On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Wayne Ward <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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
