The keyboard is tiny and rattly and we found it uncomfortable to type on. Sitting idle at the desktop, the UbiSurfer lasted just over four hours before giving up the ghost.īut again, we’re not convinced by the rest of the design. Battery life isn’t too bad either, considering the tiny size of the battery. ![]() ![]() You get two USB sockets on the right-hand edge, an SD card slot on the left, an Ethernet port and even 802.11bg Wi-Fi. There are elements of the physical design that are appealing: it’s compact and light (weighing a mere 700g), the soft-touch finish to the chassis means it feels nice to hold, and it boasts a surprising range of connectivity. The UbiSurfer didn’t perform at all well with the Acid3 standards test, failing to render it anything like accurately, and it doesn’t support Flash content either. This wouldn’t be such a problem if its 7in 800 x 480 screen didn’t feel so small, but pages didn’t often fit widthways and scrolling and panning to get to offscreen elements quickly became tiresome. We found the BBC website hoved into view in under 20 seconds, for example, but navigating around doesn’t feel responsive at all. ![]() Web pages do initially load up quickly, with Datawind’s proxy servers compressing bandwidth-hungry elements such as graphics to speed things along.
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