14 DAY TRIAL // Canonical has just promoted two fresh Ubuntu Touch development images, and the developers are making great progress with the new branch.
Ubuntu for phones and tablets was announced more than a year and a half ago and the developers are working hard to make that October deadline when the first Ubuntu powered phones are supposed to arrive, although this is not a date set in stone.
Recently, Canonical switched the development of Ubuntu Touch to the Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) tree, so the promoted images will be marked as development.
“Recipe of the day: 2 images promoted on the devel channel! The well-known network issue is now gone, one new regression spotted (was already there since image #4) and getting fixed in the incoming image. Multiple AP tests flakyness fixed and even more landings in the pipe. All seems good at getting greener and greener,” said Canonical’s Didier Roche on the official mailing list.
You can test the latest version of Ubuntu Touch if you have a Nexus 4 phone or one of the two Nexus tablets available right now from Google. A number of other devices might work with it, but you will be doing the testing without any support from Canonical. In order to get the latest (not necessarily stable) update, you will need to get the devel branch.
Canonical has a pretty comprehensive wiki in place to help users test Ubuntu Touch.