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Re: Handling phone loss

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Frank Slootweg wrote:

> Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> wrote:
>> On Sat, 05 Sep 2015 16:04:44 +0000, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>>
>>> Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 04 Sep 2015 19:34:27 +0000, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>> I have a Nexus 5 and a Nexus 7 with vanilla Android
>>>>>
>>>>>    IME and AFAICT from the posts in this and other groups (and fora),
>>>>> there is no such thing as "vanilla Android".
>>>>>
>>>>>    Each manufacturer/supplier has their *own* *stock* (not 'vanilla')
>>>>> Android version. That is one of the biggest - if not the biggest -
>>>>> disadvantage of Android, the lack of any standardization accross
>>>>> brands.
>>>>>
>>>>>    "Android, broken-by-(non-)design!"
>>>>
>>>> While I agree in principle, surely a Google phone is less 'messed
>>>> around' than any other one is likely to be?
>>>
>>>    I don't know. Don't Google phones have any Google-phone-only apps?

Wait ... before you were telling us Nexus *aren't* vanilla, now you're 
asking us if Nexus *are* vanilla?  Having owned N1, N4, N5 and N7, I'd 
say the N4/5/7 are completely vanilla.

I never purchased the the N6 or Galaxy Nexus but I think they were just 
a bit out on a carrier-specific limb either hardware- or software-wise, 
the Nexus "S", I don't know about.

>> Google. Google Play store. Google Drive. That's about it.
>
> No, I meant apps (or other 'enhancements') which are *not* available
> on other brands. The ones you mention are available on all other brands.

There was a time when Nexus phones came with apps that you couldn't get 
through the Play store, e.g. the N1 had some apps that you had to 
re-obtain "unofficially" if you flashed it with a 3rd party firmware, I 
suppose you could have extracted the .APKs before flashing and restore 
them, most (if not all) of those are now available in the store.

> The Play Store app is even a *required* app. Without it, the phone is
> basically useless.

Well *a* store app is required, but not necessarily *the* Play store 
app, some manufacturers substitute their own, I would avoid one that did.

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  Re: Handling phone loss Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-09-03 10:49 +0100
    Re: Handling phone loss "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2015-09-03 20:25 +0200
  Re: Handling phone loss Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-09-03 09:58 +0000
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    Re: Handling phone loss Walter Briscoe <wbriscoe@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2015-09-03 11:48 +0100
      Re: Handling phone loss Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2015-09-03 13:49 +0000
        Re: Handling phone loss chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2015-09-03 15:31 +0100
          Re: Handling phone loss Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-09-03 17:44 +0000
            Re: Handling phone loss chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2015-09-04 09:04 +0100
              Re: Handling phone loss Walter Briscoe <wbriscoe@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2015-09-04 12:52 +0100
                Re: Handling phone loss "Woody" <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> - 2015-09-04 15:29 +0100
                Re: Handling phone loss andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) - 2015-09-05 18:31 +0000
                Re: Handling phone loss Axel Berger <Axel_Berger@B.Maus.De> - 2015-09-06 17:02 +0200
                Re: Handling phone loss "Bob F" <bobnospam@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 14:24 -0700
                Re: Handling phone loss chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 09:47 +0100
                Re: Handling phone loss The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 09:05 -0700
                Re: Handling phone loss chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2015-09-04 16:20 +0100
                Re: Handling phone loss Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2015-09-04 23:12 +0100
            Re: Handling phone loss Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-04 19:34 +0000
              Re: Handling phone loss Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-09-04 20:44 +0100
                Re: Handling phone loss Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-05 16:02 +0000
              Re: Handling phone loss Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-09-04 20:22 +0000
                Re: Handling phone loss Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-05 16:04 +0000
                Re: Handling phone loss Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-09-05 18:53 +0000
                Re: Handling phone loss BugHunter <bughunter@com.invalid> - 2015-09-05 20:57 +0200
                Re: Handling phone loss Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-06 12:27 +0000
                Re: Handling phone loss Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-09-06 14:00 +0100
                Re: Handling phone loss Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-06 15:26 +0000
                Re: Handling phone loss Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-09-06 16:46 +0100
                Re: Handling phone loss Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-09-06 13:25 +0000
                Re: Handling phone loss Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-09-06 14:36 +0000
                Re: Handling phone loss Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-06 15:21 +0000
                Re: Handling phone loss David Taylor <davidt-news11@yadt.co.uk> - 2015-09-08 09:00 +0000
                Re: Handling phone loss Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-09-08 10:00 +0000
                Re: Handling phone loss Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-09-08 20:41 +0100
                Re: Handling phone loss The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 12:44 -0700
                Re: Handling phone loss Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-06 20:25 +0000
                Re: Handling phone loss The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 22:41 -0700
          Re: Handling phone loss "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2015-09-03 20:29 +0200
        Re: Handling phone loss "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2015-09-03 20:27 +0200
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      Re: Handling phone loss Walter Briscoe <wbriscoe@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2015-09-07 08:37 +0100
      Re: Handling phone loss Albert Hirsch <doc@treadstone.net> - 2015-09-07 10:17 -0400
      Re: Handling phone loss "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2015-09-07 22:24 +0200
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