I just got a new Aquaris E5.
The OOB experience was somewhat lacking.
On my first attempt to set up Wifi access, I selected my network, tapped “Show password”. Then, every time I hit a key on the OSK, I ended up with three or four random characters. It was impossible to enter the password. I put the phone down for a while. Returned to it (screen had locked itself in the mean time), and tried again, this time without “Show password”. On this second attempt, the keyboard worked as it should.
After setup (I allowed location data), the phone correctly got my location (well, within 10 km or so—there is no SIM in the phone). However, it still set my time zone to UTC+0, even though it should be UTC+10.
The today scope showed me the weather in Brisbane (well, near there), using Fahrenheit units. Here in Australia, we use Celsius but neither Today scope nor Weather scope allow me to change units. After changing the language to English (Australia), I get Celsius. However, I prefer to use US English for spelling and the like. Mashing language and units together in this way is fine for setting defaults, but not if there is no way to change one without also changing the other.
I then copied a bunch of music files onto the phone, using drag and drop from Nautilus. The copy started out quite well but, after a few seconds, transfer speed got less and less. After a few dozen files, it was down to 20 KB/sec. (Each file is a little over 8 KB in size.) Now, after 300 files, it’s still copying, but transfer speed has dropped to 6.5 KB per second, and is still dropping steadily (5.5 KB per second after 400 files). Now, after 15 minutes of waiting, it has transferred 4.2 MB (500 files) out of 8.7 MB total, and it tells me that I need to wait another 15 minutes for the remaining 4.5 MB, with the reported transfer speed at 4.5 KB/sec.
The summary is that, so far, I tried to do four things: enable Wifi access, get the current time, look at the weather, and copy some files into the Music folder. Not one of these worked as expected. Not a good first impression.
Anyone know what the appropriate projects in launchpad are to report these issues?
Thanks,
Michi.
