[YotaPhone 3 Questions & Answers] LadTy:
The glass on my Y2 broke so I decided to try out Y3 - not impressed at all I must admit :( So much things that made Y2 the best phone ever are gone, let alone it being chinese only. The widgets on the back are gone, like, why?! Missed calls+sms+emails+notifications counter and battery indicator, plus better weather, no reason for those not to be there ffs, it breaks my heart :|

Also it feels like they threw out their designer, the Y2 was a beauty to look at from behind, back quite seamlessly transitioning into the EPD. I have no idea why Y2 is not the same in this manner. If you can't make the EPD fully black but only dark grey, at least make the plastic around matching gray. All uniformity gone. Also the 3 buttons (= o <) are kinda pointless imo, but at least, again, make it look like a part of a whole :( Now it's just a squarish brick like anything else, with the back screen not feeling like part of the design but something that was just slapped on. And the functionality (ultra limited) the same story. I don't really need the integrated mirror functionality (though it would be nice from time to time, but just a minor bonus for me). But it should really go all in on presenting you valuable information - clock, weather, notifications, news, but it totally fails there. Theres a 'step counter' though that I cant even get rid of, like, WHY :'(

Issues I hope could be addressable, not sure, please let me know if you know solutions to some of it:

- I cannot use a custom launcher? The default one is, I dont know, basic, nothing that wrong with it, but isn't there a way to switch to Apex for example? I failed to find a way to set a different one

- EPD - "MOBEST", can I for the love of god get rid of that screen?

- same story with "DISCOVER" honestly... but then I don't know how I would access 'panels setup', since it does not seem to be editable from something on the main screen (yotahub etc)

- and last, and thats a very shocking and very big one - is none of the ebook readers capable of presenting the ebooks in landscape mode? O_o I mean, holy hell, I know it's all in chinese, but I really tried clicking/toggling everything, in kindle, ireader, qqbook, jingDongReader, even that stupid mobest, and I just have no f*cking clue how to read my epub/mobi/... in landscape! I mean, it just feels impossible that such a thing would not be implemented in any of those things. I guess all are just presentation of their 'regular' non-epd versions, and rely on device orientation, but that is locked on the EPD. I-need-to-be-able-to-read-in-landscape, I'm really getting desperate here after navigating through all the chinese menus (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

With the price this thing cost me to buy+import I could have had S9 actually, which is a gem, but with my Y2 I got addicted to being able to see the clocks and weather forecast and emails+notifications without touching the phone. And sure, I liked to read some stuff on it from time to time as well. All I got with the Y3 is the clock. And it is not even good as an e-book reader since its all portrait only O_o

Oh and one more thing - even the clock f*cking lags behind, so I can't really realy on it!!

Please help me with at least some of the issues, there must be a way to make it "good enough", but as is it is unbearable :(