Monday, January 13, 2014

Ubuntu Touch will not come so soon to Nexus 5 - Tecmundo

 Ubuntu Touch will not come so soon to Nexus 5 (Image Source: Reproduction / Craig Tuttle)

today (13) The team of engineers responsible for developing the Ubuntu Touch published an official note which can leave many people disappointed. According to the statement, Canonical decided to drop support for some older devices in the next builds mobile operating system.

The gadgets were cut

the Galaxy Nexus, the Nexus 7 (version 2012) and Nexus 10. This means that you can no longer install the next versions of OS on such devices, unless you resort to unofficial ways of doing it.

Moreover, the team of developers said there are no immediate plans to make it compatible with the Nexus 5, the newest member of the family of handsets from Google system. According to the report, include the new smartphone in the list of compatible devices entail “very high cost” factor that encouraged the company to stay focused on the Nexus 4 as a development platform.

To work in the version of Ubuntu for tablets, Canonical will adopt as the standard version of the Nexus device released on 7 July 2013. Remember that the 1.0 edition stable OS gadgets to large screens will be officially launched in April this year, along with the next Ubuntu desktop (14:04 Trusty Tahr).

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