[ubuntu-uk] Further Ubuntu phone observations

Gareth France gareth.france at cliftonts.co.uk
Tue Mar 24 19:21:46 UTC 2015


Having spent my first whole day with the phone today I have to say it 
has been a real mixed experience. It feels like I could really get to 
like the interface but it is currently suffering from a few show 
stoppers (as you would expect right now).

I have spent the whole day on the move today and the nearby scope 
offered up some interesting content on the motorway. Unfortunately the 
first time I tried to use it, it disappeared and hasn't been seen since. 
For most of the day the scopes were virtually blank, the facebook app 
loaded essentially a facebook skeleton and the software centre wouldn't 
display anything until you did a search. My sneaking suspicion is that 
my 3g connection is simply too weedy when on the move as all of this 
content returned as soon as I got back home and on the wifi.

The handset froze a couple of times today, once it left me unable to 
make a call for over 5 minutes and the second time it let me answer the 
phone but didn't let me hear the other person, then the other way round 
and only on the third time did it work. Hopefully this one will get 
identified and patched in an update.

The bluetooth partially gave up on me yesterday and today wouldn't  let 
me make voice calls either. I gave up and just used a lead instead. It 
should be noted that this is on a par with my experiences of using 
bluetooth on android, it just seems to have an attitude problem whatever 
your setup.

On the whole I love the phone and I'm looking forward to seeing the 
software mature and develop over time. Could anyone tell me is there 
somewhere I can report issues that crop up or should the phone be 
passing all the crucial info automatically?



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