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What has been some hurdles you've run into using this phone?

• luxpir 10y ago
  - No email notifications - a blessing and a curse. The Dekko client is/was third party, but being the best available has become the de facto default (not a bad name for a band...). - Inability to make use of the package repos. Mentioned this above - I only want some CLI apps and still may do it, I just have to find out if when I enable r+w mode that I can subsequently disable it when mutt/irssi/newsbeuter etc. are installed. Enabling it disables OTA updates, you see, which have proven massively useful. The browser has gone from awkward to extremely usable via the updates, convergence support has been added, 100s/1000s of bugs fixed - they are a must-have on a phone like this. - Being Ubuntu, they had "agreements" in place with a few third-party providers that I quickly disabled on setting up. The always-on stuff might be convenient for some, but it's not for me. - My particular model of phone, the BQ Aquaris 4.5, struggles with location data, usually placing me at the ISPs location for Wikipedia nearest article suggestions, etc. It does work for the uNav mapping app just fine, however. Upsides: I can (and have) reported bugs and chatted to devs on IRC and the central mailing list. Downsides: There aren't many devs knocking around!