Yes, the change to UBports on my BQ phone doesn't run into any problem. Everything works fine and I didn't experience any problem.

@UKPhil said in Original devices:

You never know we may be lucky enough one day for both phones to be moved to the core list and then the fun can begin.

I also have a E4.5, but for sure, this will never happen, because those devices don't have enough power to handle what is needed.
The devices don't have HDMI out.
The RAM is way to small for having a smooth running system with full convergence.
The processor is so slow, that it can not be used with a decent workflow.
It's just impossible to use those devices, for that what UBports can do all.

Something like, you will use a "Pentium 1" PC with 512 MB RAM and install Ubuntu 17.04. Well, there will be no fun ;)

Wow, that's great news!

When I try to change my profile picture in ths forum, it's not possible.
I can upload it, and after uploading I can see the new picture two times on the website.
But as soon I click on "Save changes" the previous picture is back.
This is the uploaded picture: https://forums.ubports.com/assets/uploads/profile/434-profileavatar.png?1505028551572
But this is the one shown in the profile: https://forums.ubports.com/assets/uploads/profile/434-profileavatar.png
So it will not be converted to permanent, or ?1505028551572 is missing behind the filename.

Wow, great news to read!
I really hope there will be some new UBports devices with powerful hardware.
I have a BQ E4.5 and M10 FHD, but the hardware is not really powerful.
Just recently I bought a Samsung Galaxy S8 and the hardware is so great and impressive, but the Android OS is so bad, when it comes to spy out everything. Sometimes I am afraid using it, because I don't like Google, the NSA and others, that I can't control, to be part of my life.
A high-power hardware like this would be great with UBports, but I know, it's "Samsung closed source hardware" and this will never come true. It's a conspiracy between Google and Samsung. Money talks....

@Locamama
Just to give you some more information why this is a very hard work to do.
Most Smartphones not using AMD or Intel processor, they are using ARM processors.
ARM processors don't have a PCI bus, so there is no hardware detection possible like on Intel or AMD. No Plug-And-Play
That's the reason, why they need to build a whole system for each device where it is running on.
If the hadware developer don't give out exact hardware data, it's so hard to port it, because the developer need to find out all hardware specification by their self on testing.

@UKPhil
Yes you are right. I feel the same. I also bought the BQ E4.5, which for real, is a very low power Smartphone. And I also bought the BQ M10 FHD.
I understand, why they not developing new features on the E4.5, because the power is missing and the specs are very low. For example, no Miracast, no HDMI-out, low RAM...
But I don't understand, why they only only developing for the Nexus 5, while Canonical was using the M10 for developing.
Ubuntu Touch Xenial 16.04 was already a working system on the M10 FHD, when Canonical developing this. Now UBports switched back to 15.04, while Canonical was already developing 16.04 since quite some time.

@mariogrip
Why implementing new features in OTA3?
Maybe it's better investing your development energy to Xenial, as it was already working on my M10 FHD in March 2017, developed by Canonical. See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2irCIUkVK4U&t=970s

@mihael
To be exact, it was said here on that position: https://youtu.be/MGvo5sGEHmU?t=2301