This page describes the plans to develop Plasma Mobile from a high-level. Day-to-day development and planning is done in KDE's Phabricator system.

Milestones

Plasma Mobile 0.1 "Prototype" (finished)

The Plasma Mobile prototype shows the viability of Plasma on a handheld device. The prototype boots a reference device, is able to make phone calls, select contacts from an address book and contains partly functional outlook on how handset running Plasma could look like. <embedvideo service="youtube">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auuQA0Q8qpM</embedvideo> Plasma Mobile 0.1 provides:

Phone stack definition (libhybris if necessary, Frameworks 5 and Plasma on top)
Basic proof-of-concept Plasma Shell providing the handset UI, including:
- App launcher
- Draggable top panel
- Task switcher
- Settings application
- Proof-of-concept set of apps

Plasma Mobile 1.0 "Feature Phone" (WIP)

Plasma Mobile 1.0 provides an end-user ready experience with a minimal, useful feature set. This includes the underlying OS and plumbing layers, a workspace to launch and manage apps, some basic system functions to set up the network, show connection status, etc. Functions that a 1.0 should provide:

Answering and initiating phone calls
Contacts / Address book
Sending and receiving SMS, possibly other IM service as SMS is pretty old fashioned
Input: good virtual keyboard with several layouts support, localization and right-to-left layouts support
Hardware functions:
- Volume control
- Network control (wifi and Mobile), incl. airplane mode
Basic settings
- Language / Locale
- Clock / Timezone
- Ringtone / Notification sounds / Do-not-disturb
- Mobile network functions and settings
  - APN
  - Roaming
  - Tethering
  - Data Limits
Web browser with basic functions (possibly 3rd party)
SDK: A software development kit allowing to hack on Plasma Mobile core and 3rd party apps
Appstore, installing, updating and removing apps
Photo / Video camera: allows recording photos and videos
Image / photo gallery
Video player

See Plasma Mobile 1.0 workboard.

Plasma Mobile 2.0 "Basic Smartphone"

Plasma Mobile 2.0 builds upon the basic functionality provided in 1.0, and provides more functions:

Personal Information Management
- Email reading and sending
- Calendar
- Reminders
Multimedia
- Listening to audio / music
- Accessing files through MTP (or equivalent protocol)
Applications ecosystem

See Plasma Mobile 2.0 workboard.

Plasma Mobile 3.0 "Featured Smartphone"

Cloud storage integration
Games
Cool apps
working Android emulation