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What is the status of connecting the ubuntu phone to a screen to get a personal computer running ubuntu desktop ?
WIP, here's a demo of the current state https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3PUYoa1c9M
http://store.bq.com/en/ubuntu-edition-e-4-5 No https:// by default. Again, if you market this as towards the nerdy audience: Put _everything_ behind HTTPS. I simply do not want to let others know, what phone I might buy. Thank you.
Too bad, LTE 4G not supported :(
On HSPA+ (H+) my connection is fast enough for any purpose besides downloading movies, and it's not like I've got unlimited data. Even 3g's theoretical speed is great if they could get that to work for a change.
I have 4g on a company laptop and the speed is better than many places' WiFi, but I have yet to find an excuse to use it (someone has to pay that data bill). It's not like I don't know how fast it really is, I just don't see the point of it right now. In 5 years 3g really will be too slow for many applications, but as it stands...
There isn't any reason one of these wouldn't work on a GSM network in the US, right?
GSM yes, 3G no.
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n Bluetooth® 4.0, Bluetooth® 4.0 hardware compatibility (software not currently integrated). 2G GSM (850/900/1800/1900) 3G HSPA+ (900/2100) GPS and A-GPS
Anyone know if you can do stuff like use emacs, cc, make, install a JVM etc?
Yes and no. The phone image is read-only by default, with RW areas for user data / tmp / logs etc. You can easily make the RO portion RW, and then apt-get or dpkg install random packages. However the caveat is we never test that scenario, so if you break it, you get to keep the pieces. You can then re-flash it to get out of this of course.
Shame that this phone has such a low res screen or I'd be tempted.
BQ main office is just 50 meters away from my office. They are like 70-80 people, all very young ( Pretty useless comment, I know.
They also make an e-reader [1] with open source software. I'm somewhat obsessed with the idea of using it for ssh/mosh as a portable terminal. It would be very cool to hear if someone has tried this, before ordering one. I mailed some random guy at BQ and he said he never tried it, but also found it interesting. If you find it interesting too, maybe you could run down and ask around! :) [1]: http://www.bq.com/gb/prod…
I found this[0] but it is in Spanish, and many of the links to source don't go anywhere. It seems like they us Debian and Qt, which would be very neat.
[0]: http://www.mibqyyo.com/actualidad/2013/07/10/programa-de-des...
MediaTek? No, thanks.
http://store.bq.com/en/ubuntu-edition-e-4-5 No https:// by default. Again, if you market this as towards the nerdy audience: Put _everything_ behind HTTPS. I simply do not want to let others know, what phone I might buy. Thank you.