I have the production BQ 4.5 phone, with the inverted selfie camera,
hopefully fixed in OTA12
https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1567542
and the utterly broken location services
https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1567542
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/location-service/+bug/1554604
the only way to get a location is to use a moving dot map application
and wait and wait for a fix, then you can go to your other location
aware thing so it doesn't give out a spectacularly stale location.
and of course, almost broken mobile data (need to flip in and out of
airplane mode all the time to turn data on and wait and wait for it to
reconnect)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1565717
If mobile data worked, and location services got out of the way of the
GPS and the camera was the right way up, it would be a really good
platform for doing stuff. As it is I have been putting off a customer
project for ages, and I am probably going to have to recommend Android
for it, because the Ubuntu Touch location services cache is just not
acceptable. If there was just a toggle somewhere saying "never ever give
a cached location older than 1 minute" then it would be so much better.
Imagine using Pokemon go on this platform and suddenly the Pokemon you
think is in front of you suddenly moves to a different city because it
is really where you were yesterday!
Alan.
On 14/07/16 14:40, Rodney Dawes wrote:
ALL of these things were working pretty much fine for me the last time
I tried to use them, on my Nexus 5 with Ubuntu.
On Thu, 2016-07-14 at 13:21 +0100, Alan Bell wrote:
presumably Pokemon Go isn't going to do much catching on Ubuntu
Touch?
If location services ever becomes functional and starts handing out
current location data rather than where you were last week, and the
cameras are the right way up it appears that a standards based web
application could be built around a similar concept. It would be
quite
fun to do, if the platform just worked a bit better.
Alan.
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