Re: Samsung Galaxy S, Big Brother, and an unsolicited review [Was: Advice Needed - Bye Bye Nokia!]

2011-03-02 Thread Moish
On 27/02/2011 06:23, sammy ominsky wrote: On 26/02/2011, at 03:24, Shachar Shemesh wrote: The contacts situation is a little more complicated on stock Android. The contacts application is useable even before logging in to Google, but it uses a temporary local provider that is no longer

Re: Samsung Galaxy S, Big Brother, and an unsolicited review [Was: Advice Needed - Bye Bye Nokia!]

2011-02-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 25/02/11 23:28, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: I hope synchronization can be disabled on all Android phones, but I don't know that and I could not find out. My Calendar was a major reason for choosing Galaxy S. Calendar and contacts use a provider (technical term) in order to

Re: Samsung Galaxy S, Big Brother, and an unsolicited review [Was: Advice Needed - Bye Bye Nokia!]

2011-02-26 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On 2/25/11, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: Configuring email accounts with incoming (POP) and outgoing (SMTP) gmail.com servers This is a bit of a goof: Gmail only supports IMAP with Android clients, but not POP. I usually use POP but I had to configure IMAP for the phone,

Re: Samsung Galaxy S, Big Brother, and an unsolicited review [Was: Advice Needed - Bye Bye Nokia!]

2011-02-26 Thread sammy ominsky
On 26/02/2011, at 03:24, Shachar Shemesh wrote: The contacts situation is a little more complicated on stock Android. The contacts application is useable even before logging in to Google, but it uses a temporary local provider that is no longer available once the Google provider is

Samsung Galaxy S, Big Brother, and an unsolicited review [Was: Advice Needed - Bye Bye Nokia!]

2011-02-25 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il writes: I also heard about some kind of a Big Brother issue with Android devices? I am a very privacy-conscious type so I'll be glad to hear about Big Brother issues if anyone has more information. As far as I know there are a couple of issues to be aware