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Hoopz:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on April 27, 2012, 11:35:06 pm ---I really like google voice. It kind of makes me mad that apple is doing these "Suri" commercials when google voice has been available for a LOOONG time, not to mention the fact that it's voice recogniton seems to be a bit better. I remember doing a test of it on my pc ages ago and was astounded when it could understand my "itellectual hillbilly" accent.
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Since I have my work phone and hated carrying two phones, I ported my cell # to Google voice and set it up to forward to my work phone. Google Voice has so many attributes that can be used, it's extremely beneficial. I can make calls from either # on my work phone and my personal calls don't use minutes though it does use data. The visual voicemail is handy though the computer interpreted translations are hit or miss at times. Mostly on names of individuals or businesses. Every day words it has down very well.
I didn't realize that it handles... um "regional dialects" so well. :cheers:
Blanka:
I have no apps on it. In fact, I wish it was possible to ditch some of the pre-installed apps as well, as they poop-up everytime and harvest data for who knows what reason. My droid isn't even activated at google, so I don't know what the use of that data COULD be. There is no ads on it, it has no data-connection active, so why harvest for companies with ad-profiling information if a user does not consume ads and there is no chance the data gets out of the phone to the interested company in the first place.... Android is a weird thing.. The tie with Google makes it suck for at least 50% by design (ever saw the permission tab of any application: it is foolish!).
My droid phones, it texts, and it has a handy movie and stills cam. I tried it one month with apps, but especially emailing on the phone started to mess up my communication so bad, I did throw that off the first.
The most important thing when you buy an Android phone: BUY ONE THAT ROOTS EASILY. With my HTC Wildfire S-CRAP it doesn't, which makes the phone useless beyond being a dumbphone.
If it roots you can:
- Delete HTC nonSENSE if you have a HTC. The most bad phone UI ever created on top of Android. I wish I could replace it with Samsungs or Sony's.
- Delete ASSBOOK app (important!)
- Disable any permission for any app you like without harming functioning (it can send nonsense data like location timbuktu).
- Replace Android with one of the non-Google versions for ad-free smartphone life.
Guess I'm not made for 2012 gizmo's. Lets fire up that DK cabinet....
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