Phone Update: OTA-8
Canonical
on 19 November 2015
Tags: OTA update
This article was last updated 8 years ago.
The full list of Ubuntu Phone updates are provided below:
- New weather application
- Improved Contacts sync (implements a new syncronisation engine)
- The sound indicator now provides audio playback controls – currently play and pause only, skip forward/skip backward to follow
- New Twitter scope includes the ability to tweeet, comment, follow and unfollow
- New Book aggregator scope, with lots of regional content
- The OTA version is now reported in Settings > About this phone
- Location service now additionally provides location and heading information
- Web browser now includes:
- Media access permissions for sites
- Top level bookmarks view
- Thumbnails and grid view for Top Sites page
- Ubuntu store: QtPurchasing based in-app-purchases(currently in pilot mode)
- Various bug fixes: details can be found here
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