Forum: General
2013-11-02, 01:25
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Replies: 13
Views: 7,014
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Forum: General
2013-11-01, 03:23
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Replies: 13
Views: 7,014
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Forum: Off Topic
2013-08-25, 22:43
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Replies: 29
Views: 5,368
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Forum: Community
2013-08-24, 05:20
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Replies: 591
Views: 204,457
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Forum: Competitors
2013-08-14, 21:25
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Replies: 351
Views: 92,177
Re: Limited desktop
actually, I dont mind the banding/pen-tile grid on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus that much.. only happens with a handful of colours and only on very low brightness
From a mobile-display perspective I...
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Forum: Competitors
2013-08-14, 16:34
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Replies: 351
Views: 92,177
Re: Limited desktop
yeah, asking for 24" is what's leaving you with premium/niche prices.
price on 27" 2560x1440 has really come down, with good sub 400usd options commonplace...
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Forum: Competitors
2013-08-14, 13:25
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Replies: 351
Views: 92,177
Limited desktop
What we need is an Intel/Linux Haswell based mobile. I've been unable to find any MHL transmitter packages with the bandwidth to do more than 1080p@60Hz, and that just kind of seems limited/lowest...
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Forum: Competitors
2013-08-14, 12:41
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Replies: 351
Views: 92,177
Re: Ubuntu Edge
France.. what's your damage? Even Canada has pledged more than you
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Forum: Competitors
2013-08-08, 13:48
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Replies: 351
Views: 92,177
Re: Ubuntu Edge
I would actually use a dual system. If click-packaging for mobile/sandboxing was transparent/low effort, and there was no compelling reason not to I would definitely package many/most software for...
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Forum: Competitors
2013-08-08, 02:12
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Replies: 351
Views: 92,177
Re: Ubuntu Edge
I have Ubuntu Touch installed on a Galaxy Nexus.
The last time I flashed the device with an image was Thursday.
So far there are no special 'Ubuntu' restrictions of any kind yet - it's just...
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Forum: Competitors
2013-08-01, 03:44
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Replies: 351
Views: 92,177
Re: Ubuntu Edge
4.5in "optimized" for one hand input/not willing to adapt UX to high density screen is a bad reason to sink your whole project.
i'd think a little harder about how one might "optimize" a flexible...
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Forum: Competitors
2013-08-01, 03:38
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Replies: 351
Views: 92,177
Re: Ubuntu Edge
what Mark I guess didnt get is a smartphone didnt get in every pocket because people were *looking* for mobile desktops.
People just wanted the most powerful/capable devices out there. (only...
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Forum: Competitors
2013-07-30, 23:33
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Replies: 351
Views: 92,177
Re: Ubuntu Edge
Yeah, no 1700 listed as GSM
But.. Tmobile runs 3G on 1900MHz in some regions and if the device supports LTE/AWS band IV then it will have 4G support on 1700MHz and 3G everywhere tmo runs 3G on...
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Forum: Competitors
2013-07-27, 14:45
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Replies: 351
Views: 92,177
Re: Ubuntu Edge
mikecomputing, that does not make sense. The entire point of using a toolkit such as GTK is so the application does not need to concern itself with the specifics of the display server.
i mean, Qt...
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Forum: Competitors
2013-07-27, 01:52
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Replies: 351
Views: 92,177
Re: Ubuntu Edge
diogotrc, if Canonical can focus efforts and get me new choice in mobiles that works better then lipstick (https://github.com/nemomobile/lipstick) on Nemo then I'll be pleased.
maybe having new...
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Forum: Competitors
2013-07-27, 01:48
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Replies: 351
Views: 92,177
Re: Ubuntu Edge
mrsellout, a good observation about the Canonical contributor "agreement"/Mir
In some ways feeling like Canonical uses their userbase/weight to "force" people to agree to favorable copyright...
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Forum: Competitors
2013-07-25, 21:57
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Replies: 351
Views: 92,177
Re: Ubuntu Edge
mikecomputing: think really hard about Linux Mint, and then say again there is no chance Ubuntu Phone will be fully open source.
firstly, Ubuntu Phone is already released, and it *is* fully open...
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Forum: Competitors
2013-07-24, 19:04
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Replies: 351
Views: 92,177
Re: Ubuntu Edge
If they do raise the 32M$ on sub-830usd pledges, I think Mark S. can afford to pay in a little of his own pocket change in exchange for his "cutting edge testbed" and the exposure/etc. he's already...
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Forum: Competitors
2013-07-24, 18:10
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Replies: 351
Views: 92,177
Re: Ubuntu Edge
boo-hoo, was that extra 64GB cutting into their profit margin?
i'd probably be plenty happy with even 32GB+sd like n900 .. better than 8GB/16GB people get nowadays but not quite worth the 600usd+...
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Forum: Competitors
2013-07-24, 13:34
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Replies: 351
Views: 92,177
Re: Ubuntu Edge
Dave999 are you just assuming?
I have the Ubuntu Touch mobile OS running right now on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Just like Desktop ubuntu source is fully available...
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Forum: Competitors
2013-07-23, 23:46
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Replies: 351
Views: 92,177
Re: Ubuntu Edge
yeah, I dont seriously believe a 2.4GHz quadcore ARM will be able to totally replace for 4+ years the 2.8GHz dualcore Wolfdale I've used as a desktop for the last four.
amd64 simply has had some...
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Forum: Competitors
2013-07-23, 21:41
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Replies: 351
Views: 92,177
Re: Who has supported Ubuntu edge?
but its not bionic-only hardware, that is the whole point of libhybris: to run a glibc kernel and userspace.
if specs were available for the mobile EGL implementations people would already be...
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Forum: Competitors
2013-07-23, 19:54
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Replies: 351
Views: 92,177
Re: Who has supported Ubuntu edge?
how is sailfish any more "pure" linux because instead of dumping x11, choosing QtQuick2.0 and bootstrapping (fully open source) mir they decided to dump x11, choose Wayland with qt5 and...
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Forum: Competitors
2013-07-23, 01:59
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Replies: 351
Views: 92,177
Re: Who has supported Ubuntu edge?
128GB storage and 4GB ram are the strongest differentiating features.
Will +30% mAh capacity from silicon-alloy Li-ion anodes offset the additional RAM? Sure, definitely. If they ever materialize...
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Forum: Competitors
2013-07-23, 01:16
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Replies: 351
Views: 92,177
Re: Who has supported Ubuntu edge?
Yeah. I just placed a $600 contribution.
I had already placed a $0 Jolla preorder (not in europe) and 2013-May is a long way off, but hard to argue with a 28-day return.
concerned about the...
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