The Meizu MX and current Ubuntu Phone image has a battery read bug, GPS fails under wifi, and uninstalling scopes leads to a runaway process (phone gets hot). These bugs are known, but be aware.

In all, I would say this is an interesting OS and if one largely uses it for phoning, sms, as a camera, reading news, viewing youtube etc, then it serves. The lack of whatsapp etc will be a major problem for common usage (and yes, I know the arguments against such apps!) as the wider world uses them.

Polished? No. Rather bare-bones OS at present with some frustrating lack of options in some of the services and apps. As said by others, very reliant on web-apps at present.

Scopes: I think the idea is fine, even good but it is a bit laborious paging between them to get at say, the 2nd last scope to the right in a list of 6/7. I think this is a major design flaw (but addressable?).

There is a choppiness about the interface, that is absolutely not evident on iOS devices. Some bugs are filed against these issues. What is interesting is that such comments have existed since Nexus 4 days and that this occurs on the Meizu device (a cpu "beast" in comparison) says something about the software, methinks.

Terminating apps (with one hand): a swipe from right produces a stacked view of each active screen, including the "home" screen (the one with scopes). Apps get terminated by upwards flicking of the relevant page. Three issues for now: 1) it is not always quickly evident which is the home screen and one can needlessly flick at it (not being killable it bounces back down; 2) it is sometimes awkward to "get a grip" on a screen to do the flick (they then shift left/right in the scrolling action) and 3) there is no way to kill the active app in one gesture - you have to swipe right, re-position the thumb (whatever digit) and then flick upwards and this is a tad irritating.

Using both hands this works way better: you swipe from right pushes the screen towards the left thumb waiting to flick it up.

Finally (for now) - looking at the launchpad bugs for Ubuntu Touch, and what gets fixed, when - it occurs to me that Canonical perhaps lacks the muscle to fight the good fight against other Phone/Tablet OSs. This impression is reinforced when one considers the overall state of Ubuntu Phone after quite a few years of work and publicity.

Prediction: will fail to gain traction, unless in markets where state actors support non-US phone/tablet software. And Jolla may have their foot in that door ahead of Canonical?

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