alternative such as Rockchip 3588) was the strategic importance for MediaTek to run linux on it - this is their latest high end IoT chip. Most of their customers for the chip will run Linux.
Obviously, the camera won’t beat iPad, but it will not be crap.

@kugiigi said in New Braxtech Tablet (or Laptop) with UT on mainline linux kernel:

To be honest, I think we shouldn't be hoping for this to be coming anytime soon. There are only renders and the SOC is very new. I highly doubt it'll actually be shipping this year. And let's not even talk about a UT port yet

I didn't mention the projected availability date, but it does exist: "Estimated delivery date is August '26." (for Android version probably)

For the brax3, 8 months passed between the start of the funding campaign and the first deliveries under iodéOS. The first version of UT was released 4 months later, and the first “stable” version, which can be installed via ubports-installer, is not yet available yet after 14 months months since the start.

So I'm going to go out on a limb and hazard a guess: the first "stable" version of the open slate tablet running UT could be available between August 2026 and December 2027.

@developer After 35 years of existence, GNU/Linux desktop/laptop are mostly unknown from more than 90% of consumers in the world because of the way the capitalist system organises (manipulates, distorts) competition.
The same causes producing the same effects, we can expect mobile operating systems other than the duopoly to take several decades to exceed 1% market share.
Be that as it may, the important thing is that UT continues to be viable in the long run, for its ~10k current users and is able to attract others who share the vision and objectives of freedom, sharing and solidarity of the UBports community and more widely of those who appreciate free software philosophy.

In 2026, with Qt6, Mir2, xdg-desktop-portal and Lomiri or others improvements, UT will be up to date and in the best possible condition to attract developers and users/contributors.

Named "Open Slate":

1. https://community.braxtech.net/t/open-slate-megathread/4041

2. https://rumble.com/v74par6-new-project-the-brax-open-slate-androidlinux-tablet.html

3. MKT Genio 720 specifications: https://www.mediatek.com/products/iot/genio-iot/genio-720

Note: about "mainline linux kernel" (or near mainline kernel and anyway recent kernel) for Ubuntu Touch, it's a guess on my part.

@domubpkm said in more browsers for 20.04 when?:

@hacknorris try https://open-store.io/app/merezhyvo.naz.r . @naz.r puts a lots of efforts proposing a full working browser.

Yes but for UT 24.04: "NOTE: Merezhyvo is built for Ubuntu Touch 24.04 . Ubuntu Touch 20.04 is not supported and has not been tested."

For 20.04 though, testing and return could be useful.

@Ida_ At least one FP4 with VoLTE working but in Germany not in Sweden: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/10889/working-volte-reports-share-your-experience?page=3

@kugiigi Not a surprise because Oren Klopfer is the guy who has made a lot of work to push UT on pine64 devices and is also behind Rhino linux distro.

@Ida_ said in Win a Volla Quintus with Tuta Mail:

Wow, on X. Did they also post this on a more free platform?

Also on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/115745708281080473

And also an opportunity to let people know how much you like Ubuntu Touch:
https://x.com/TutaPrivacy/status/2001958889055834457

https://linuxiac.com/rhino-linux-2025-4-brings-lomiri-packages-and-updated-kernels/

@TotalSonic it seems there is at least a bug to fix before implementation of a setting: https://salsa.debian.org/ubports-team/lomiri/-/issues/54

With help of bounties it could occur sooner than later: https://os-sci.com/lomiri#Contribute

@ancientsounds said in Do you think you know Ubuntu Touch ?:

@libremax
With more and more people getting unhappy with Google and Apple, there must be a great opportunity for some manufacurer and retailer to offer for sale a great off-the-shelf UT phone now?

For the moment we can already congratulate ourselves for

1. the consistency of Volla, which has been producing and marketing UT-embedded devices for 6 years and promoting them on its website,
2. the new partnership with Brax tech, whose launch of the Brax3 was a success, and the forthcoming availability of UT on this device.

@gpatel-fr said in Newbee trying hard, got a no space issue:

while your phone is a 'reference device', it don't have a lot of recent issues and that could mean that it's not widely used anymore.

With 3 circles in community strength, it means Pixel 3A is currently one of the most used devices (with Fairphone 4).

@CiberSheep February 9 2015 for the bq 4.5: https://web.archive.org/web/20150209170456/http://www.gadget-nations.net/2015/02/ubuntu-based-first-smartphone-e45-Announced.html
I got it for my birthday in March 2015.