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Sorry to crash the party, but i just flashed Android onto my E4.5 Ubuntu edition this weekend, following a month of sheer frustration.

While the UX concept is really nice everything else feels pre-alpha and should definitely not be sold as a commercial product yet. There's so much lacking (You want to import SIM contacts? Sorry, but maybe in a few releases.), Ubuntu Phone is just not ready for use as an everyday phone.

If you want to get this phone, expect around 5 crashes and 5 additional reboots a day (unfortunately it will also really crash while being on the phone). I'm saying this as a not too heavy user.

I really hope things improve and I can switch back in a year or so, but right now going back to Android was the best thing I could do.

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Phone updates: May - Import contacts from SIM (among other things)

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/05/29/phone-updates-may/

For a not-too-heavy user, the phone is fine as it is now. The system updates in April fixed the battery issues.

Cannot imagine what you have been doing to the phone to crash five times.

Interesting, the battery life and management was the only part where I thought it was really good. I never ever managed to drain it even on long days.

I did not do too much, Browser, GMail, Camera, Music. That's it. It crashed on unlocking quite often. I'd get a black screen and the small rotating logo would appear. After the OS was back again it needed a reboot as no app would start up again in this "recovered" state.

> You want to import SIM contacts?

In all honesty, I don't think this is very common nowadays. If you're migrating from something like a Nokia 1100, your contacts might be in your SIM, but most users are migrating from another smartphone in 2015, and smartphones don't store contacts in the SIM.

Android did it without complaining, iOS apparently does it. My SIM is still the same that I got in 2001. It's a pretty convenient location to store that stuff.

there is few of us who have contacts managed in this way...

You do understand that very few people still have a 14 year old SIM. Does that even support 3G?

To be completely honest, I was unaware the modern smartphones could save contacts to SIM rather than internal contacts db(I quickly looked at my phone and failed to find an option to save-to-SIM).

This is a very very edge case that most people will never use, so lack of support for it is quite acceptable. Mainstream features are what Ubuntu is probably targeting right now.

>You want to import SIM contacts

this feature comes with the next update

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