Re: [H] Android phone

[Joshua MacCraw]

Not to mention it's that specific brands experience because there are so
many flavors of Android. Funny I expected to see apple not windows as the
claimed superior monolithic experience.

You need another app to answer & make calls? Isn't that built-in and what's
wrong with it that you're missing calls to point if searching for apps?

Call blocking is not a network feature like landlines, so totally at the
mercy of contacts & dialer apps. Some Android I have it, others I have
created single contact and dump all DND there.

On Aug 21, 2016 1:51 PM, "Greg Sevart"  wrote:

And Hiya can prevent known-spam numbers from even ringing.

I don't think it's fair to say Android is a POS just because you're not
familiar with it. It's not perfect--none of them are. It's all about what
you're used to. My brother uses WP, and I could make the same comments
about it being a POS, but the reality is that I just am not familiar with
it.

-Original Message-
From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf
Of Richard Quilhot
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2016 3:24 PM
To: hardware 
Subject: Re: [H] Android phone

Not sure about the Moto, but my Samgung & LG: select call in history,
select menu setting 3 vertical dots top right corner, add to reject list.

Rick Q
quilh...@gmail.com


On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Winterlight 
wrote:

> I am forced to use a Android phone for my business phone Moto G 2
> because of the app support. I don't have a problem with the hardware
> but I dislike the OS. Everything is a learning curve. My personal
> phone is a Windows 10 phone which I love, and I have never had to look
> up anything. With this Android phone even something as simple as
> answering the phone was a learning curve hell, there are a dozen
> apps just to help you answer the phone, and a google search proved I
> wasn't alone in missing one call after another.
>
> So now I am trying to find a simple way to block spammers. Windows
> phone... select the number in history...select block and your done.
> However this POS Android phone I apparently have to add the number to
> the contacts before I am allowed to block it is there a simpler
> way to do this in Android.
>
>

Re: [H] Windows 8 on a dead HD

[Thane Sherrington]

On 26/08/2016 4:52 PM, Christopher Fisk wrote:

Yep, I'm almost 100% sure it's that.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows8ISO
And you win!  Freakin' Microsoft.  It's a .1 update - basically a 
service pack.  Morons.


The downside is this means the install takes longer than it needs to 
since I need to install 8 and then the 8.1 upgrade after I do all the 
initial updates.


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