ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Andrea Bernabei <andrea.bernabei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Michael Zanetti <
michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On 25.07.2015 15:59, Marcin Xc wrote:
> > What I hate about smartphones :-) (yep, there we go again;-)))) and miss
> > from old Nokia phones is the reliable alarm clock. I mean we could set
> > it then kill the battery so that the phone turned off but the alarm
> > clock would ring and wake us up. Are the smartphones only so smart while
> > turned on? Is the whole system so down after turning off that the alarm
> > clock can't work any more?
>
> Yes, I agree on this topic. While all the old phones I had were 100%
> reliable as an alarm clock, I cannot completely trust any Ubuntu,
> Android or iOS device to get the job done...
>
>
I agree this is must-have, alarm clock has to be reliable. The problem is,
when I was
discussing exactly this topic with some of my friends (not working for
Canonical), they
didn't seem to care about it. Some of them told me "if you want a reliable
alarm you
don't use a phone, you use a proper alarm". So, yeah...some people are not
used
to having a reliable alarm phone anymore, so they don't even expect that
feature
to be available, and this gives it a lower priority on roadmaps :(

(by the way, those are my own opinions)


> Here's some bugs I reported related to this:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/+bug/1420169
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ux/+bug/1317860
>
> While the reliability of Nokia phones probably could only be achieved by
> adding a micro-system, just bootet in case the alarm should ring in a
> low battery condition, fixes for the above two would probably get us
> very close to a good solution I'd say.
>
> Br,
> Michael
>
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