[ubuntu-uk] SOT - What phone do you use?

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

On 14/03/15 11:41, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 06/03/15 09:10, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
>>
>> Just trying to get a straw poll of what phones people use here and > 
>> why.......
>>
>
> Mine's currently a Huawei Ascend Y300-100.  I got it because it was a 
> cheap option, with a lot of internal memory (I thought).  In practice, 
> I haven't found a way or rooting it, so the useable memory now is less 
> than I achieved on my rooted Samsung Galaxy. Memory handling is awful 
> on Android systems.  I think you need to do a factory reset every six 
> months.  Also, I've now gone very sour towards Android since I bought 
> an Android Tablet, and got so frustrated with the way it wanted me to 
> work that I gave it the grand kids.
>
I quite agree with you about Android phones! I have a Sony Xperia E3 
that has 8GB internal storage with <1GB free. I also have a Windows 
phone, with 8GB internal storage that with very similar apps installed 
has >3GB free! How can that be?

> I expect my next phone will be an Ubuntu Phone.  It will depend on 
> what apps I can get for it.  The only two Android apps I depend on are 
> the free satnav app, and the Virgin phone app that lets me make WiFi 
> calls from anywhere in the world via my landline based system.

As long as the phone can access Owncloud calendar, tasks and Contacts, 
then it'll do for me!