ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Bill Filler <bill.filler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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    Summary:

14.04 was released last week and we are happy to report that we landed
many of the big features that we had targeted for this release*!* Kudos
to the entire team for working tirelessly to get this done. The
following landed since the last status update was sent out:


Telephony:

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    Conference Calling: fully supported in the dialer app. Multiple
    calls can now be merged into a single conference, with the ability
    to add/drop calls in real time.

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    USSD Support: ability to interact with carrier specific shortcuts
    and menus (i.e. *646# for minutes used on AT+T)

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    Class 0 SMS support

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    many high priority bugs fixed in dialer and messaging apps


Sync:

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    Contact syncing with Google accounts

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    Calendar syncing with Google accounts


Browser:

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    WebBrowser with oxide backend

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    File Upload support in browser via Content-Hub


Gallery App:

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    multiple high priority bug fixes that improve desktop usage (and
    device as well)


    Work in progress:

The team is focused on these areas over the next weeks:


Touch Apps on Desktop:

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    fix outstanding high priority desktop related issues for the touch
    apps (gallery, camera, mediaplayer and browser)


Sync:

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    improve performance of calendar sync

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    fix high priority bugs in sync-monitor, address-book and calendar apps


Browser

  *

    complete missing feature parity items that remain from QtWebKit
    based browser (geolocation, thumbnails, etc)

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    fix high priority issues that affect webapps on the desktop
    (keyboard shortcuts, copy/paste, etc)

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    Download support via integration with Download Manager and Content-Hub


OSK:

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    improve predictive text such that it becomes good enough to turn on
    by default

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    fix performance of spell checking

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    enable haptic feedback

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    fix other high priority bugs


Telephony:

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    implement emergency calling

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    MMS support in messaging-app

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    Work on app redesign

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    Work on dual-sim


Address Book

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    phone number auto-formatting

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    implement search

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    integrate fast scroll list from SDK (when available)

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    high priority bug fixes

  * Work on app redesign

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