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Jolla vs Bq Aquarius Ubuntu phone [off-topic]

asked 2015-04-01 20:55:27 +0200

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updated 2015-04-01 21:21:28 +0200

I got my Bq Aquarius Ubuntu phone. The Ubuntu Touch gestures felt almost immediately natural just like in Nokia N9. After using Jolla for over a year I still didn't quite get it. All the small things I dislike on Jolla are fixed in Ubuntu Touch, for example a cool pull-down notification area / quick settings system and the "swipe to switcher" gesture like it was in Nokia N9. No peeks, just a pleasant animation that feels right. For some reason Ubuntu Touch is also much easier to operate single-handed. The current iteration of Sailfish is a bit more robust to be honest, but Ubuntu phone will be my primary device now and in the future. It's surprisingly good. My phone is now actually running the same OS (Ubuntu 14.10) as my desktop and that's awesome.

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first of all ubuntu, bb10, sailfish are operating systems that move huge step for me will be great systems if still polishing and three are only based on gestures and swipes, now three the most advansed is bb10 your last 10.3.1 upgrade and integration of bb blend is wonderful, Sailfish continues after the version 2.0 shown in mwc 2015 made it clear I go much but must have points of attachment with 1.0 interface eg multitasking was more interactive than the version 2.0 (added small buttons on the window), finally this ubuntu that while I walk to steps as well huge most ball is made with scopes also use more resources (cores, ram, etc) need to optimize more the system so that it can run smoothly with a dual core processor and maximum a four cores but the experience is nice but eye Cannonical must put attention since many users balls with scopes are made (for me should only exist these default, the scope of application, the scope of social networks with updates (facebook, twitter), the scope of news (newspapers and magazines), the scope Videos (gallery of the phone, youtube (your subscriptions with the latest uploaded), dalimotion, vimeo and netflix), the musical scope, last played songs of the phone, also soundcloud, dezzer and spotify, the last scope photo (gallery, Flyckr, pinterest and stuff).

There are many people who think putting a scope eg a web page as Cnet (it shows all the information and is not it just shows you some of the information and if you want to have it complete information you need to open the browser or application) then to have that scope, that's when he sees the scopes as something useless, so if Cannonical lse put the batteries and only leaves the aforementioned escopes would be a great forward motion for example is music with your last songs added to the player or the heard last and apart if you soundcloud, spotify or dezeer show you the lists you've created and last added by your favorite artists and be able to play from there so if something interesting but first Cannonical should regulate scopes to avoid anything can be a scope

Now if we go by the UI there is nothing more beautiful than Sailfish, also the optimization of the system sailfish is better than ubuntu and bb10.

sailfish is from my point of more intuitive, beautiful and fast view (an example is close windows with a single swipe from top to low ubuntu you need at least two movements)

Jose101192 ( 2015-04-01 23:07:16 +0200 )edit
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Is this from Google Translate or something? I didn't understand much.

SuperPhone ( 2015-04-02 00:49:42 +0200 )edit
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I really do not understand why the OP got voted down for sharing his/her experience and opinion regarding another somehow related OS. There is nothing wrong with looking beyond one's own nose regardless if it's - as in this case - about a concurring OS. Here's my vote up.

moosiqpipl ( 2015-04-02 00:51:16 +0200 )edit
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"My phone is now actually running the same OS (Ubuntu 14.10) as my desktop and that's awesome." — I don't see why this is awesome. Afaik Windows is trying to do the same and having the same software on a variety of different devices. Why? I really don't understand. IMHO, devices are different and so should software be different respectively. I don't want touch-oriented UI on my desktop, and neither do I want terminals on my phone.

If you're a fanboy of operating system XYZ, then of course this all makes sort of sense.

Okw ( 2015-04-02 10:57:10 +0200 )edit
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I don't want touch-oriented UI on my desktop either. It's more about the base system. You can e.g. develop your application natively on your desktop and be pretty sure that it will work also on the phone and even the same libraries you are using are there. Of course this is not always the case.

SuperPhone ( 2015-04-02 13:16:58 +0200 )edit

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answered 2015-07-21 19:50:56 +0200

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Hi,

since this lunch I'm struggling setting up an Ubuntu phone aquaris 4.5. No ubuntu generic email client (only gmail and other main providers). No software for syncing with exchange server. Ubuntu thinks that they do not exists at all, apparently.

No serious caledar, again syncable with generic calDAV (? surprising, maybe I'm missing something) or Exchange Server. The same for contacts.

Ubuntu Phone looks more like a (not so expensive) toy than a real working horse for connectivity.

Only good point in Ubuntu phone, for me: dual SIM. Sometimes / for some people really necessary

Regards

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Why do you want to use some closed NSA crap by Microsoft? Where is MS Office for Linux? Microsoft thinks that Linux doesn't exist at all, apparently.

SuperPhone ( 2015-07-22 11:04:46 +0200 )edit
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answered 2015-07-21 20:22:49 +0200

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updated 2015-07-21 20:23:35 +0200

.... maybe informative to you, if you Google-translate it ;)

http://www.zeit.de/digital/mobil/2015-07/meizu-mx4-ubuntu-phone-test

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...I can read german as native (and italian, french, english and finnish) ;) THX a lot

gfwp ( 2015-07-21 20:27:16 +0200 )edit

... und dazu noch das sterbende Upstart anstelle von Systemd (aber doch Systemd gemischt für einige Anwendungen)... No comment.

gfwp ( 2015-07-21 20:39:48 +0200 )edit

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