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[Kevin Gunn <kevin.gunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
It's probably important for me to state first and foremost, our unity8/mir
releases contain the same code across all of our supported devices. This
code is in our the latest images (rc-proposed that is...iirc we _just_
missed the cutoff for stable/OTA7). The 2 primary features are this 1)
attaching a bluetooth mouse will put unity8 into windowed mode (regardless
of external monitor). 2) attaching an external monitor is supported by the
software (and will also put unity8 into windowed mode). All of this will
just be part of OTA8.

Besides the software, there is of course a hardware aspect to these
features. For a cabled external monitor, I can only speak to Nexus4 & Nexus
7(2013) which have support for slimport (not MHL, they are similar but
different specs). And it's been confirmed on this mailing list before, MX4
& BQE4.5 do not have slimport or MHL. As for your BQE5, I am not familiar
but would suspect the same wrt slimport and MHL.
And as for your bluetooth mouse connection issue with your BQE5, I can't
speak to that capability, maybe a bug? or maybe someone else knows...

As for releasing a 15.10 based image, there's no plan to do so. And we're
still releasing all of our features into stable-phone-overlay ppa on top of
15.04 - so in reality the 15.04+overlay is "more current" than 15.10 as
15.10 has been closed/frozen for some time now. And what little differs
between 15.10 and 15.04+overlay is largely irrelevant for phone.

br,kg

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Peter Bittner <peter.bittner@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have difficulties finding out the current status of convergence.
>
> There have been a few videos and photos around on YouTube, Google+,
> OMG!Ubuntu, Ubuntu Wiki, but I've found no official roadmap or release
> date for an Ubuntu Touch release with convergence features enabled in
> general (on any device). Even worse, on OMG!Ubuntu a commenter
> mentions having been told by a Canonical representative that
> convergence will never be available for bq Aquaris (4.5) devices:
> """
> "The guy in charge of phone development at Canonical UK told me
> recently that you won't be able to 'converge' your Aquaris. For one
> thing the E4.5 isn't able to support MHL. It just doesn't have the
> required hardware to run as a desktop."
> """
> See below for some sources.
>
> Also, I've just bought a MHL micro USB to HDMI adapter [1], which
> works great for attaching USB pen drives, but when I try to attach
> either a wireless keyboard and mouse [2], or an external monitor to my
> bq Aquaris E5 Ubuntu Edition (latest OTA, 15.04, r6, VEGETEA01A-...)
> nothing happens. Attaching a bluetooth mouse [3] to the phone isn't
> supported yet either; same for the bluetooth keyboard of my kids' Kano
> device. At least on the stock image updated over the air.
>
> So,what is actually true? Will Ubuntu Touch on our devices be capable
> to do convergence, say, with the next OTA update? When can we expect
> convergence to work for all devices by default? Is there a status page
> or roadmap somewhere?
>
> (BTW, just noted that my phone runs 15.04; will the next OTA bring 15.10?)
>
> Peter
>
> --
> Videos, images, posts on convergence:
> - https://plus.google.com/+DanielWood/posts/BUTLNA7EpEA
> - https://plus.google.com/+DanielWood/posts/9pxKKAsiz5w
> -
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/02/new-video-shows-off-ubuntu-convergence-demoed-on-tablet-phone
> -
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/06/first-ubuntu-phone-with-convergence-is-being-made-by-bq
> -
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TunisianTeam/Presentations?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Ubuntu-touch-the-super-smartphone-convergence.pdf
>
> [1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=xcsource+5in1+AC148&t=canonical&ia=products
> [2] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rapoo+e9100p&t=canonical&iac=1
> [3]
> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=logitech+ultrathin+toch+mouse&t=canonical&ia=products
>
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