ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Kevin Gunn <kevin.gunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Best advice is to read all the emails with the subject line "Landing team
<date>" & "Ubuntu Touch OTA-<ver>" that are sent on this mail thread. Quite
dependable and useful.
br,kg

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Ionut Negru <blackjohnny@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 'Watching out' it's on though, give us some hints please. Where and when
> to watch out 'more'?
>
> On Friday, 6 November 2015 04:34:04 EET, nick luigi eusebio wrote:
>
>> All Convergence stuffs will eventually land on all Ubuntu Phones and yes
>> including your ( and my ;-) ) bq Aquaris E5 however, it won't be very much
>> useful on all official Ubuntu Phones released so far. First, as you
>> mentioned, both bq phones doesn't support external display and even MX4
>> seems to not support it. It's a hardware thing so Canonical can't really do
>> something about it. Second, you won't really want to use both E4.5 and E5
>> as a desktop. They're are simply underpowered. Bluetooth keyboard and mouse
>> support will surely be implemented in the future via OTA. It's been working
>> on my Nexus 7 for months actually but I don't know why the phones doesn't.
>> The current status of Convergence is pretty much in-progress but we're
>> getting there :-)Man, sorry to tell you this sad news. But don't worry, as
>> far as I know the next Ubuntu Phone to be released will be a
>> convergent-capable one so watch out for it ;)
>>
>>       From: Peter Bittner <peter.bittner@xxxxxxx>
>>  To: ubuntu-phone <ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  Sent: Thursday,
>> November 5, 2015 11:58 PM
>>  Subject: [Ubuntu-phone] Convergence (current status for bq devices)
>>
>>    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
>>
>>
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