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Re: DistroWatch Ubuntu Phone review

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Post by lambda »

kogepathic wrote: post #19

> Over the past year and a half I have become accustomed to the idea that I get to run free applications on my phone in exchange for being shown semi-frequent ads. This tended not to bother me most of the time, except when Android apps would suddenly show me full screen videos at high volume. Really? I installed AdAway [1] on my Android phone and since then I have seen no ads. Zero. The only issue is that some legiti…

Huh. I've just never installed any ad-based applications. If there's a no-ad paid version for a buck or two I'll buy it, otherwise, I just don't use it.

Re: DistroWatch Ubuntu Phone review

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Post by mrmondo »

lake99 wrote: post #6

> About 1GB of memory is required to run the phone with its default scopes and settings, leaving us about 2GB of space for applications and other features. I did not see this coming. I was under the impression that moving away from a JVM would have lowered the memory requirements. A comparison of the two versions of Meizu Pro 5, Android and Ubuntu, would have been useful too. I am curious if the move away from the An…

Likewise, how on earth do you manage to make Linux use 1GB of RAM without running Java or some sort of large, memory optimised database?

Re: DistroWatch Ubuntu Phone review

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Post by twblalock »

> When I first started using the phone I noticed the Today scope showed temperatures in the weather forecast in Fahrenheit rather than Celsius. This can be adjusted by changing our selected language in the device's settings panel and restarting the phone.

Really? You have to restart to change the temperature units? What a joke.

Re: DistroWatch Ubuntu Phone review

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Post by legulere »

twblalock wrote: post #23

> When I first started using the phone I noticed the Today scope showed temperatures in the weather forecast in Fahrenheit rather than Celsius. This can be adjusted by changing our selected language in the device's settings panel and restarting the phone . Really? You have to restart to change the temperature units? What a joke.

Restarting is also required for iOS when changing the language.

Re: DistroWatch Ubuntu Phone review

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Post by petre »

kogepathic wrote: post #19

> Over the past year and a half I have become accustomed to the idea that I get to run free applications on my phone in exchange for being shown semi-frequent ads. This tended not to bother me most of the time, except when Android apps would suddenly show me full screen videos at high volume. Really? I installed AdAway [1] on my Android phone and since then I have seen no ads. Zero. The only issue is that some legiti…

Or you can install this via debug mode and adb push and then run install from the recovery image if you can flash one.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1916098

Re: DistroWatch Ubuntu Phone review

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Post by cnr »

Scarbutt wrote: post #5

How does distrowatch gets the "page hits" for all the distros's websites? or are those "page hits" initiated from within distrowatch? (surprised to see Mint at the top)

They are counting "one hit per IP address per day" on distribution subpages. Here is explained "DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking": https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity

Re: DistroWatch Ubuntu Phone review

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Post by twblalock »

legulere wrote: post #24
twblalock wrote: post #23

> When I first started using the phone I noticed the Today scope showed temperatures in the weather forecast in Fahrenheit rather than Celsius. This can be adjusted by changing our selected language in the device's settings panel and restarting the phone . Really? You have to restart to change the temperature units? What a joke.

Restarting is also required for iOS when changing the language.

No, it isn't. I just did it on my iPhone 6S, and it did not require a restart.

Re: DistroWatch Ubuntu Phone review

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Post by rihegher »

rtpg wrote: post #2

Surprised at how good this phone sounds! Though I am not sure I have the courage to move from Android, it does sound like Ubuntu Phone could be a decent 4th player in the market now that FFOS is DOA. I imagine you have a lot more flexibility for the software you write? Like, could I easily use Python + Tkinter to set up a quick "app" for my phone? Basically, is this phone more of a small computer with Ubuntu, or a di…

It's out of stock anyway with no plan for new ones to get sold

Re: DistroWatch Ubuntu Phone review

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Post by legulere »

twblalock wrote: post #27
legulere wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Restarting is also required for iOS when changing the language.

No, it isn't. I just did it on my iPhone 6S, and it did not require a restart.

Just checked again, it restarts all applications and everything with a GUI, but it's not a full restart.
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