Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Canonical has worked a lot at their Ubuntu Touch. The latest Ubuntu Touch images got some of the new Unity 8 scopes implemented by default and a bunch of improvements and bug-fixes.
But Canonical has big plans for their Ubuntu Touch. Now, they are working at adding support for dual SIM and conference calls.
Also, Canonical has recently announced that they have started the work for their own email client (based on the good old Trojita), while an Ubuntu instant messaging client called “Ubuntu IM” will become available in May, 2014.
The story so far:
Canonical has been working a lot at Ubuntu Touch, the mobile version of Ubuntu. While the initial plan was to make it available for all the Google Nexus smartphones and tablets, the developers have dropped the support for Galaxy Nexus, Google Nexus 7 2012 and Google Nexus 10, Ubuntu Touch being officially available only for the Google Nexus 4 smartphone and the Google Nexus 7 2013 tablet.
Until now, there aren’t a lot of applications for Ubuntu Touch available, Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth hopes that by the time the first Ubuntu Touch powered phones hit the market, the top 50 Android/iOS apps will be available for Ubuntu Touch.
While Canonical is working its own email client for Ubuntu Touch (based on Trojita), a Telegram client specially optimized for Ubuntu Touch and Unity 8 is on the way, so the Ubuntu Touch app ecosystem is still growing.
Also worth mentioning, Mark’s Shuttleworth big dream is to reach full desktop-mobile convergence somewhere between the releases of Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 15.04 (between October 2014 and April 2015).