Geeks’Phone Blog

Geeksphone One in red

Hi to everyone! I’m sorry for not posting during eastern hollidays, but I needed some vacations

We are welcome with great news! Geeksphone has reached an agreement with Pepephone, a spanish virtual mobile operator. This agreement consist in a special prices for those users that have a Geeksphone One and belong to Pepephone, or that will por to this operator.

The special price is a data price of 7€ per month, up to a traffic of 300 MB per month. The three first months are free. The data tarification is not done in blocks (it’s done by Kb), if you use this 300Mb, the following 100Mb (and so on) will cost 3€ (0,03€ each extra MB).

The voice price for this offer is for calls at any time and at any spanish phone (fixed or mobile), at 0,05€/minute + 0,15€ the establishment of the call. You can keep this voice price even if after the three first months of free data you don’t want the data connection. This offer is only for contract fares, not for pre-paid sims. However, this contract have no minimum fee nor permanence contract

Yo can see this forum post and this other for more information, or take a look to the web of Pepephone. If you don’t have a One (yet), you can buy one in the shop of geeksphone, or in pepephone web.

Greetings to all!

New contributor to the blog!

Hi everybody! This is my first post in Geeksphone official blog. First of all, I would like to introduce myself, in an unofficial way. My name is Aitor, and I am a user of a Geeksphone One since late January. I participate in the forum with the user AitorTheRed (I am red-haired). I studied Telecommunication Engineering, and I have always been fascinated by technology and gadgets. Geeksphone One  is my first Android phone, although I had already mess a bit with the Android SDK.

Once finished with the presentations, we continue with the post. The idea is to write one or two weekly post about news of the android world, and the company’s own news. The first of this news, as all those who navigate the forum knows, is about the online shop. The shop has been update recently, improving the usability and the interface. We have been told that soon there will be different accesories on sale, such as the replacement bateries that a lot of users have been asking for. They are also working hard to support the spanish language in the shop (some problems with the multi-lingual patch), so that Spanish users can use the shop in their own language. What do you think of it? Do you like it? You can leave your impressions in the comments or in the forum in this  thread.

Greetings and see you in the next post!

Money !!!!

I just wanted to share some thoughts and feelings with all of you.

Geeks’Phone is a young company, we started to work on our initial project less than a year ago and the company was established just some months ago.We have to admit that since everything started we have made different types of management errors derived from our lack of experience but also due to our innovative business philosophy and to the small size of the company.

Logistics and shipments

Just to remind you..

If you have any problems with the payment and/or shipment (including changes in the address) here is your direct contact:

Geeks’Phone Logistics

logistics@geeksphone.com

(+34) 914 475 267

Pics taken with the One

Hi all,

As you have requested, here are some pics taken with the camera of the One. Please note these were taken with stock settings (so JPEG compression quality is set to 80%)

ORIGINALS:

Building: http://i45.tinypic.com/2mzif52.jpg

Model Car: http://i48.tinypic.com/24xmbtv.jpg

Sunset: http://i48.tinypic.com/vr3r6w.jpg

AFTER NOISEWARE 1-CLICK CORRECTION:

Building: http://i48.tinypic.com/4rte0j.jpg

Model Car: http://i47.tinypic.com/11klijd.jpg

Sunset: http://i45.tinypic.com/xn69dt.jpg

Best regards!

GeeksPhoners back online!

Hey everyone,

As you know, we have suffered some problems with our hosting as the forum has been inactive for 48 hours. While there has been some latency issues, the rest of our services including e-mail and online store have been working as usual.

The issue was caused because we were moved to a new server cluster by our hosting provider, MediaTemple. We don’t know yet the exact issue, but the huge delay was because of DNS propagation (it usually takes 24h to 48h).

We will be upgrading our service (which is already top-grade) to a premium dedicated server to avoid further issues and thus be able to provide the excellent service you deserve.

Thank you very much for your time and support.

