So flashed Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview today?

[Bateluer]

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install

The Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview is intended to be used for development and evaluation purposes only. It does not provide all of the features and services of a retail phone and cannot replace your current handset. This preview is the first release of a very new and unfinished version of Ubuntu and it will evolve quickly. If you want to install this release, please follow the guide provided, which details the available features and how to navigate the user experience.

Verizon GNex is excluded. Guess that answers my question of whether or not I should sell it.

 

[swanysto]

I would imagine they are not going to list phones that are basically locked down by cell companies. I don't think they can legally have you root your phone to add their OS. Might be off on this, but I don't think you will see Ubuntu unless Devs get a hold of it and make it into a ROM you can flash in a recovery program.

Edit: Didn't think about it, but maybe cause it is for GSM only right now?

 

[Bateluer]

I would imagine they are not going to list phones that are basically locked down by cell companies. I don't think they can legally have you root your phone to add their OS. Might be off on this, but I don't think you will see Ubuntu unless Devs get a hold of it and make it into a ROM you can flash in a recovery program.

Edit: Didn't think about it, but maybe cause it is for GSM only right now?

I think the long term planning is to have Ubuntu Touch be factory installed, and sold on phones standard as a competitor to Android and iOS. Right now, its hobbyists and developers though, and limited only to Nexii devices.

Obviously, people should be allowed to root and install the OS of their choice on their phone, as they currently do on a PC.

 

[VashHT]

Hmm I may try this on my N7 when I get home, probably won't on my N4 since it's my only phone.

 

[sjwaste]

I'd give this a shot, but does it overwrite your recovery? I'd like to keep CWM and be able to nandroid back if I need to. I'd assume since it's a totally different OS, it may redo your partition mapping though.

 

[sjwaste]

Nevermind, someone posted flashable zips already. Actually, many folks did, all I did was google it (ha!)

 

[s44]

LOL, no cell data support yet?

And *of course* there are already unofficial builds for the LTE GNex.

 

[Bateluer]

LOL, no cell data support yet?

And *of course* there are already unofficial builds for the LTE GNex.

Haven't looked for those yet. Is the LTE actually working, or wifi only? Or no wireless at all?

 

[s44]

LTE is working exactly as well as GSM/HSPA on the "official" ROMs -- which is to say, not at all because the original build doesn't support any cell data.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

ive always found ubuntu stuff to be half baked and buggy, i dont have much confidence in their ability to put something quality together.

 

[pm]

ive always found ubuntu stuff to be half baked and buggy, i dont have much confidence in their ability to put something quality together.

I've had the opposite experience. I'm not sure what my confidence in their ability to do a phone OS is, but on the desktop/server front, I've always been impressed. I run Ubuntu desktop on my desktop at home, and I run Ubuntu server on our home server. I'm not always thrilled with some of the design choices that the Ubuntu team makes, but I can fix those issues and then beyond that, everything has just worked. In my experience every issue that I've ever run into has been a problem that I caused by myself by messing with the default build.

 

[bearxor]

My enthusiasm waned a bit about the developer preview after hearing just how non-functional it is.

 

[sarav]

My enthusiasm waned a bit about the developer preview after hearing just how non-functional it is.

Yeah it's pretty barebones right now. Tried it out on my N10 for the past few hours, I like the interface but almost nothing works - videos player, music player, gallery can't view pictures in my device etc. You can't set a login, you have to use a guest account. The accounts that are shown in the announcement videos are actually on your tablet, so werid.

As far as the UI is concerned, it's nice but not as great as I thought it would be. You can only have one tablet app and one phone app at the same time, I thought you'd be able to keep any two apps open which was my bad. Also the behaviour to bring in a second app with a swipe on the right end of the device does not have any consistency. Sometimes the current app is replaced with another tablet app and sometimes a phone app is brought in split view. I thought the UI would be better than Android, but nope. Android (even with all its inconsistencies) seems a lot simpler to use.

 

[LinuxFreak]

ive always found ubuntu stuff to be half baked and buggy, i dont have much confidence in their ability to put something quality together.

u r absolutely right.ubuntu became buggy specially after they introduced "Unity"
i thought they wud create a better alternative to gnome 3.but when i used it on high end laptop i couldn't believe it that it came from ubuntu.i thought ubuntu was developin its own DE but i was dissapointed that unity was a just a fork of gnome 3

Ubuntu more specifically mark shuttleworth is a absolute LOSER.Michael Larabel of Phoronix stated that "The low-level layer powering Ubuntu Touch is the open-source Android / CyanogenMod code and with that comes SurfaceFlinger as the compositor".In other words ubuntu fone os and tablet os is just a fork of Android.

SO i dont think they can have any support from important world class OEMs( Google, HTC, Sony, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, T-Mobile, Sprint Nextel, Nvidia) .becuz they are members of OHA.OHA members are not allowed to sell products which are fork of android.click on this link http://thenextweb.com/asia/2012/09/15/google-android-bomb-china/

so canonical failed before even releasing their products

lets see how it competes against Android 5.0