IMHO the currently missing piece for UT as a daily driver Full Nextcloud integration is really the way to go.

So qtcontacts-sqlite seems to have landed in a branch:

https://github.com/ubports/address-book-app/commit/db8681e0e694a03d6c95632dabb4910719925c95

@mardy great to see some further progress on this. You think CardDAV might make it for OTA12?

The general consensus in Linux phone circles seems to be that the FP6 is a downgrade over the FP5.

Besides the already mentioned lack of USB3 and display out, they also completely mis-designed the battery, meaning that there will likely never be any 3rd party replacement batteries for it. Combine that with what appears to be financial problems of the Fairphone company, and their 10 year support promise seems increasingly dubious.

Small rant: The FP6 should have been a user replaceable mainboard etc. upgrade for the FP5 casing. Them constantly redesigning their entire phones is a waste of money and directly contradicts their mission statement to reduce e-waste.

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-arm-alpha2-with-lomiri-pinephone/39561

Super interesting development as a lot of the things UT will need in the future (when finally based on 20.04+) can already be implemented and tested on Manjaro.

Just found this:
https://www.peterspython.com/en/blog/developing-ubuntu-touch-apps-with-python-using-pyotherside

Seems like a nice start

Pyotherside will also work with qt quick controls 2?

@AppLee said in What do you think? Use only Lomiri as poweruser?:

When I read your post I think that you want us (as a community) to bail because it's a long way until UT is polished and with many useful and fun apps. But I don't think that we should stop because that is something I want and many others too.

No, I don't want the community to bail. I like UT overall, although I like Lomiri more than some other parts.

But what I see is that this community is struggleing to maintain a lot of the stuff Canocial developed back then and which made sense for their buisiness case (taking a cut from the app-store sales like Google does). And a lot of this baggage from Canocial times does not only cause a maintainance burden (by now it is technical debt despite some nice things about it) but actively turns away new contributors. Yes some of those might be tinkerers and are not primarily thinking about the use of UT as a daily driver phone, but as with all healthy open-source communities there is always a mix of different motivations and the sum is larger than its individual parts...

Unless you want to do the port yourself it is probably better to wait for the PineTab or get a already compatible one like the old Nexus7.

For porting youself, look for LinageOS support and Android7 or maybe soon 9.

@trwidick really? mms sending is a thing now? In my entire life I have maybe send an mms once by accident and I don't think I know anyone who uses those either.

And if you think your life will depend on it, then better not use a smartphone at all. They break easily and run out of battery quickly.

Awesome. This is probably one of the future must have apps on UT. Thanks a lot

I have about one year experience running the OnePlus3 (without t) as a daily driver.

It works with the same caveats @NoelFlantier described, but the port is abandoned and quite honestly I would not recommend getting one to use with Ubuntu Touch. But if you happen to have one already, sure give flashing it a try and maybe you will like it.

NodeBB supports federation now. Might be nice to enable it here?

https://www.kdab.com/embedding-servo-in-qt/

https://github.com/KDABLabs/cxx-qt-servo-webview

Would be kinda cool to have on UT.

Recent versions of Servo render the Mastodon webapp fine for example, so it is already quite advanced.

@Keneda https://forum.fairphone.com/t/is-fairphone-b-v-struggling/117307/41

They made a big loss in 2023, a small profit in 2024 and are projecting a loss again for 2025. The thread also has some other details and a lot of speculation.

I am not saying that they will go bust tomorrow, but I think they need to reevaluate their strategy.

Personally I think they could learn a bit from how Framework does it and lean into repairability and upgradability.

The general consensus in Linux phone circles seems to be that the FP6 is a downgrade over the FP5.

Besides the already mentioned lack of USB3 and display out, they also completely mis-designed the battery, meaning that there will likely never be any 3rd party replacement batteries for it. Combine that with what appears to be financial problems of the Fairphone company, and their 10 year support promise seems increasingly dubious.

Small rant: The FP6 should have been a user replaceable mainboard etc. upgrade for the FP5 casing. Them constantly redesigning their entire phones is a waste of money and directly contradicts their mission statement to reduce e-waste.

Is anyone working on converging a bit more with other mobile Linux platforms? For example by adding Flatpak support for apps?

Is it possible to modify eSIMs via apps in Waydroid?

After Ubuntu 20.04 a lot of work has been put into Flutter apps on (desktop) Ubuntu. Does any of this translate into easier to port Flutter mobile apps on UT 24.04?

I used to have an account on Open-store.io that I didn't use in some years. Coming back now it seems direct accounts got removed and you can only log in with Github/Gitlab/Ubuntu One?

I remember having a direct account and not some link and those links seems to be also unaware of me ever having linked Open-store to them, so I assume there was some change?

Is there some way to recover my original account? Thanks.

A while ago there was some talk about adding a Webkit based browser instead of depending on the perpetually outdated qtwebengine like right now. Has there been any development on that?

The Signal gateway for XMPP is also working again, in case someone prefers that.