Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Ubuntu-touch-coreapps] Rss Visual Exploration

2013-07-23 Thread Michal Izydorczyk
Hello Thanks for your feedback :) This is 100% community developed project. I am more than happy to share some of my designs as well as other resources. For example in addition to the public app design patters site : http://design.ubuntu.com/apps I can share the psd file of the other app I've des

[Ubuntu-phone] [RSS Reader] tag an article or a feed ?

2013-07-23 Thread LiQiong Lee
Hi Pope, I want do the tag functions of RSS Reader. There are two sayings on the websit: 1) Tag/Untag an Atricle 2) tags(kind of category), like tag a feed as “Ubuntu”, so this feed belongs to “Ubuntu” category; I wonder how does tag go? -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-pho

[Ubuntu-phone] Rss Visual Exploration

2013-07-23 Thread Michal Izydorczyk
Hello Guys I hope you're all good today. I just wanted to give you a quick update on the RSS Reader visual exploration. You can find more here : http://design.canonical.com/2013/07/shorts-visual-exploration/ I hope you all like it ;) Have a good day Michal -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.n

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Ubuntu-touch-coreapps] [RSS Reader] tag an article or a feed ?

2013-07-23 Thread LiQiong Lee
Hi Joey, Thanks your replay. I read "Blueprints" again, It seems "RSS Reader" is going to be done. Are there something left to be done for RSS Reader? or i should take another app? Thanks again, LiQiong Lee On 07/20/2013 07:06 PM, Joey Chan wrote: Hi LiQiong, This feature already b

[Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu touch on Galaxy S Plus GT-I9001

2013-07-23 Thread Toni Guga
Hi folks, is there a possibility to install ubuntu touch on a Galaxy S Plus GT-I9001? -- Toni Guga Cel. (+39) 340 3425899 Email. toni.g...@gmail.com http://soundcloud.com/toniguga -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe :

[Ubuntu-phone] Battery Status Check ??

2013-07-23 Thread Charlie Smotherman
With the ubuntu-sdk how do you check the battery status? Will QtSystemInfo 5.0 be added to the SDK? -- Charlie Smotherman -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://h

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Ubuntu-touch-coreapps] [RSS Reader] tag an article or a feed ?

2013-07-23 Thread LiQiong Lee
Hi Joey, I just want to help. I have readed RSS Reader source code. I am glad to do something for RSS reader. Best Regards LiQiong Lee On 07/20/2013 07:34 PM, Joey Chan wrote: Hi LiQiong, RSS reader is still under development, many features are not done yet. If u wanna help, that's goo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Daniel Clem
I deleted the more relevant mail already, so sorry for being out of order. But we have a GSM phone and account from a pay as you go company called "Tracfone”. Is this Sim card compatible with?? If so I will definitely pledge one I have 830 saved. "Omar B." wrote: >Nice, thx for recording the

[Ubuntu-phone] phablet-saucy: patches from android src package

2013-07-23 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
Heya, Here is the rebase of patches applied in the ubuntu archive android package. Still need to fiddle with pulling the kernel though. At the moment I disable pull-lp-source / pul-lp-bin and instead use "chdist" to talk to ubuntu archive, as that is possible both locally and on the archive build

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2013-07-23 at 14:35 -0300, Cláudio Sampaio wrote: > Is Ubuntu Edge going to be open-source hardware? Most successful > products I've seen from crowdfunding are, but I see no mention of it > in Ubuntu Edge's page. Not being open-source hardware would be > unfortunate (As for an aside, the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Cláudio Sampaio
Is Ubuntu Edge going to be open-source hardware? Most successful products I've seen from crowdfunding are, but I see no mention of it in Ubuntu Edge's page. Not being open-source hardware would be unfortunate (As for an aside, the Parallella Open-Source Massive Computing Board just started selling

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Daniel Clem
Yes, yes I do. Who needs to make phone calls at home or use data around the house anyways. :-P Oliver Grawert wrote: >hi, >On Di, 2013-07-23 at 12:45 -0400, Daniel Clem wrote: > >> I'm very optimistic, only question is, do I wanna switch to GSM right >> now. > >yes you do (now that was an easy

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread John Nelson
There was an Ubuntu phone before this one that hit the market? Which market? On Jul 23, 2013 11:36 AM, "Josh Leverette" wrote: > Verizon does want in, but on phones they can control. This won't be the > first or the last Ubuntu phone to hit market, by any means. > > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:1

