Hello, I'm a newbie here...not my usual sort of forum/message board, I found you because I was looking for some help re the Ubisurfer.
My O/H bought this for my birthday, ( I could retire or claim my bus pass,) but I'm not exactly a numptie, what I wanted was mobile internet & email , mainly for things like FaceAche & bbc message boards, and my own (1) email and one work email account..I was thrilled with this little baby that looked too little to leave its mummy.
However, it is not what it seems..we have WiFi in the house and Ubi could not find it, from the manufacturers website I found out there was a patch that could be downloaded, but only via Firefox, Ubi 'IceWeasle' didn't work, so I down loaded the patch onto a usb Memory stick, so far so good until the battery went suddenly flat..recharged it and the dang thing has lost its memory, no patch, no 'bookmarks', no emails.... nada... silch...
We went back to Maplins, the 'boys' did not really have a clue, and gave me a new one in exchange... the patch will not download, the 21/08/09 patch is not working, & the 07/08/09 patch seems to have disappeared.
There seems to be a real problem, that I do not understand, I worked my way through the instruction book today, and the examples of certain pages do not correlate with this thing, the date & time cannot be set, it defaults to 03/04/03 , and if I go into FaceAche etc the ruddy thing will not let me use the text boxes, so I cannot post messages....the WHOLE POINT of it,
The vodaphone thing works but is slow, so one hours use per day is a bit unrealistic IMHO.
I'm now at work until Wednesday, then I will ring the help line, and see what they can do, so if any of you wish to buy this, wait &/or read the Maplin* review.
In the meantime can any of you recommend a small Surfer gizmo that works.
Sorry to be so long winded on my first post.
*I'm Linda