Question for Ubuntu Touch users

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Not sure if I am phrasing this correctly, but here goes: Is it possible to install wine and windows programs to a mobile phone running Ubuntu Touch?

eg. If I install Ubuntu Touch to a phone, or buy a phone with Touch on it, can I then install wine or playonlinux to the phone like I would on a desktop edition of Ubuntu?

Also, do Calibre and Coolreader or other ebook readers work on Touch?

Reason for asking is I would like to read ebooks on the phone, and there are some that I would prefer to read with a windows ebook reader program if possible.

I tried searching for "wine ubuntu touch" but I did not find an answer. If this has already been answered, I apologize for the duplicate and would be very grateful if anyone could point me in the right linky direction. Thanks very much in advance :)

you cant.... wine is not an emulator.... it needs the cpu architecture to be the same as the program you are trying to run from windows.... I assume you have a phone/tablet with arm cpu so its useless most windows are x86

Thanks for the quick reply! I actually have not picked a phone yet, I was just trying to do some research in advance before I picked one to buy.

I have heard about something called "deva" which is apparently wine for phones, but I couldn't find any information on it when I did a search. Possibly I misunderstood the reference I saw...

Ubuntu for devices has a set of core apps which includes a document viewer.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/CoreApps

Ubuntu phones will have an app store that we can use to install apps. All these apps have been security checked to make sure that they cannot do anything bad. They will be tightly controlled to prevent them accessing data that they have no right to access. They will all run in a sandbox to isolate them.

If an application is not in the app store then it should be considered a security risk. I am sure that the phone makers will have a large say on what we can and cannot do to their devices. We should not think of Ubuntu phones as Ubuntu on a phone and that we can do with the phone OS what we do to Ubuntu on a desktop. That I do not think that is going to happen. Not without voiding the warranty.

Applications that are suitable for a desktop monitor are not suitable for a phone or tablet size screen. Right now Ubuntu developers are working on the phone and tablet apps to make sure they scale for the desktop for when Ubuntu for devices is converged into Ubuntu for the desktop. It is the responsibility of application developers to port their applications so that they scale for mobile devices and then apply for them to be accepted into the phone app store.

See the features of Ubuntu for devices. I htink that you will find you will not need applications like Calibre. Swipe gestures will be enough as each instance of an application runs on it own surface and we can swipe through them.

http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/features

Regards.

Thanks for taking the time to explain, grahammechanical! I was quite fuzzy on how the whole thing works so this helps a lot. I understand it a little better now :) I had the mistaken impression that I could use exactly the same programs on the phone as I could on the desktop, too bad that's not the case after all. I can live with only having apps specifically for the phone so long as I manage to find an ereader program I can use :)