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Comment on Ubisurfer Review 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.

Comment on Ubisurfer Review 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.

Comment on Ubisurfer Review 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.

Comment on Ubisurfer Review 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.

Comment on Ubisurfer Review 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.

Comment on Ubisurfer Review by Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:53:27 +0000

Glad to see I not only one having problems i was starting to think I was stupid. Got my unit yesterday, very kind present from my dad. But I have no sound, and when trying to save/find/delete documents, which is really why I got it, I cant do it. Spoke to Support people but they were not much help. and now the whole thing has just died on me.

Hope I can get used to it, as I think it is too late to send back for refund, he brought from Ideal World before christmas.

Comment on Scottish Granny designs a new range of footwear… by Karen @ If I Could Escape

Karen @ If I Could Escape — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:30:55 +0000

Grannies are so clever aren’t they?

Comment on Scottish Granny designs a new range of footwear… by Working Mum

Working Mum — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:08:44 +0000

Clever granny! We made a sort of sledge from a sturdy plastic sheet – daughter sat on it holding both sides whilst husband dragged her around using the bottom edge – great fun!

Comment on Scottish Granny designs a new range of footwear… by Experimental Mum

Experimental Mum — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:48:40 +0000

Thank you! Love your photo too!

Comment on Scottish Granny designs a new range of footwear… by Crystal Jigsaw

Crystal Jigsaw — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:35:38 +0000

You have a very clever mum!! What a lovely photograph.

I have posted my favourite photo on my blog, as per your tag xx