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Re: ubuntu phone experience

 

Yes, I knew it might take a while and love the phone I think its just the new slow down on messages I find frustrating but I see most things and bugs I have problems with will be ironed other by ota 7/8 The ssreen just cracked when we dropped it, I'm tempted to try a stock bq screen they are cheap have navigation on just wont connect that bit?! Wayne

On Tuesday, 15 September 2015 22:38:08 BST, Gareth France wrote:
On 15/09/15 22:29, Kevin Gunn wrote:
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

Wow! How on earth did you break one? Mine has taken a few falls and the case cracks open each time. It just needs clipping back together and I find this very reassuring because it at least means I can get into the damn thing if ever I need to! I understand the performance of the phone and the state of the apps is frustrating but think about it, we've had is it 2 or 3 OTA updates since the phones shipped? We really are at the thin end of the wedge here, and we all knew it would be like this whilst the heavy work was being done didn't we?

For me it is the best phone I've ever owned and I'm just waiting on bluetooth and the niggling GPS issues to be resolved and the rest is just nit picking. Just a thought, did you buy a case to go with yours?




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