PS: Don’t worry! The forum has been offline but we have been 24h (even being national holidays in Spain) both via e-mail and blog with you as always

GeekPhoners in maintenance

Hello, the forum GeekPhoners will be in maintenance for few hours.

Geeks’Phone Online Shop opening

Hi to everyone,

We have to admit that starting Geeks’Phone shop has been harsh for everyone, but since all problems have been caused by an extraordinary and unexpected demand for the “ONE”, we will not complain about it. =)

Things are already getting better, as the shop now charges the right amount, concerning taxes and shipping, customers sign-in correctly, and we are going to implement a direct payment option to be added to the existing Paypal option. Regarding logistics, everything is fine, as well, and it is all prepared in order to start delivering all handsets promptly.

All the people who made their purchase during the initial days, after the shop’s opening on December the 9th, are already taken care of. If you have any question or remark related to your purchase status contact us, taking into consideration that it is not possible to transfer their account to the new shopping system.

During the initial sales days, there was an unfortunate amount of payment errors related to taxes and shipping ; it was not our fault but Paypal’s, which blocked our account due to an invoicing excess for such a new company.

In order to solve these problems, we have added an item in our online shop, which represents the difference between what you paid and what you should have paid for a correct invoice. Note that you paid a smaller quantity, and never higher, so the error, if there is any, is always to your advantage.

Anyway, we will contact every customer to clarify all aspects.

Furthermore, we have noticed in the forums, that there was some concern regarding delivery date, as some customers wanted to change their shipping adress in case of delay. To avoid any problem we will send a confirmation e-mail, so that you could change your shipping information if it is necessary.

Thanks a lot, and sorry for the inconvenience. If your order went well (which is in most cases), you don’t need to worry about all of this.

Many Thanks……

GeeksPhone “ONE” Unboxing

In defense of the Fundamental Rights in the Internet

Given the inclusion in the Draft Law on Sustainable economy of legislative changes affecting the free exercise of freedom of expression, information and the right of access to culture through the Internet, journalists, bloggers, users, professionals and developers Internet express our firm opposition to the project, and declare that:

1. The copyright can not be above the fundamental rights of citizens, including the right to privacy, security, the presumption of innocence, to effective judicial protection and freedom of expression.
2. The suspension of fundamental rights is and must remain the exclusive competence of the judiciary. Not a closure without a sentence. This blueprint, contrary to the provisions of Article 20.5 of the Constitution, put in the hands of a non-judicial body, a body under the Ministry of Culture, the power to prevent Spanish citizens access to any website.
3. The new legislation will create legal uncertainty around the Spanish technology sector, damaging one of the few areas of development and future of our economy, hindering the creation of business by introducing barriers to competition and slowing its international expansion.
4. The new proposed legislation threatens to hinder new creators and cultural creation. With the Internet and the successive technological advances has dramatically democratized the creation and issuance of all types of content that no longer come predominantly from traditional cultural industries, but from many different sources.
5. The authors, like all workers are entitled to live on his work with new creative ideas, business models and activities associated with their creations. Trying to hold with legislative changes to an outdated industry that can adapt to this new environment is neither fair nor realistic. If your business model is based on the control of the copies of the works and the Internet is not possible without violating fundamental rights, they should find another model.
6. We believe that cultural industries need to survive modern alternatives, effective, credible and affordable to suit new social uses, rather than limitations so disproportionate as to be ineffective in that they are pursuing.
7. Internet should function freely and without political interference sponsored by groups that seek to perpetuate outdated business models and make it impossible that human knowledge remains free.
8. We urge the Government to guarantee by law the net neutrality in Spain, before any pressure that may occur as a framework for developing a realistic and sustainable economy for the future.
9. We propose a real reform of intellectual property rights aimed at its target of returning to the knowledge society, promote the public domain and limit abuses of the managing bodies.
10. In a democracy the laws and their amendments should be adopted after due debate and having consulted all parties involved. It is unacceptable that legislative changes are made that affect fundamental rights in a non-organic law and deals with another matter.