So if you are at your “home” screen, hitting the menu key will bring up some options, one of which is “notifications”. This screen is pretty cool…it’s a list of all the notifications or events that have occurred on your phone since you last cleared the screen, including emails, application installs, etc. Selecting any one [...]
gmail account data syncing
When I first got this phone, I started it up and it prompted me to enter my gmail name and password. After that, everything auto-synced. I mean everything. My calendar showed my google cal, complete with all the different calendars I’m subscribed to. All of my gmail contacts were there. A note on that, it [...]
verizon – no tethering
Looks like i will have to wait for somebody to hack root on this thing. Verizon says no tethering. Of course, the closer these things get to being actual hand-held computers, the less you need tethering. My blackberry sucked at browsing the web so I did like hooking it up and using Verizon’s network to [...]
Bluetooth – schmootooth
It is more fussy than the iPhone. It will sync with my car (Audi) but no access to anything other than raw phone functions (speakerphone, dial access, hang up). This was the same as my Blackberry. It’s been a year since I had a Blackberry so I don’t know if they’ve improved since then, but [...]
android tips for the young’uns
What is it about putting everything on youtube? I don’t have time to sit around watching videos. Wait, I guess I did watch a new “The Website is Down” episode yesterday. The Android team sent me an email chock full’o’tips on using andriod. It appears they have their own channel here where you can learn [...]
