[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone issues not good for Ubuntu reputation

[Gareth France]

Buying this phone is a big leap of faith, the hardware is pretty 
immaterial and we trust that the software will be developed and taken 
seriously enough to become fully featured in time. I think it's an 
amazing start.

Having said that I've had it since about 2pm and I've broken it already! 
Looking at the scopes there is a star icon at the top right, it took 
several clicks before I realised it was removing my scope screens 
(nearby, weather etc). I don't have the manual with me so does anyone 
know how to put them back?

The bluetooth connection to my car stereo seems to be irratic so far but 
I'll keep an eye on that and just now the phone froze when I tried to 
answer it and it took over 60 seconds before it would let me unlock to 
call them back! Then I must have had about 20 failed calls before it 
would actually make the call. Teething problems I suppose. I'm going to 
do the updates now, maybe that will sort it.

On 23/03/15 17:33, Alan Bell wrote:
> It is a bit of an odd launch, but I have fairly low expectations. We
> were in the first batch but don't have handsets yet, probably confused
> them by ordering two rather than one so they will have to think about
> how to package it. I am trying hard not to compare it with any kind of
> Apple launch and I have never really observed any android device launch,
> I just go to the shop and buy one if I want one. I think we just don't
> see distance selling product launches and our expectations are formed by
> Apple stuff and Amazon pre-orders for books and DVDs where the order
> turns up in the post on the launch date. If you think of it as a month
> of occasional pre-orders for an launch date of today(ish) then it
> suddenly seems massively more reasonable - they just called what was
> actually the start of pre-orders the "launch date".
>
> I think the problem for me is that whilst I had very low expectations
> around logistics, I had higher expectations of what I can do on the
> platform with web apps. The web app API documentation has been pulled
> (API and Cookbook links on
> https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/web/ubuntu-webapps-guide/) and that
> whole chunk of platform integration functionality is deprecated/missing
> for remote web apps and reserved for locally installed HTML5
> applications, which wasn't really what I was expecting so I am trying to
> drag my expectations down to the new reality.
>
> Alan.
>
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