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[Eric Holmi <empholmi@xxxxxxxxx>]

You may very well be correct, I wont argue that. I just think there could
be a fancy software workaround for the next year or two until wireless
becomes enough of a thing to allow that to happen. Besides, there is
already enough issues for the Ubuntu team to work on (bluetooth, GPS, etc),
that connecting external displays for non-target hardware (nexus 4,7,10)
will be a low priority. I'd like to see a community workaround for a short
term fix. I'm no programmer (although I'm rather good with bash scripting),
but I think it is doable.

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 8:31 PM, Nick Luigi V. Eusebio <kugi_igi@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Well I believe it is really on the hardware. MX4 and bq phones android
> versions doesn't support external display as well though
> I'm not sure if wireless display is supported.
> Anyway, I think the development of wireless display has already started so
> we can wait for that.
> And to be honest, current phones except maybe MX4 won't really be good to
> use for convergence :)
>
>
> On Wednesday, January 13, 2016 9:19:07 AM PHT, Eric Holmi wrote:
>
>> Is there some fancy software workaround that we just haven't thought of
>> yet? I have a hunch that because you can do micro-USB to HDMI on ANY
>> android drvice, that it is just a software thing (even though it may
>> exclude the GPU entirely and rely on the CPU)
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Peter Bittner <peter.bittner@xxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Wayne,
>>>
>>> I have bought the magnificent XCSOURCE 5in1 MHL adapter [1], only to
>>> find out later that it probably works with all devices minus my bq
>>> Aquaris 5 HD.  :-)
>>> I also bought this sweet converter cable [2] so that I could
>>> potentially use the USB 3.0 output of my XPS 13 for a second external
>>> monitor in combination with the above adapter. Negative either.
>>>
>>> Just to give you an idea that there are sweet adapters around. But
>>> that won't turn our bq phones into convergence devices, as others in
>>> this thread have pointed out. That's bad luck. But if the next bq
>>> devices also cost so little, and they arrive before 2019, we may not
>>> have to worry too much about it...   ;-)
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>> [1]
>>>
>>> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=XCSOURCE+5in1+MHL+Micro+USB+HDMI+Adapter+Cable+Sync&t=canonical&ia=products
>>> [2]
>>>
>>> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Schwarz+USB+Stecker+zu+Micro-USB-Buchse+Konverter+Adapte+Kabel+10cm&t=canonical&ia=products
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2016-01-13 1:21 GMT+01:00 Wayne Ward:
>>> > Can anyone tell me which cable / adapter id need to buy to get my Bq
>>> 4.5
>>> > connect to hdmi monitor please Link would nice..
>>> > Wayne
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>>
>
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