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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiEkCaA_P7c&feature=youtu.be

Lovely demo of where mobile is going. Most interesting in terms of convergence, IMO, is the "desktop mode" switch button you see at...

Yes, my point that was that a "regular phone" is basically a feature phone; for all the reasons I mentioned, plus the fact that most people on this planet still use feature phones and not smartphones...

Sorry but that sounds contradictory to me. A regular phone is just a phone: it makes phone calls, sends text messages, lets you surf the web with a mobile browser, and maybe take some pictures or...

Yes, this part of the early history I was early aware of. As I understand it, the parts taken from Cyanogenmod have been mostly abandoned since then and in any case never involved a wholesale...

Could you elaborate further on this? If it is what I think it is, then agreed, that is a huge misstep. I would protest against this in terms even stronger than the one you used.

Isn't there anyone working porting Thunderbird? That would seem to be the logical step. But then again TB is a heavy desktop application, so maybe it isn't possible.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what the OS is trying to be. It is not something for Android users to tinker with, if they choose to do so (and indeed most will never do so, because most...

As the man said, when it comes to privacy, "phones are borked". #-oEven the "Blackphone", which purports to be the ultimate in privacy for 700 bucks a pop, is actually still built on 20% Android and...

The mobile market is not the desktop market. It will take time, but Ubuntu has a decent shot at becoming a player in the former, and that means taking away sales from Android devices. It means...

Same here. My Dell ultraportable (one of the cheapest ultraportables there is) may not have had Ubuntu preinstalled on it - it is not always an option, depending on model and continent - but...

Amazon is a terrible, terrible choice. You can get just about every ebook in a DRM-free format now, and you should. You will be able to read them on any device and you will never lose them (provided...

Well, it is not finished, is it? Once it is finished (or close enough), and once it lives up to its billing (convergence etc.), I will certainly do my part in trying to promote and popularize it, by...

It would appear that they have accepted the demand (i.e. to be able to run desktop Firefox on the phone) with this recent declaration:

I don't know about the code, but from the user's perspective, bizarrely and annoyingly, the browser on Firefox OS does not resemble the Firefox browser on the desktop in any shape or form.



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But what about when you're on the go and you don't have any peripherals connected? Because I for one would like to run "desktop" Firefox all the time. The limited and truncated nature of all mobile...

Here I have to respectfully disagree. To me, "linux" means (among other things) user control, and control is method for (among other things) taking your privacy back from those systems, corporations...

That does seem like it should work. So if and when I can get Mir + Unity 8 onto a phone, I will finally have the device that I've wanted for at least five years.

I still cannot believe that when...

That is what I needed to know. Thanks very much to you both.

To be clear (and as you might have guessed from the above,) while the option of a total desktop environment on appropriately powerful...

Indeed, articles like the one you referenced are all over the place, hundreds of them. The trouble is that they all focus on the general specifications of the phone and on how usable it is as a...

Due to all the talk about the convergence (Ubuntu Edge etc.), it's actually very hard to find a real answer to this question on the open web. I have actually been holding off on buying a smartphone...