Day 6) Basic/unpolished rotation support for apps/Maliit has now been enabled in saucy-29 [cdimage.ubuntu.com] (may have been in saucy-28; i skipped that).

System settings app has been updated with a GPS on/off toggle, but still no functional location service in the browser.

Major blockers I see, preventing full/daily replacement of N900:

• GPS

• Music app doesnt launch on Galaxy Nexus

• no qt5 email client yet (Someone started[lists.launchpad.net] independently writing a new frontend for Trojita, but a bunch of balls have since gotten dropped, evaluation/decision [launchpad.net] of the official email application/framework was never made and now four months with 0 tangible progress [status.ubuntu.com].

• xmpp, oscar support in telepathy

Burndown status here: [http://status.ubuntu.com/coreapps-13.10/] gives a good idea of how the Canonical devs are hitting(missing) their 2013OCT goal. Only core app status is given (and not even all tasks are on the blueprints..); but even an unlisted core/platform issue is going to somewhat visible.. by way of holding up one core-app or another via a Blocker.

Irritations:

• No real options for chat and no Notifications integration with email makes daily use.. limiting. m.facebook.com 'messages' dont seem to work the same as 'chat' sent to offline users so even that cant be leveraged easily for SMS replacement.

• 3g/(ofono?) issue requiring reboot to reacquire lost data signal present in saucy-24 through saucy-29. Mr. Busch [launchpad.net/] was very helpful on IRC to point me to the main Touch ofono repository [code.launchpad.net], and indicated issue may(probably) be NetworkManager. Will have to introspect the ofono dbus api a bit with mdbus2, and see if better connection functionality is really there underneath without rebooting.

Most reliable sources for information, so far:
daily-current changelog [cdimage.ubuntu.com]
launchpad public mail archive[lists.launchpad.net] (hard to subscribe without email...)
SDK feature status [wiki.ubuntu.com]



Neat note: last week ubuntu team began testing '--flipped' builds, where instead of booting CM/android and running ubuntu in a chroot the idea is now to boot the hardware directly into ubuntu, but create an lxc container for the android libs. https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg02316.html

performance already appears very nice, but assuming direct control could be a good step toward unifying their builds across devices or even open a path for eventual native glibc/linux drivers.

Interestingly, in this configuration adbd is run on the Ubuntu side.