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Happy with my Essentialphone

Essential support and sending and receiving texts while driving: The only way to enable sending and receiving text by voice while driving is to use the Android Auto application with the Google Assistant feature on your device, or with your infocentre if it supports the OK Google hotword...

No issues with battery life, phone is working well. Only issue for me is Bluetooth in the car and SMS. I have it paired with my 2016 Subaru Forester. Currently I have to hit buttons on info center to read and reply, I miss how Cortanna audio prompted me. So looking for a way to have the phone...

Figured if going to give Android a try I wanted as stock of a phone as possible. So far, so good. Learning curve involved in anything new. Using the SquareHome 2 launcher and liking it so far. Biggest issues? The apps, in a good way. Apps that I want and apps that are actually updated for the...

So say I have a gmail and Hotmail account. Gmail is mainly to give to those people (businesses) that I don't really want email from. Kind of my spam email account. Hotmail is my primary personal account. If I am looking to use Microsoft services on an Android device is there an advantage to...

My Essential One Phone should be here this week

So Microsoft stuff like OneDrive won't work?

Price on the phone has dropped to $500, and the extended warranty (2 years) from $199 to $99. I'm debating getting one now. Stock Android, like the design, sounds like many of the camera issues have been addressed through the updates.

Thanks

Or can I use my Hotmail account?

Main issues I have been seeing are around Blue Tooth: If texts come in while one is being read to me over blue tooth, I get no notification about new texts. Sometimes the volume for notifications goes to zero when I connect to BT. Which is a pain when I am not on BT and a phone call/text comes...

I found another option, Private Internet Access Generating a Password for PPTP/L2TP/SOCKS Setup is suppose to work with the latest versions of WP8.1, according to tech support

I keep hoping Tunnel Bear will offer a WP app...

What VPN services are out there that work with WP 8.1 for home/personal use?

This recently started happening. One I go into the OneDrive app on my 1020 and then attempt to go into a folder such as Documents, the screen gets stuck on "Loading..." and nothing else happens. This happens on LTE and WiFi, phone been re-started and even did a soft reset. No help. I can...