[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone

[Barry Drake]

On 01/12/15 14:19, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 1 December 2015 at 15:15, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
>> No, other platforms (Jolla, Tizen) have it.

> And Blackberry 10, which isn't even a version of Linux. (I have a
> Passport, a new smartphone with an actual physical *keyboard*. There's
> innovation for you!)

Oh, I know it's quite feasible.  And quite a lot of the system is open 
source.  Since it runs on a very limited Linux kernel, I can see it 
wouldn't be much of a problem.  If any of the phone team are listening, 
please put it on the wish-list.

The physical keyboard is retrovation.  My first smartphone was running 
Windows Mobile 5.  I updated an app to run on that phone, and had to 
write a Windows XP app to allow modules (texts) to be added.  It was 
that process that finally made me bin Windows altogether.  It was just 
so flakey under the surface, and the 'Frameworks' were ridiculous to 
work with.

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