On 2014-10-30 13:17, Greg Freemyer wrote:
I use K9. I like it a lot.
Just now I got it to work. Finally. Quick question: I want to disable ALL notifications. I went to folders/All (gmail), and the thing popped a notification that there were 8 new messages. I'm already seeing email, I do not want any notification in the android system area. Say nothing, never tell me there is new email or old email waiting.
One thing my tablet doesn't do, is "dictate" to it instead of typing. Apparently, it is a feature of the Samsung keyboard. The AOSP keyboard doesn't have it, and the google keyboard doesn't keep privacy.
If you mean the voice to text is done in the cloud, I think that is universal for tablets.
Nope. In my Samsung phone with Android 2, I get a microphone in the Samsung keyboard layout. I tap it, and I dictate. In my tablet (Android 4) it is missing.
But you need internet, and that somebody wrote the app. Or that google sees money in it. And getting Internet while roaming is a problem.
Getting easier in the U.S..
Travel abroad :-) You are a single big country, it should be easier. But last time I heard, if you have a phone from one provider, and travel to an area supplied by another provider, you may have to pay large roaming costs. In Europe roaming works, yes. There have been mandates from the European authorities finally forcing the companies to apply reasonable charges for roaming inside Europe at least, for voice and possibly short messages (SMS). But there is no agreement so far for data. If I travel to the US, I do get phone service automatically, yes. It works. However, to make a "local" phone call, I get charged international costs, as if the call was made from Spain two ways. Depends on the agreement of my provider with the local provider of the zone. If I really want service, I have to switch the SIM card for a local one, and my phone is not dual SIM. Next one I buy I'll try it be. The system is better designed to "phone home". The are considered calls "from Spain to Spain". I think SMS were more than half a dollar each last time I traveled, instead of the local 15 eurocents (today I pay nothing). We are not in a global village yet... those prices may be fine for well paid business people, the kind that thought nothing of buying a cellular phone in the 80..90s. Not for normal people. I expect to pay more, but not "penalties". The prices they apply are abusive, everywhere. No wonder people use skype or hangouts or whatever.
I have xfinity service at my house. I routinely am able to find an xfinity hotspot around the city. They have wireless routers integrated into the overhead wiring etc. Around shopping centers. They are currently pushing it out to millions of homes so you can use your own bandwidth while visiting friends and family:
A company that was placing free wifi spots here, working with city councils, wen bankrupt past month. He was selling smoke, and he may be currently in jail or close to. Some home providers here provide you with wifi around the city, they claim, if you have a contract with them for your home and mobile. I have not investigated. But if I go to France or Germany, puff! Nothing. Only what the hotel or other places may provide me.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2363389/to-xfinity-wifi-were-all-hotspots-but...
Looks similar to what ONO is doing here, I think. Unsure. I have to check. if it works like yours, I want out. Not on my router.
Internet over cell service is expensive here. I've done without it for a year+. A cheap navigator is about $100. Pays for itself in short order, even if you need 2.
Nope. Try "Be on road", for instance. Free and open, no internet needed as the map is fully stored in your device. As many countries as you wish, as they use openstreetmap.org maps. The application is not as good as a TomTom in giving instructions, but it is *surprisingly* *good* for the /price/. On the other hand, my house phone contract gives me cellular service for free: voice anywhere (land or mobile), short messages, and internet up to 1 gigabyte per month. They charge for special services numbers, like 902... And my TomTom comes with low speed Internet, too, with service all over Europe and more, for the same yearly flat rate. Only that /I/ can not use it, only the brand program has access, for whatever they choose to give (locate sites, weather, little more). It is automatically used by the device to get information about "incidences", like traffic jams. It automatically sends stats to a central server, and from the speed data they aggregate they dynamically adjust routing to users. If you opt out from giving your stats, you are automatically disabled from getting traffic jam and incidences info, except those they get from the authorities notifications, I guess. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)