Good to know, Tim. Where can I find the Google calendar on the web? Can I synch my android phone with that on a Mac? I notice some of the android file transfer options won't work with a Mac, which is unfortunate. But I do like the Android options. I am using their mail client for my comcast mail, and it works great.
Paul On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:18 PM, Tim Bray wrote: > 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 <bori...@gmail.com> 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 >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.