Friday, 15 November 2013

By  No comments Edit This

Ubuntu Touch Coming to the Oppo Find 5 Smartphone

Oppo-Find-5-Heading-To-US-Unlocked-For-499 



Work is underway on bringing Ubuntu Touch to the Oppo Find 5 smartphone.
The device is made by China-based electronics manufacturerOppo  Digital.
Like many 3rd party, community-contributed builds it will be not be formally supported by Canonical.
With the Oppo Find 5 sporting some impressive specs at an equally impressive price, the device could find favour with Ubuntu enthusiasts burnt out on the (seemingly inevitable) failure of the Edge campaign.

Specifications

Specifications wise the Oppo doesn’t quite match the Edge – but at $533 (nearly $300 less than the Edge’s original price), and the fact it’s already available to buy,  it’d be unfair to expect it to.
The device, available in 16GB and 32GB versions, comes with:
  • Snapdragon (A7) Quad-Core CPU @ 1.5GHz
  • Adreno 320 GPU
  • 5″ screen (1080×1920, 441 PPI)
  • 2GB RAM
Features-wise the device boasts the usual set:
  • GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, DLNA
  • WiFi Display & WiFi Direct
  • Gyroscope & digital compass
  • Light, IR proximity, magnetic & gravity sensors

Ubuntu Touch Progress

The developer behind the port, Oppo forum user Eoghan, has only just started ‘…getting a device tree etc modified to work with ubuntu touch’s build environment’. As such there’s little ‘fancy pants’ stuff to see for now.
But, with Ubuntu Touch developers providing a comprehensive set of documentation on porting Ubuntu Touch to Android devices, it shouldn’t be too long before Eoghan is able to get the platform up and running.
Here’s hoping that Ubuntu Touch also finds (ho-ho) its way to Oppo’s forthcoming R819 device. It’s slimmer, sleeker albeit less powerful than the Find 5.
For more information on the Ubuntu Touch port for the Oppo Find 5 head over to the official Oppo forums using the link below.

By  No comments Edit This

Nerds Vs Zombies: ZHackers Volume 2 Hits Ubuntu Software Center

zhackers_cover_gradients_final_preview 



Like a herd of the shuffling, mindless dead, the follow up to 2012′s Ubuntu-themed Zombie novel ‘Zhackers’ has taken a while to arrive.
But, over a year after the first instalment became a best seller on  the Ubuntu Software Center, volume 2 is finally upon us…
Zhackers, a ‘zombocalypse‘ story written by David Jordan, tells the saga of three weaponless Ubuntu-using nerds trying to find their way in a world gone to ruin.
“Can these hackers pull off their hardest hack yet, surviving the threat of zombies, thirst, hunger, and internet withdrawal?”
Now, I’ll ‘fess up: I haven’t had chance to read this latest instalment – which I’m told includes some pretty gruesome moments – but I was taken with the first volume, describing it in a mini-review as ‘a romp of a read’.

Jordan’s writing style strikes the perfect balance of wit, pace and characterisation – something I’m in no doubt he continues with in volume 2.
Zhackers is published under a Creative Commons license, lacks DRM, and is distributed in interactive, .pdf and ePub formats. This edition also comes with some extras: an interactive 3D cover and an additional short story.
The novel is available to buy direct from the Ubuntu Software Center for $2.99.

By  No comments Edit This

WhatsApp Coming to Firefox OS – Could Ubuntu Touch Be Next?

ZTE-Open-Firefox-OS_1 






With over 350 million active users a month across 100 countries, sending a staggering 18 billion messages a day, WhatsApp, the multi-platform mobile messaging service, is undeniably popular. 
And, if reports that it’s heading to Firefox OS are accurate, it’s about to get even more popular.

WhatsApp Goes WebApp

According to several leading tech sites in Spain, the telecoms carrier ‘Telefรณnica‘ has, apparently, confirmed that an official WhatsApp client will be released for FirefoxOS sometime before the year is out. The launch of the app will coincide with new Firefox OS-powered handsets from LG and Sony.
Spanning platforms is part of what has made WhatsApp popular. The more people who can use the service, the more money the company behind it can, potentially, make. Official clients are already available on Android, iOS, Blackberry and Windows Phone, as well as many others. Adding FirefoxOS to this line-up, if true, makes perfect sense.
With adoption of Firefox OS growing – another european carrier, Telenor, has announced plans to bring Firefox OS smartphones to Serbia, Montenegro and Hungary shortly – the arrival of big name apps like WhatsApp will become more and more commonplace.
Could such apps also find their way on to Ubuntu Touch?
We’ve since heard from a source that WhatsApp have “no plans” to support Ubuntu Touch.
While Canonical’s mobile OS lacks hardware partners, telecom carriers and definite release plans, it may find itself able to bask in the successes of Mozilla’s OS and its decision to push open, web-based technologies as a basis for its apps.
Any WhatsApp client running on Firefox OS will likely make use of HTML5, Javascript and open hardware APIs. As such, getting it to run on other platforms that embrace web apps, like Ubuntu Touch, wouldn’t require too much effort on the part of WhatsApp developers.
When you next see someone comment that they’ll only use Ubuntu Touch when it has a WhatsApp client, be sure to tell them that that day could be much closer than they think.


