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Re: Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition

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I bought mine on amazon in France (sold by some other company but shipped by amazon).

Thanks for the lead. It appears also on Amazon Spain at just 160€. Are you happy with it ?

yes. It was worth every euro. Very fluid due to 2Gb RAM and good processor, nice screen and battery up to 3 days with my normal/light usage.

Re: Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition

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I bought mine on amazon in France (sold by some other company but shipped by amazon).

Did you buy a case for it there too? Thanks for the info.

I was not able to buy the case I wanted. They were not shipping in France or something like that..

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I think the reason is that they want separate pages by countries, not by languages. For instance, they have three different pages in Spanish (Spain, Mexico, Uruguay).

Things like that always bug me. What if I live in Spain and only speak English. What if I live in a Catalan region and want Catalan? What if I live in GB and want to read it in Spanish as it's my first language? With the world being as global as it is and people readily moving around, geographic location does not equal language preference. Ideally the site would have geographic specific sections but allow all languag…

What gets me is Amazon. I'd love to be able to see the Germany (country) site in English. Right now trying to return a tablet that went bad, and google trans is of limited help.

Re: Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition

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Things like that always bug me. What if I live in Spain and only speak English. What if I live in a Catalan region and want Catalan? What if I live in GB and want to read it in Spanish as it's my first language? With the world being as global as it is and people readily moving around, geographic location does not equal language preference. Ideally the site would have geographic specific sections but allow all languag…

What gets me is Amazon. I'd love to be able to see the Germany (country) site in English. Right now trying to return a tablet that went bad, and google trans is of limited help.

Yeah, but at least they let you do cross-country purchases. I live in the US and send my son in Europe gifts from the DE and FR Amazon sites. Lucky for me I know enough of the languages to muddle through the process. :)

Other companies are MUCH worse. Apple and Google being good examples. Try either being in the US or having a US credit card and purchasing in the EU. Nightmare!

Re: Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition

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I'm Looking forward to get a new Phone. I am however undecided on Firefox OS and Ubuntu OS. Leaning towards Ubuntu but this device looks like a first-gen smart phone... once you see the bezel you can not unsee it!

Re: Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition

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Things like that always bug me. What if I live in Spain and only speak English. What if I live in a Catalan region and want Catalan? What if I live in GB and want to read it in Spanish as it's my first language? With the world being as global as it is and people readily moving around, geographic location does not equal language preference. Ideally the site would have geographic specific sections but allow all languag…

It would be quite a bit of work, to attend a very limited use case. Every Catalan (or Galician, Valencian, Basque) speaks Spanish, as do the vast majority of the expats I know (and I'm one myself). You can still access the specific site of the language you are interested in. Or, in the worst case, use Google translate.

The point being, location != language.

I've been doing eCommerce for a long time now and the number of site that realize this is shockingly limited.

With a few exceptions, the translations you are using for a country website's language are possible to use for any country where a visitor wants to use the language. Exceptions include things like country specific product features and such. Those kinds of things would need a little though.

The data is all there and the tech is all there. It's just a desire or realization that is missing.

Re: Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition

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I have this phone since around 20th of March and like it really very much. The Terminal app is hilarious. I was pleased to find much more stuff in the Ubuntu store than expected. Telephony is perfect. The one thing I do not like is the runtime of the battery. 44 hours was the absolute maximum I had this phone running before it went black (just turning it on, entering the SIM-PIN, having Bluetooth, GPS and WiFi turned…

I think it's typical for a good smartphone to have to load it every day. I recharge my S4 at night and then still have to boost it up at work. Mobile data is a power hog.

I've noticed the Moto G can typically go 36-48 hours (or more?) without a charge (depending on how light your use is).

Sometimes I come in and crash without putting it on the charger and realize what I've done the next morning. When that happens, I don't have to worry about immediately charging it even then; usually it still can make it to the end of that day (business hours) without being on a charger. This happens around once a week or so, maybe more sometimes.

I'm on my second Moto G, and this has been true for both, so it's not a one-off thing.

Re: Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition

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Too bad, LTE 4G not supported :(

Honest question here: what does anyone need 4g for? On HSPA+ (H+) my connection is fast enough for any purpose besides downloading movies, and it's not like I've got unlimited data. Even 3g's theoretical speed is great if they could get that to work for a change. I have 4g on a company laptop and the speed is better than many places' WiFi, but I have yet to find an excuse to use it ( someone has to pay that data bill…

In my city the 3G is incredibly slow. I need 4G to be able to stream music.
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