I'm one of the people who does Android at Google. For those out there
who already use some combination of gmail and Google calendar ("those"
is a big number), when you give the phone your login, it goes and
automatically sets up your email and calendar and contacts on the
phone, and then makes sure they automatically stay in sync. It's
really slick and handy, and the gmail program that runs on Android is
very smooth & snappy.
There's also a regular ordinary mail client that will talk to various
kinds of mail servers including the ones most people have "at work".
But if you hate Google and/or have no intention of using any of that
stuff, you might be better off with something other than Android -Tim
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Paul, like you I also have an Android (Google's OS for smartphones) based
> cell phone. It seems to me that you have confused it a little. When I got
> the phone (with the number of the local provider, obviously) and fired it up
> for the first time, I was asked to give my GMail account to "initialize" the
> phone or "connect it to the cloud" or whatever would be the term. Android
> phones seem to be unable to operate without a GMail account stored somewhere
> deep inside them.
>
> What I am trying to say is that my (local) cell phone number is a part of
> contract between me and the respective operator. Google is no part of it.
> Even if I were to take the Google Nexus phone, I would think that the same
> reasoning would have applied.
>
> Boris
>
>
> On 1/13/2011 1:58 PM, paul stenquist wrote:
>>
>> I think it has to do with gmail's role as an app for smart phones. I
>> had to set up a gmail account when I bought an android phone from
>> Verizon. Didn't bother me in the least. Don't use the address, but it
>> certainly didn't make me angry. There are lots of weird things going
>> on in the world of interconnectivity as the players stake out their
>> territory. If it doesn't affect me personally, I don't give a damn.
>> Paul
>
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