[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone problems

2015-12-02 Thread David King
Since the latest system update a few days ago, has anyone else experienced some problems? Cannot connect to my Ubuntu PC on USB any more, PC does not recognise phone being there, although it did previously. Cannot read some emails in Dekko, they just appear blank, but were okay before. When cl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone

2015-12-02 Thread Barry Drake
On 01/12/15 14:15, Alan Pope wrote: No, other platforms (Jolla, Tizen) have it. Thanks Alan. I've looked carefully at Tizen. Their site's a bit strange to navigate around, but I found it quite fascinating. They are now listing on ebay some Tizen OS smartphones, and they have a number of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone

2015-12-02 Thread Alan Pope
On 2 December 2015 at 12:52, Barry Drake wrote: > They seem way ahead of Ubuntu in the phone market. I'm sad about that. > Inevitable. They had a massive head start and are/were backed by two massive companies - Intel & Samsung which have many hundreds of developers available to work on the plat

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone

2015-12-02 Thread Liam Proven
On 1 December 2015 at 17:17, Barry Drake wrote: > Oh, I know it's quite feasible. And quite a lot of the system is open > source. The Android core OS is FOSS, yes. The Google Play stuff is very much not, and Google is successfully manipulating the marketplace so that you really need that. As Am