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2013-07-23 at 12:45 -0400, Daniel Clem wrote: > I'm very optimistic, only question is, do I wanna switch to GSM right > now. yes you do (now that was an easy answer) :) ciao oli signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Mailing list: https://lau

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Daniel Clem
Yes, but that will most likely be the the middle number. With a few ups and downs. 23 mill would be easy if the average hit 1000 a couple times. Plus every good Fundraiser that's well publisized has a big surge at the end. Humans being un-mathematical in their actions means numbers are just rou

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Mike Bybee
On 07/23/2013 09:21 AM, Josh Leverette wrote: Correction, "The real numbers aren't nearly that optimistic", where "that" refers to your $80,000,000 number. The real numbers aren't nearly /that/ optimistic. They're in the range of $20,000,000 or so for all pledges combined throughout the next mo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Josh Leverette
Correction, "The real numbers aren't nearly that optimistic", where "that" refers to your $80,000,000 number. The real numbers aren't nearly *that* optimistic. They're in the range of $20,000,000 or so for all pledges combined throughout the next month. On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Josh Leve

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Josh Leverette
If you look at my graph, the average is significantly skewed by the $600 perk. The average slope for the 2nd half of the graph is $605.43 per 90 seconds. The real numbers aren't nearly that optimistic, which fits with what I said in my earlier emails. On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Daniel Clem

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Daniel Clem
If that trend holds there will be a total of almost 80,000,000. Obviously it will have ups and downs, but even half that average would reach the goal. Will re-investigate GSM's signal strength in my area, as well as data plans. Josh Leverette wrote: >The only number I'm writing down is the tot

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Josh Leverette
The only number I'm writing down is the total funding amount so far at each interval, I'm not writing anything down about individual users. I feel like anything more than just looking at the total would be kind of sketchy. I ran some analysis and out of all of the 90 second periods, the most amount

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Omar B .
Nice, thx for recording the data and the graph. did you get any data on individuals who may had purchased multiple times consecutively? , how many each individual got ? I Think indiegogo only lets you select one perk even if you add more cash to the amount. So it wouldn't be a surprise if some ma

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Josh Leverette
Actually, this will probably help. This is the amount of funding the project had received over time. The data was sampled at a rate of once every 90 seconds. You can clearly see the moment when the $600 phone option ran out. Calculating the trend line for the second half of the graph indicates that

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Josh Leverette
Verizon does want in, but on phones they can control. This won't be the first or the last Ubuntu phone to hit market, by any means. On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Joey Carlini wrote: > Wait, why would Verizon be on the advisory board for Ubuntu Touch, if they > want nothing to do with above?

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Josh Leverette
I'm not saying companies *couldn't* buy from the indiegogo deal. I'm just saying the companies with the money to buy from this fundraiser wouldn't be able to move fast enough to have gotten in on the 1st day of sales. Companies move slowly for the most part, and I was watching the sales figures car

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Daniel Clem
Well I've been out of contract for more than 1 and a half years, took 3 warranty replacements and a new battery though. So far this month I've used more than 4.5 gigs. I tether to my computer a lot, and if this is going to serve partially in the PC realm I know I will use at least they much. I

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Josh Leverette
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/16/verizon-unlimited-data-plans_n_1521967.html It doesn't matter that you're grandfathered. You won't have unlimited by the time your next contract rolls around, from what I understand. However, I am curious. How much data do you use each month, exactly? I hav

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Omar B .
>Stores and resellers were not purchasing from indiegogo yesterday. There might >have been one or two, but that's simply not what happened. This whole campaign >is all about individuals buying these phones. I don't want to see this >campaign fail anymore than you do. People will either buy them

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Joey Carlini
Wait, why would Verizon be on the advisory board for Ubuntu Touch, if they want nothing to do with above? On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Daniel Clem wrote: > i knew they were bad, but didn't know they were bad. > > AT&T's and other GSM carriers maps does show our house as having medium > sig

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Daniel Clem
i knew they were bad, but didn't know they were bad. AT&T's and other GSM carriers maps does show our house as having medium signal but my Sister on T mobile can barely make a call without dropping it. I would like to find someone with AT&T to test it. But I don't know of any. Plus I am "grand

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Josh Leverette
Hmm. Ok. I use Verizon too, but I would switch to Straight Talk (uses AT&T's network) for this phone. Here's why this phone cannot possibly come to Verizon. With CDMA networks, the carrier has complete control over every phone that tries to connect to the network. They check the device ID and deci

[Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Touch Summary (week 28)

2013-07-23 Thread Sergio Schvezov
Here's the summary: - Image base upgrades[1] are out for testing, phablet-flash can now install image base updates with --ubuntu-boostrap. Before applying read [2] - Click packages updated to new manifest. Hooks for security and desktop file in progress. - The strategy for video playback with hardw

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Daniel Clem
Agreed. And here in USA the "Modern American Mentality” has taken over and people don't realized that high quality products come at a price. They are used to 2 year contracts that get them "latest hardware” at 200 to 300. But this device being 3 times the power and quality, but not 3 times the p

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Josh Leverette
Stores and resellers were not purchasing from indiegogo yesterday. There might have been one or two, but that's simply not what happened. This whole campaign is all about individuals buying these phones. I don't want to see this campaign fail anymore than you do. People will either buy them at $830

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Omar B .
>So implementing possibilities to "buy" a smartphone with less specs isn't >compatible with the goal of this campaign.A little less specs Not being >compatible is your opinion.The only fact I see is that they set a goal and >would much prefer for it to be be reached. Am sure they have months or

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] [development] Some thoughts about Ubuntu touch on the Nexus 10

2013-07-23 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi, homescreen == unity8 Not sure about the settings app. Br, Michael On Tuesday 23 July 2013 08:41:55 Josh Leverette wrote: > I can't find the launchpad page for the homescreen. What is the name of > that package? And where should I report bugs about the swipe gestures? > Also, where is the sy

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Josh Leverette
yeah. I agree. There will be plenty of mid and low end Ubuntu phones eventually. This is not one of those. On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Simon wrote: > This campain isn't (mainly) about selling Ubuntu Touch. It is to tell > manufacturers: "Hey there is a demand for Smartphones with power bey

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] [development] Some thoughts about Ubuntu touch on the Nexus 10

2013-07-23 Thread Josh Leverette
I can't find the launchpad page for the homescreen. What is the name of that package? And where should I report bugs about the swipe gestures? Also, where is the system settings app? Otherwise, I've reported most of these bugs. On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Zisu Andrei wrote: > He was asking

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Brett Biery
This is a "formula 1" prototype, I don't think they are trying to compete by offering diversity in their lineup because they don't plan to get in the hardware game. They want to prove there is demand for this concept so that carriers support the platform. Basically the people running the hardw

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Simon
This campain isn't (mainly) about selling Ubuntu Touch. It is to tell manufacturers: "Hey there is a demand for Smartphones with power beyond the todays specs". So implementing possibilities to "buy" a smartphone with less specs isn't compatible with the goal of this campaign. Am 23.07.2013 15:13

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Omar B .
>I hope it will be selling not only through indiegogo. I want this phone, but I >will not found 830 USD till 21th of August it will be exclusive to backers. And I think this needs to be made more clear. However, I think people are also confused about the 600 and $830, there needs to be a bit more

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Николай Шатохин
I hope it will be selling not only through indiegogo. I want this phone, but I will not found 830 USD till 21th of August 2013/7/23 Daniel Clem > I would really like to pledge the 830. But I don't see any denial or > confirmation of having Verizon support. It mentions GSM, but also Mark > Shut

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Daniel Clem
I would really like to pledge the 830. But I don't see any denial or confirmation of having Verizon support. It mentions GSM, but also Mark Shuttleworth said it has "Dual LTE" so it can be used on "Both LTE Standards". Which in my opinion refers to having Verizon LTE, as well as AT&T/International

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Sam Bull
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 17:43 -0700, Mike Bybee wrote: > See Ouya as a capital example. I could have told you on day 1 that Ouya and GameStick would suck. To this day I have no idea why so many people invested money in these projects, they seemed like terrible ideas to me. This phone is the first cr

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Nathan Haines
On 07/23/2013 12:58 AM, Николай Шатохин wrote: Is this Ubuntu Touch or Ubuntu 4 Android? Both. It dual boots either Ubuntu (Touch) or Android, which has Ubuntu for Android preinstalled. -- Nathan Haines Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com/ -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone P

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Николай Шатохин
Is this Ubuntu Touch or Ubuntu 4 Android? 2013/7/23 Omar B. > > Exactly, You CAN NOT get burned with this campaign, it has double $ back > warranty. > > -The first $ back is if it doesn't reach the goal since it's all or > nothing. > > -The second $ back is that can try the device for almost a