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Re: The new Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition is now available to preorder

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Post by wlesieutre » Tue, Jun 09, 2015, 3:27 PM UTC

eropple wrote: post #30

Roritharr wrote: post #24

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To be honest, as a Surface Pro 2 User, even with 8GB Ram in Phones becoming theoretically possible, i don't think i'd actually want to compromise any further down for my development environment ressourcewise.

I'm in the same boat. I picked up a bottom-model Surface Pro 3 during a startup liquidation and I'm pretty happy with it for VS2015, but I definitely agree that there's not much more "down" to go.

Agreed. I'm also on a SP3 (but the i5 version), and I wouldn't want to try doing serious work in a desktop environment on a cell phone processor.

Maybe things will change in a few years as ARM/Snapdragon/etc processors continue to improve and phones get more memory, but for the time being I think MS's approach to phones + large monitors is preferable.

Re: The new Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition is now available to preorder

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Post by abrowne » Tue, Jun 09, 2015, 11:08 PM UTC

callahad wrote: post #13

abrowne wrote: post #10

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Are there instructions for that device anywhere?

It's in the mainline B2G repo, so you should be able to follow the instructions at https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/b2g to get a build. Use `./configure.sh aries` to configure for the Z3C. Other supported devices include the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5. https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/B2G/blob/47113646d3d1692a267c...

Nice, thanks. I knew the Nexus devices were supported, but I prefer smaller phones.

Re: The new Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition is now available to preorder

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Post by hobarrera » Wed, Jun 10, 2015, 5:22 PM UTC

m90 wrote: post #17

hobarrera wrote: post #15

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> You want to import SIM contacts? In all honesty, I don't think this is very common nowadays. If you're migrating from something like a Nokia 1100, your contacts might be in your SIM, but most users are migrating from another smartphone in 2015, and smartphones don't store contacts in the SIM.

Android did it without complaining, iOS apparently does it. My SIM is still the same that I got in 2001. It's a pretty convenient location to store that stuff.

You do understand that very few people still have a 14 year old SIM. Does that even support 3G?

To be completely honest, I was unaware the modern smartphones could save contacts to SIM rather than internal contacts db(I quickly looked at my phone and failed to find an option to save-to-SIM).

This is a very very edge case that most people will never use, so lack of support for it is quite acceptable. Mainstream features are what Ubuntu is probably targeting right now.