Screenshots! The first thing most people want when evaluating an operating system for a personal device is a screenshot. A picture is worth a thousand words, and in the case of a screenshot, you can choose what’s in it to visually communicate key features. I’ve been digging around the site for several minutes and I have yet to find a single one.
Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out
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Re: Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out
#12Screenshots! The first thing most people want when evaluating an operating system for a personal device is a screenshot. A picture is worth a thousand words, and in the case of a screenshot, you can choose what’s in it to visually communicate key features. I’ve been digging around the site for several minutes and I have yet to find a single one.
Nah, just seeing Ubuntu does it makes me want to not touch it.
Re: Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't need an Android phone for messengers. Just get Beeper and a Linux Matrix Client and you can communicate with iMessage, Telegram and WhatsApp users without having an Android phone My bank account works in the Browser
Bank App, NFC bank card payments? Tap and pay or paywave are the best thing to happen in mobile IMO. I don't even carry a wallet anymore. I had having to carry a phone and wallet. Now it's back down to only have to carry one thing. Perfect
I don't trust phone security enough to do that.
Re: Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out
#14Happy to hear they are making progress!
Lomiri was my favourite UI on the PinePhone already last year, but unfortunately WiFi issues made it unusable as a daily driver.
Re: Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out
#15Screenshots! The first thing most people want when evaluating an operating system for a personal device is a screenshot. A picture is worth a thousand words, and in the case of a screenshot, you can choose what’s in it to visually communicate key features. I’ve been digging around the site for several minutes and I have yet to find a single one.
Nah, just seeing Ubuntu does it makes me want to not touch it.
While the project was started by Canonical, they've since cancelled it and UBports, a group of volunteers, have taken over.
Re: Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't need an Android phone for messengers. Just get Beeper and a Linux Matrix Client and you can communicate with iMessage, Telegram and WhatsApp users without having an Android phone My bank account works in the Browser
Bank App, NFC bank card payments? Tap and pay or paywave are the best thing to happen in mobile IMO. I don't even carry a wallet anymore. I had having to carry a phone and wallet. Now it's back down to only have to carry one thing. Perfect
> I don't even carry a wallet anymore.
That is a lot of faith in the technology. You don't worry about a dead battery? Cracked screen? Phone getting stolen out of your hand in the subway?
Re: Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out
#17Re: Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't need an Android phone for messengers. Just get Beeper and a Linux Matrix Client and you can communicate with iMessage, Telegram and WhatsApp users without having an Android phone My bank account works in the Browser
> My bank account works in the Browser Sounds like pure hell on mobile.
It isn't though. What fits into a app screen of a phone also fits into a browser screen on a phone
Re: Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out
#19I was one of the relatively early adopters in 2015 when the BQ Aquaris E4.5 came out.
I gave Ubuntu Touch a chance, particularly as I was longing for something comparable to Maemo on the Nokia N900. At first it was great. OpenSSH, bash, etc. I had some fun hacking on it. However, I quickly realized they threw a beta product at the people.
I missed phone calls because of race conditions. I couldn't connect to my wifi because my password was too long.... It overall really seemed the team at Canonical didn't have enough man power.
Eventually, these things got fixed, but too late for me. In some ways it's cool that the community hasn't given up on Ubuntu touch, unlike Canonical. I don't know how much has changed under the hood, but one can only hope the software stack is more reliable now.
Re: Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out
#20Here's a YouTube video showing off the UI 3 months ago https://youtu.be/qmlabKbpTGM&t=5m44s it shouldn't be much different than Focal, but if someone has a video of the Focal UI, please post it. They should make it a lot easier to see the UI
Edit: this one is good too https://youtu.be/ltxj8YBoTMU