Not long ago, we reported on the fact that Ubuntu Touch was 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 was working on both ports, and he has 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 was actually quite easy to make it run, but it is 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.
Now, the developer who is porting Ubuntu Touch for Oneplus One has just reported that he just got cellular support, and that’s one more step closer to a finished build. As it stands right now, the only things that don’t yet work are headphones, Bluetooth, and camera. The cellar network is one of the hardest nuts to crack. We can only hope that the rest will follow soon and that other developers will get inspired by this achievement and they will start their own ports for other devices.
OnePlus One is about to become an Ubuntu phone
“Hint: cellular works on the Oneplus one. All i can say is that’s it’s really unstable, more news coming tomorrow with a new build coming to the devel branch (I’m gonna push it only to the devel branch (with no apparmor) due to how unstable it is),” writes the developer on the official forums.
Ubuntu Touch is now officially running on Nexus 4, Bq Aquaris e4.5 and E5 HD, and Meizu MX4. This family is about to get bigger, and maybe OnePlus 2 will follow soon enough.
Via Softpedia