14 DAY TRIAL // Canonical is preparing a new update for Ubuntu Touch, which will receive a large number of changes and improvements for battery life.
Canonical is working tirelessly to improve the Ubuntu Touch experience and this is now all the more important because they already have a phone in the wild. The pressure to deliver updates and improvements has increased because people who bought phones are waiting for them. And to be fair, what could be better than to receive battery improvements?
The interface is pretty much a done deal, so they won't have to work too much on that, but it doesn't mean they can't improve upon other things as well. This is a complex piece of software and it will probably never be really complete, just like any other mobile OS out there.
A new OTA update is being prepared
One of the things separating Ubuntu from the rest of the pack is the software support, which is done much more often. If you have iOS, Windows, or Android, you're going to get maybe a few system updates a year. On Linux systems, which also includes Ubuntu, this is done with greater frequency.
"This week is the OTA-2 week. We are now waiting for final fixes to land and will proceed with building a release candidate soon. We might want to build the image a bit earlier this time since QA needs to perform additional OTA testing besides the usual regression suite. The exact date will be known tomorrow," said Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak on the official mailing list.
The promised battery improvements were announced last week and they seem to have gone through the testing process successfully. This is an OTA update, so all users with the proper channels and installations will receive it. We'll inform you when the actual update will be made available.