Smartphones

I got 5.0 on my Nexus 5 today as well. I haven't had much time to even really look at it, but it appears to have completely nuked my work email. When you click on the email app it tells you that it is now merged with Gmail, and to go there. WTF, I don't want my work email integrated with that.

Hopefully I am missing something somewhere.

Well like I said I haven't really looked at it much yet. I assume I have to go through setting it all back up with my work email. I had mostly only used the widget to glance at work email anyway, so it wasn't the end of the world. Also, I had stopped using Gmail and went to Inbox, so I still have 2 apps to use now.

I assume the Gmail widget works the same as the email one did.

Went and grabbed the Nexus 6 today. There was already a few people there in front of me, and by the time I left they sold their last one. Haven't had any time to play with it, but will report back when I do.

I may be retarded (entirely possible) but I thought that 5.0 and/or the Nexus 6 allowed wifi calling. Did I totally miss that somewhere? For the life of me, I can't find the setting anywhere to turn it on if it is in there.

You'll need a gvoice number too. This doesn't require Android 5.0 if others are interested.

My world just came crashing down. I can't believe this, but there are no notification lights on the N6. It was one of those things I just sort of assumed was there and didn't look into it at all. I loved my lights, and I am not sure what I am going to do without them

Denamian_sl said:

Nope, you don't need gvoice at all. I've made calls with hangouts and it just shows up as private on calller ID. I've never used gvoice and definitely don't have a number with it.

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Well, might be helpful for all the carrier switching you might be doing. If someone calls you and you want to answer in Hangouts, you'll need gvoice for that.

Yeah I knew about the hangouts thing, but that isn't exactly what I was looking for I guess.

I was under the assumption that it was going to be the same as how the iPhone 6 works, and you can simply hook up to any WiFi signal and make calls normally. I know that is how my wife's phone works.

If you port your number over to gvoice and use the gvoice app to make all calls(through the system dialer) through gvoice, you can get 90% of the way there. There's still some hitches like the hangouts dialer not registering as a system dialer.

I believe both of those have been resolved. I can't comment personally on the first one, I don't make calls enough to notice if my cheeks are changing settings, but I will look out for it now. The call quality has been outstanding for me, much better than any other VOIP services I have used(Vonage being the lone exception). What pleased me the most is that the latency is pretty much gone.

The integration of gvoice into hangouts definitely had the feel of being a live beta. I use the hangouts extension in Chrome and couldn't find a way to SMS one of my contacts that didn't have a gmail account. Even after figuring out I had press the phone button just to bring up that contact, it still wouldn't let me SMS them, defaulting to a call instead. In a rare moment of frustration, I left some detailed feedback and the next day the SMS button was there. Likely a coincidence. Anyway, a lot has improved lately, I would give another try.