email and contacts on android fones

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Ian Knight

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Jul 19, 2015, 6:29:05 AM7/19/15
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Hi guys 
so i was thinking of getting a moto g and wondering where the contacts are stored, in the phone or sim, or some mysterious place on the web?
Also do you need any kind of google or moto user id to be able to send or receive emails, basically will it down load emails from my sky account and store them in the phone?

Can i backup contacts (number), photos, music, etc to an external USB ram stick or only to a PC?

I ask i i have bought a MS Lumia 640, nice screen and pretty well made, user interface in ok both tactile and OS.
But dam thing seems to want to own me as you have to create an MS account to store your contacts etc and this is just another dam user id and password i don't need.
Basically i just wanted a smart fone, not to marry MS.

Ian

James Wade

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Jul 19, 2015, 7:15:18 AM7/19/15
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Hi Ian,

Unfortunately, most smartphones do this as it's a bit of a tradeoff between price and privacy. That's how they are able to offer you a phone at good prices as they get to tie you into their platform.

Android based phones are probably the most open you'll get in a smartphone, so that's your best bet.

Though, Android based phones such as the Google owned Motorola Moto G can be a tied in too. Not that I mind that because I'm a big fan of everything Google so I find it all very convenient that everything is synchronized together.

I realise though, that it's not for everyone, so did the CyanogenMod guys who made an open-source operating system based on the Android mobile platform which is less dependant on Google.

You should be able to switch to CyanogenMod on the Moto G, however the phone I have and am very pleased with, the OnePlus One comes with it natively.


With the Moto G the contacts are stored on the phone and synced with your Google account (if you want). You can sort import/export to your SIM card or storage.

I don't do that however, I sync everything on my phone to Google and then sync that to my PC, with Thunderbird and Google Provider.

Hope this helps! :)

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Ian Knight

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Jul 19, 2015, 8:13:05 AM7/19/15
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Thanks for the info James,

One of issue I have with web ownership of my contacts is who is looking, I been in IT for long enough now to know that sniffer exist.

I know as I have used enough of them in my time to look at confidential data packets in detail, so reassuring words like you data is completely secure and no else has access to it, is BS. Hence it only takes one disgruntled employee to sell off your contacts and as I am sure you know they get spammed at best and ID theft’ed at worst etc etc. The other issue I have is that my contact only seem to be saved to the web and if I can’t’ access it for what ever reason I am stuffed.

One other thing I don’t like about this MS Lumia phone is, is that its always send stuff up to the web, like every time you turn the FM radio to another channel you see web traffic. Makes you wonder how you are being spied on and by whom, like just come out of the bath and walk by the thing, click ,click and your birthday suit photos are on the web.

Think ill ebay it and stick to my nice old moto dumb fone, at least I feel like I own it and not the other way around ;-)

Ian

 


Ian Knight

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Jul 19, 2015, 11:02:01 AM7/19/15
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I looked at the oneplus one and it was a close 2nd only beaten on price by the MS phone.

 


Ian Knight

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Jul 19, 2015, 11:04:15 AM7/19/15
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James,

BTW what the FM receiver like in he oneplus one?

 Lumia is fine for local station stoke booms in but wont pickup smooth FM NW or WM stations

 


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James Wade

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Jul 19, 2015, 11:26:50 AM7/19/15
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Many phones don't come with FM receivers enabled these days as it is becoming something of a dying technology in respects to listening to radio stations as people just stream radio online (which is a bit of a waste of bandwidth).

If you are just listening at home, a neat little project would be to turn your Pi into an FM Tuner than stream it so you can access it from your WiFi devices such as your phone.

lionschasing

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Jul 19, 2015, 2:03:24 PM7/19/15
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Might be an idea to look into flashing the lumia phones is to something that swiss company offered open source its a secure android version

Ian Knight

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Jul 19, 2015, 2:06:12 PM7/19/15
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So James can you backup your contacts on you plusone phone to sim and/or PC?

Ian Knight

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Jul 19, 2015, 2:14:30 PM7/19/15
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Sorry Archie I mist that, which swiss co. do an android flash for lumias?

ian

 


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lionschasing

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Jul 19, 2015, 3:43:53 PM7/19/15
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I think its called the black phone. There's an open sourced secure android similar to tails os just need to flash it with the ROM. I read about flashing my cheap Inew i6000 with this ROM and it was successful according to members on the xda forum

James Wade

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Jul 19, 2015, 4:14:39 PM7/19/15
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Yup, any Android device should do it, including the Moto G.
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