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[Wayne Ward <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I bought a BQ on the second flash sale and seen the progress, but the 
few problems it holds which somebody must be able to take control of is 
what everybody wants, IE facebook, google notifications, skype or some 
kind of video / conference type interface, instagram and a owncloud or 
some kind of document sync. The upgrades have been good but the last OTA 
update seemed to have killed the experience for me and made my phone 
just hard to use and just a bad experience messaging being unusable and 
the phone just generally being slow. I can see the videos of people 
running native ubuntu apps IE firefox, chrome.
I can only think that there must be some way of somebody managing this 
and building some kind of container that you can install and run some 
native apps and maybe take control of getting on to the big companies 
like intagram and skype to get some kind of feedback to see if they will 
make the packages or at least say yes or no then pursuing making a open 
source version etc.
The last worrying part is, i bought a BQ ubuntu 4.5, ok a accident 
happens and we dropped one cracking the screen, the screen isnt 
available on ebay like most screens to replace yourself or by a local 
phone company. After contacting BQ.. the replacement is 89 euro, then 20 
euro for shipping with no gurantee. A new phone of the same version is 
around 140 euro. 30 euro more.

so bad performance, lack of apps and easy cost effective replacements 
makes me wonder what the hell im doing. Im a life long hardened linux 
fan and loved the idea of the ubuntu phone but its not going the way i 
hoped.

ill probably buy a new ubuntu phone to replace the broken one and stick 
with the phone and struggle without notifications and the apps that i 
would like and hope that somebody actually takes on these major flaws.......

No offense intended, its just blowing of steam I guess? - Thoughts 
please...........

Regards

Wayne Ward