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
