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Evo baš čitam o ubuntu phone, da li je spreman za korištenje, pošto jedva čekam da se riješim mrskog mi androida na mobitelu.
Nigdje ne vidim da piše hoće li uskoro ubuntu imati aplikacije koje većina ljudi koristi? Mene najviše zanima nešto poput sportske aplikacija "sport tracker", naravno i "whatsapp" i sličnih popularnih aplikacija bez kojih nitko neće napustiti android?

Some information about a Meizu Pro 5 running Ubuntu Touch was posted by gizchina.it, and it's not the first time that it proved to be correct.

Unfortunately, they don't have any kind of information, so there are a couple of scenarios. The most probable one is that someone ported the operating system on a Meizu MX 5, so it has nothing to do with the Chinese company. The less probable scenario is that Meizu is preparing another release and "somehow" some images got loose on the Internet.

Meizu Pro 5 has a 5.7-inch AMOLED screen, two quad-core processors that can work in tandem when needed, a 1.5 GHz Cortex A53 and 2.1 GHz Cortex A57, 3GB (or 4GB) of RAM, 32GB or 64GB storage space, a powerful 21MP camera, fingerprint reader, and fast-charge battery.

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, the world's most popular free operating system, announced just a few minutes ago on their Twitter, Google+ and Facebook accounts that they're running a new user research study.

The study is about Ubuntu applications developed by members of the Ubuntu Linux community for the next-generation Unity 8 user interface that Canonical will implement by default in upcoming releases of the OS.

The research study is lead by Ting-Ray Chang, a user experience researcher at Canonical, and it is targeted mainly at Ubuntu or Fedora user in the London (United Kingdom) area. Why Fedora? That we don't know!

The latest Ubuntu convergence news is here, and we've just learned that you can now use the screen of an Ubuntu Phone device as a touchpad when mirroring it to an external monitor (wired or wireless).

Google+ user Richard Somlói published a few interesting photos earlier on his profile page, showcasing the new functionality on his Nexus 4 Ubuntu Phone connected to an LCD as a converged desktop and using the latest Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system from the rc-proposed channel (only for developers and early adopters).

"Nexus 4 - rc-proposed channel: You can use the phone screen as a touchpad. And if you click in a text field the keyboard appears on the phone screen instead of the external screen," said Richard Somlói in the Google+ post.

We were very intrigued by the whole thing, so we've contacted Michael Hall from Canonical regarding the images posted by Richard Somlói. Mr. Hall reveals exclusively for Softpedia that Nexus 4 devices currently support this functionality, and you can even use two-finger scrolling and three-finger tap for right click.

BQ and MEIZU phones not supported right now

Unfortunately, the functionality does not currently work with other Ubuntu Phone devices, such as BQ Aquaris E4.5, but according to Mr. Hall, it will as soon as the wireless display (also known as Miracast or display casting) feature is implemented in the mobile operating system.

Early adopters who can't wait to converge from their couch can try Miracast right now on their Ubuntu Phone devices using the instructions provided by Canonical at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/DisplayCasting, but be aware of the fact that the whole thing is very slow right now.

"I should also warn you, from what I've been told it's very, very slow right now, because it's dumping raw video frames from Mir over the network. There are plans to optimize that, but this is the quick and dirty implementation," said Michael Hall, Community Manager at Canonical.