By  No comments Edit This

Ubuntu Tablet Will be ‘Key Focus’ During Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Cycle

Ubuntu_Tablet_Smaller 


Honing the Ubuntu Touch tablet interface will be the “focus” of Ubuntu’s development activities over the next 6 months.
For April 2014′s release of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Canonical are aiming to release version 1.0 of the Ubuntu for Tablets for the Nexus 7 and 10 hardware.
Ubuntu Touch images are already available for both tablets but lack support for hardware features like camera and sensors. Similarly, both the UI and Mir, the display server, lack tablet-specific optimisations.
Work on improving ‘side-stage’, the Windows 8-like feature for running two applications on screen side-by-side, will also get underway. To make use of this, many of Ubuntu’s core apps will be adapted to become “convergent” – better able to make use of larger screens and tablet workflows.
Several apps will also be redesigned.
Canonical Community Manager Jono Bacon says that ‘press, carriers and OEMs‘ are ‘excited’ by the tablet OS story, adding that tablets are “easy…for people to ship” due to the need to pass through fewer regulatory checks and certifications.
With no major carriers or OEMs yet to signal plans to adopt Ubuntu Phone, Canonical’s mobile plans may fare better on tablets. The cost to market is lower, with small computer resellers able to buy and import no-brand tablets from abroad and install the OS themselves.

Emulator, Phone 1.5 & New-Look Apps

While the push on the Tablet front will, Bacon says, command ‘a big chunk of focus’ this cycle, it’s not the only effort getting underway.
Work on adding an emulator to the Ubuntu SDK is ongoing. The goal is to allow developers lacking reference hardware the ability to test and iterate their apps within the Ubuntu Touch framework.

Ubuntu Phone 1.5

Ubuntu for Phones will reach version 1.5 in April next year. This milestone will feature improvements to the OS, including limits on the amount of memory apps can access and battery life optimisations.
Other key aspects, like vibration support, a way to shutdown and restart the phone, app ratings, reviews and purchases, etc, will also feature. So too  will a set of ‘expanded scopes’ featuring refinements to the way results are displayed and filtered.

Ubuntu Desktop

The Ubuntu desktop is unlikely to see any major changes this cycle, with Unity 7 remaining in ‘maintenance mode’.
The aim is to offer a preview session of Unity 8 (not desktop optimised) running on Mir as a login option in 14.04 LTS.
Full desktop convergence is not planned until nearer Ubuntu 14.10, due October 2014. Even then this is only a goal. The sheer undertaking involved in tailoring Unity 8 and Mir for desktop use may see it pushed back to Ubuntu 15.04.




By  No comments Edit This

Linux E-Mail App ‘Geary’ Updated With IMAP Fixes

Geary 0.4 In Ubuntu 13.10 



Desktop Linux e-mail app Geary has been updated with a number of key bug fixes.
In the first update to the popular mail client since October’s major release of version 0.4, a number of issues have been corrected. They include a problematic crash that occurred when an IMAP connection timed out.
Other fixes listed by Yorba, the non-profit organisation behind the app, include:
  • Compile-time support for WebKitGTK 2.2
  • IMAP STARTTLS Connection Failure Bug Fix
  • IceWarp IMAP Servers Crash Fix
  • IMAP Connection Timeout Crash Fixed
  • CamelCased MIME Type Fix, Preventing Blank E-mails
  • Missing RTL Icons Added
Geary 0.4.1 can be installed on Ubuntu 12.10 and 13.04 from the official Yorba PPA.
Ubuntu 13.10 users should find this latest update available from the Ubuntu Software Center (or, if already installed, via the Software Updater) in the coming weeks


 
 

Tuesday, 12 November 2013

By  No comments Edit This

Motorola Moto G harga Murah spek mantap






Mengintip warna-warni Motorola Moto G


Smartphone Motorola Moto G yang dikabarkan akan meluncur esok hari sudah menunjukkan wujud aslinya.
Dilansir Softpedia (12/11), dari foto yang pertama kali diunggah oleh situs Evleaks melalui akun Twitternya ini akan hadir di pasaran cover belakang warna-warni, layaknya smartphone Motorola Moto X.
Berdasarkan lansiran tersebut, kemungkinan Motorola Moto G ini akan dirilis di India. Hal ini semakin diperkuat dengan update status dari Motorola India. "Namaste India! Daftar hari ini untuk menikmati global streaming hari Rabu, dan jadilah orang pertama yang menyaksikan Moto G." tulis Motorola India di akun Facebooknya.
Motorola Moto G akan dilepas ke pasaran dengan dibekali spesifikasi seperti layar 4,5 inci 720pp dengan Gorilla Glass, prosesor quad-core 1,2GHz Snapdragon, RAM 1GB, internal memori 8 GB, kamera belakang 5MP dengan kemampuan perekaman video hingga 720p, dan kamera depan 1,3MP.
Smartphone yang akan menggunakan Android 4.3 Jelly Bean sebagai sistem operasinya ini juga akan didukung baterai dengan daya 1.950 mAh untuk menunjang agar Motorola Moto G bisa digunakan sepanjang hari.
Untuk perkiraan harganya, smartphone Motorola Moto G ini akan dibanderol dengan harga sekitar..



http://www.merdeka.com/teknologi/mengintip-warna-warni-motorola-moto-g.html