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Watch: Canonical Showing Off the Latest Unity 8 Interface for Ubuntu Phone

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Marius Nestor
Oct 2, 2015

In the one-minute long video, you can see the Unity 8’s desktop mode. Mr. Hall connects a Bluetooth mouse to an Ubuntu phone, which immediately converts the interface into a desktop. After the Bluetooth mouse is connected, and Unity 8 is transformed into a desktop mode, the mouse cursor appears on the smartphone’s interface and there’s also an indicator showing that the mouse device has been connected to the phone.

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Marius Nestor

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