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We recently covered the fact that Ubuntu Touch is being ported for the famous and elusive Oneplus 2 phone, even before the port for the Oneplus One was finished. The developer promised back then that he's working on both ports, and he just delivered.
The biggest problem when porting Ubuntu Touch on a new devices is the driver support. We've seen many phones running Ubuntu Touch and developers were saying that it's actually quite easy to make it run, but it's a different story if you want to make it work as a phone. The drivers for the radio or Wi-fi are not usually available, so most of the ports were actually lacking this important functionality. The same problem affected Oneplus One and Oneplus 2, only for different components.
The summary is misleading by saying the developer "delivered" a port for the OnePlus One phone. This is supposedly a smart phone, that now has cellular support, but is not yet stable. Moreover, it lacks headphone, Bluetooth and camera support, which reduces it to a lesser dumb phone at this stage.
Yes I should have read the article first before passing on the "good" news to a user that is having issues with his phone. However, I still believe the summary should have included at least a caveat in the overly enthusiastic summary.
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Yes I should have read the article first before passing on the "good" news to a user that is having issues with his phone. However, I still believe the summary should have included at least a caveat in the overly enthusiastic summary.