You Can Now Use an Ubuntu Phone's Screen as a Touchpad, Miracast Coming Soon | Linux Today

You Can Now Use an Ubuntu Phone’s Screen as a Touchpad, Miracast Coming Soon

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Marius Nestor
Feb 2, 2016

We were very intrigued by the whole thing, so we’ve contacted Michael Hall from Canonical regarding the images posted by Richard Soml??i. Mr. Hall reveals exclusively for Softpedia the fact that Nexus 4 devices currently support this functionality, and you can even use two-finger scrolling and three-finger tap for right-click.

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Marius Nestor

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