Comments on: Ubisurfer Review

By: terence fanning

terence fanning — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:58:54 +0000

The ubiserver is crap. it does not live up to its promises.it leaves you frustrated and angry. please do not buy this product.and waste your money.

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 08:48:14 +0000

Had been considering buying a Ubisurfer each for myself and my daughter as I had been quite impressed with the Pocket Surfer which I bought a couple of years ago to use in the Maldives (it worked brilliantly there!) However, having read all the reviews I have changed my mind and consider myself lucky that I wasn’t talked into buying them. So thankyou all you honest users, you have saved me some hard earned money!

By: barry kilgariff

barry kilgariff — Sun, 30 May 2010 21:22:05 +0000

both e mailed and wrote to datawind
ignored on both counts
paid for extra subscription and insurance
on new years eve but received no
acknowledgment cannot set correct time either
painful to use most of the time would not recommend

By: Martin Crump

Martin Crump — Mon, 24 May 2010 15:04:35 +0000

I ordered my Ubisurfer on the 20th April im still waiting for it to arrive (now 24 th May). Apparently the delay is caused by the ash cloud, (Yeah Right). Not bad considering when i ordered it i was told 10 days. Ah well no point in complaining to Datawind they never answer there emails.

By: Gwen

Gwen — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:53:42 +0000

thought this looked brilliant on the tv demo so i ordered 2 one for me and one for him activated one and went through registration but to get on the internet after that was hopeless also wi fi was hopeless it would not pick up my wireless router after a phone call to customer services they were very helpfull but they couldnt get it to work either so they phoned me back 6 hrs later and still couldnt get it to work now they going to phone me tomorrow if it still doesnt work i will send them both back
thought this was really good on tv but now very dissapointed

By: trish432

trish432 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:40:40 +0000

Must say i connected to my wireless network easily enough, once I realised that you need to click the little arrow to choose the correct key encryption.

By: trish432

trish432 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:32:35 +0000

The most frustrating thing is, it will not save added favourites in ubisurfer mode, although the firefox browser in wi-fi mode does save the bookmarks.
I am just trying to sort this one out for a friend, personally I wouldn`t have one of these given to me.
It`s so slow I feel like throwing it, if it was mine I probably would.

By: Peter NUnn

Peter NUnn — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:34:21 +0000

I had a Pocket Surfer 2, which was light and very good for picking up e-mails on the train from London to Portsmouth, a trip that I do a few days each week. This instrument lost most of its paint and other bits fell off too. I was offered the upgraded version at a reasonable price, but it never appeared. Finally I was offered Ubisurfer for £99. It looked good and felt good in the hand (but weighs 750g). Everything that has been said about Ubisurfer on the downside is true for me too. I finally decided that I would use it for reading/editing material on a flashstick while on the train – but it won’t read my flashsticks. So I am left with it only reading e-mails during my journey, which the Pocket Surfer 2 did anyway. A good looking product that seems incapable of doing what it says on the tin. I really want to like this product, but the Ubisurfer makes it really hard for a user to like very much about its performance.

By: Graham

Graham — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:38:20 +0000

I actually quite like my Ubisurfer, but not as a machine for surfing the web…

As others report, it’s very slow. It’s fine for checking your email, and good that it can connect pretty much anywhere, but it’s far too slow for browsing.

What the machine works really well for though is light word processing and viewing pdfs. The three things that really work for it here are (a) the keyboard is very good for a machine this size, (b) it’s very light and portable, and (c) the screen is bright and legible.

By: Trudy Bond

Trudy Bond — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:56:34 +0000

I’ve just bought one of these and when I try to use it on my wi-fi I cannot load any pages. it takes quite a while to connect but does connect first time most times. I get the message ‘page load error’, dont know if this if my wi-fi connection as it worked with the inbuilt connection but where I live i do net a very good vodaphone signal, this is extremely frustating as i would like to use at home not just out and about.
Haven’t contacted Datawind yet but will probably do so if this happens with other wifi areas.