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Re: My Review of Ubuntu Phone / Touch So Far

 

On 03/01/2013 01:34 PM, Ryan Walmsley wrote:
Hi Ubuntu Touch people on the mailing list,

One thing I haven't really noticed is someone providing a generic feedback of the system so far, I thought I would do that via the mailing list (Sorry if this is not the right place, I won't do it again ;-) )

First off My name is Ryan Walmsley and I am a 16 year old student studying IT in College (UK). I started using Ubuntu and Linux since about 10/11 and continue to use it today. The device I have used to test it on is my Nexus 4.

Being who I am I like to test technology and show it off so I wanted to be able to test out Ubuntu Touch (I got the Nexus 4 about 3 Weeks before with Ubuntu Touch being one of the reasons why I got the Nexus). First off I was stupid and didn't realize that It had no Mobile internet data (Oh how I miss it sometimes), But I stayed on and decided to try and keep it for one week, one of the first things I noticed was that the Facebook, GMail and twitter applications were the websites and they worked reasonably well out of the box (Only thing was that they kept detecting it as an iPhone/iOS Device). I installed SSH and was having fun doing stuff via terminal, shortly I had two youtube videos downloaded onto the device and could watch them completely fine. I shortly hit into my first block of all of the predone contacts but then found out how to remove them.

During the week the main things I found were the lack of 3G data (Or even slower) is painful. I know its not meant to be for production use yet but I think that this feature is REALLY needed. I also noticed that altough the battery usage has been slightly better due to no 3G the fact that there is no auto sleep programmed in yet drained the battery down due to the fact that I was used to the auto sleep & lock.

Apart from running quite slow sometimes I found that it is a very nice and simple to use but until it gets mobile data added I'm going to switch back to android.

So far it works really great as a system, but I do have a bit of an addiction to the internet while I take a boring bus to college.

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Thanks -

Ryan Walmsley


Hey Ryan , it's very nice that you hopped in and tried the OS , but you had the wrong expectations . The builds that were released were not remotely meant for daily usage . 3G data and native core apps are something that will surely be present in the normal releases . The current builds are just a visual and component overview of what's coming in the future .Nevertheless thanks for the feedback !

Petko

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