With some sadness I recently replaced my Ubuntu Phone with a Nexus 5. It lasted me just over 1000 days (almost three years) as my everyday phone, and I last wrote about it at the 500 mark.
Even though this is the end for me and Ubuntu Phone the hope of a true open source phone platform continues on:
My thoughts on my time with Ubuntu Phone:
Even though this is the end for me and Ubuntu Phone the hope of a true open source phone platform continues on:
- The Ubuntu Phone project lives on ubports.
- As I put my Ubuntu phone to rest the Purism Librem 5 project was funded with over $2 million!
My thoughts on my time with Ubuntu Phone:
- It worked!
- While the hardware (Meizu MX4) was reasonable hardware, it would have been nice to see it on something newer/faster and have gone through some more iterations on software performance.
- The apps I missed most were:
- An app for my bank and network provider (that I could use to quickly check balances).
- Communication apps (e.g. Facebook messenger, WhatsApp)
- Uber
- I used a reasonable amount of webapps, which mostly filled the gap where apps weren't available. I does appear that most companies put more effort into their mobile apps than mobile web.