Well, my new Ubuntu phone is proving to be something of a challenge. But I’m thoroughly enjoying the experience.

The sparsity of apps isn’t (yet) proving to be the pain I’d anticipated. There’s an eBay app, although it defaults to the US (which is odd, since the phone is only available in the EU) and I now have Twitter up and running.

It’d be nice to have a native email application (the phone currently only has a gmail app), although this is planned in a future update. And the WordPress app only supports wordpress.com sites (I’m using my old iPhone right now, but will probably switch to my old Blackberry tablet until something else comes along).

What else? Oh, the phone would initially work in 2G, and refused to pick up a three signal, but there was a software update waiting and that only took an hour to figure out. I still don’t seem to be able to use the browser with anything other than wifi, but that’s the next thing I need to figure out.

Overally, I love the phone and the minor hassles aren’t detracting from the new experience.