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Post by morganvachon »

lucb1e wrote: post #203
morganvachon wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In 5 years 3g really will be too slow for many applications You answered your own question. It's progress, and the sooner people around the world adopt 4G, the sooner it becomes the standard, just like 3G before it.

> You answered your own question. But in 5 years, in all reasonableness, you'd have a new phone. Having no lte on this one doesn't change much. That's what I meant to say.

You're right, and my Nexus 4 and Lumia 521 are getting along just fine without LTE as well, and will continue to for the next 1-2 years I hope to get out of them. It will be at least another 10-15 years before 3G is turned off in favor of whatever the baseline is then (hell, we still have 2G which by all accounts should be dead by now).

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Post by vram22 »

untog wrote: post #174
IkmoIkmo wrote: post #123

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The specs on that Xiaomi are really nice value. I'd been looking at the 2nd gen Moto E or G for my parents, but the Xiaomi beats it, although at a higher cost. It just amazes me how cheap tech has become. The other day I was looking through the Microsoft Store, saw a $90 ish tablet that had various discounts at times bringing it down to an absolutely ridiculous $60-70 range. I checked out some reviews and they were g…

Just looked it up. Currently $79, with a $25 Windows Store voucher and $69-worth of Office 365. Extremely tempted but I really need to stop buying random tablet-y devices I'll never use.

Hehe, that really is a temptation. I wish there was one all-purpose device (maybe modular, like the earlier Modu phone [1] and now Google's Project Ara (still to come).

[1] Read about Modu in TechCrunch some years ago. An Israeli startup backed by Yossi Vardi, IIRC. Not sure what happened to it. But the idea seemed promising.

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Post by cwayne »

bikamonki wrote: post #236

Does it run Whatsapp? No? What is this, a cellphone? Oh, cool, but we stopped using cellphones a while back, we now use portable computers the size of a cellphone which run widely adopted social apps. It's for a niche market you say? Oh, cool. Sarcasm aside: I am still waiting for an official FFOS Whatsapp version, meanwhile I am using my ZTE Open as a PC+camera+GCM dongle to run some fun hacks, kindda like a Tessel…

WhatsApp actively stops people from making apps for new platforms, so keep on waiting for that FFOS version

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Post by davexunit »

talideon wrote: post #233
davexunit wrote: post #167

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Telegram is a proprietary network service, which means that there is no reason to believe that it is secure.

The protocol is published, and the client is open source, but the protocol has a whole bunch of design issues, and that's the real problem with Telegram.

But the server isn't free software, so it's untrustable, even if the protocol didn't have known design issues.

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Post by mahyarm »

vram22 wrote: post #239
mahyarm wrote: post #224

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So I got one of those stream 7 tablets. I like it when I use it as a device, but windows 8 isn't quite ready for a tablet os I feel like. I was wanting a keyboard & trackpad pretty quickly. By adding a keyboard case, I might as well use a netbook anyway at this weight profile. Also tapping on some things can be awkward. Also the battery dies on you quickly on idle, and it doesn't charge that easily through usb, you n…

> I might as well use a netbook anyway Are netbooks still being produced in mass scale? I was considering buying a netbook recently, as a 2nd lighter machine than my laptop, so that I can take it when I go out to nearby places like for shops / malls, and use short spells of free time outside to do some work (at least work that's light on CPU/RAM resources, like Python programming, or even email or technical topic bro…

By netbook I meant more those really cheap "11 laptops that cost about $200 and quickly get performance issues in a year. The HP stream 11 is one example. Or a chromebook.

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Post by andrepd »

IkmoIkmo wrote: post #123
leaveyou wrote: post #38

I got burned once with a windows phone Omnia 7 as an early adopter and it was beyond useless (lack of apps/configurability) so I will definitely not rush again on unproven phones despite my interest in Ubuntu. Also the price/specs on this phone is horrible compared to Xiaomi Note 4G (190euro) which I own and can recommend to anyone. I hope Ubuntu phone catches on though. Competition is good.

The specs on that Xiaomi are really nice value. I'd been looking at the 2nd gen Moto E or G for my parents, but the Xiaomi beats it, although at a higher cost. It just amazes me how cheap tech has become. The other day I was looking through the Microsoft Store, saw a $90 ish tablet that had various discounts at times bringing it down to an absolutely ridiculous $60-70 range. I checked out some reviews and they were g…

Wasn't personal computing ubiquitous for two decades now?

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Post by ezequiel-garzon »

AlphaGeekZulu wrote: post #116

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…

Can you use apt-get install? Thanks!

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Post by teekert »

I just set up an Ubuntu 14.04 server on Digital Ocean. One "apt-get install mail-stack-delivery", and one edited line in /etc/postfix/master.cf later (just to get 587 submission working) and I have my own mail server including STARTTLS on smtp and imap. Made me wonder, will we see sync options on Ubuntu Phone to sync mail/calendar/own-cloud with one (SSH) account? Seems to me the possibilities are endless and very exciting. Please stay true to FOSS principles, resist the temptations, give the (mobile) web back to the people!
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