I have difficulties finding out the current status of convergence. There have been a few videos and photos around on YouTube, Google+, OMG!Ubuntu, Ubuntu Wiki, but I've found no official roadmap or release date for an Ubuntu Touch release with convergence features enabled in general (on any device). Even worse, on OMG!Ubuntu a commenter mentions having been told by a Canonical representative that convergence will never be available for bq Aquaris (4.5) devices: """ "The guy in charge of phone development at Canonical UK told me recently that you won't be able to 'converge' your Aquaris. For one thing the E4.5 isn't able to support MHL. It just doesn't have the required hardware to run as a desktop." """ See below for some sources.
Also, I've just bought a MHL micro USB to HDMI adapter [1], which works great for attaching USB pen drives, but when I try to attach either a wireless keyboard and mouse [2], or an external monitor to my bq Aquaris E5 Ubuntu Edition (latest OTA, 15.04, r6, VEGETEA01A-...) nothing happens. Attaching a bluetooth mouse [3] to the phone isn't supported yet either; same for the bluetooth keyboard of my kids' Kano device. At least on the stock image updated over the air. So,what is actually true? Will Ubuntu Touch on our devices be capable to do convergence, say, with the next OTA update? When can we expect convergence to work for all devices by default? Is there a status page or roadmap somewhere? (BTW, just noted that my phone runs 15.04; will the next OTA bring 15.10?) Peter -- Videos, images, posts on convergence: - https://plus.google.com/+DanielWood/posts/BUTLNA7EpEA - https://plus.google.com/+DanielWood/posts/9pxKKAsiz5w - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/02/new-video-shows-off-ubuntu-convergence-demoed-on-tablet-phone - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/06/first-ubuntu-phone-with-convergence-is-being-made-by-bq - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TunisianTeam/Presentations?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Ubuntu-touch-the-super-smartphone-convergence.pdf [1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=xcsource+5in1+AC148&t=canonical&ia=products [2] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rapoo+e9100p&t=canonical&iac=1 [3] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=logitech+ultrathin+toch+mouse&t=canonical&ia=products -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
