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TheCatt wrote:You mean WiFi Assistant? Or networks you've connected to previously?

Wasn't even aware of that... I mean when I get home, it is not connecting my my secure wifi AP that I already connected it to and told it to save the pword. As soon as I go into wifi settings and touch the AP again, THEN it connects. It should do it automatically.

I will look for that setting, though.

GORDON wrote:Google Fi is now in open enrollment, and I would have saved $200 on my phone if I had waited 1 month, 20 days.

http://www.theverge.com/2016....veryone

Complain. Google has pretty generous return policies.

I don't know if this is Google-centric, or Android-centric, or if I just never noticed the function before, but I can actually block phone numbers on my phone. Finally I am able to get those "extend the warranty on your vehicle!" and "hey you won a cruise!" calls to stop.

Weird happenstance today:

This morning in my driveway i said to my phone, "OK Google now, navigate me to Huntsville, Alabama" and I hit the road. It was all good, she welcomed me to each state, warned me about accidents, and gave good.driving instructions without sounding like a nagging bitch.

Anyway, soon after the craziness that is Nashville, I noticed navigation had stopped working. I tried some fixes while driving, but couldn't do shit. So I stopped for gas and took a good look..... somehow the phone was in airplane mode, all data streaming was turned off independently, and screen auto-rotate was disabled. Weird.

Google gonna make their own hardware now or something.

http://nerdist.com/google-may-launch-it ... d-of-2016/

Who knows. They did the Motorola thing, then undid it...

Well, 3 years later, I've got a problem. The new Google phone is expensive. I've saved a lot of $ over the past 3 years with Nexus phones + Ting/Fi. Hmmmm.

Yeah, my biggest monthly bill so far has been $28. Google Fi.

I think I hit 35 one month when traveling.

I bought the Pixel.

The preorder comes with a free preorder for the DayDream, the VR product. I'm not terribly keen on VR, but what the hell. For free, I'll try it out.

If I didn't already own 3 wireless routers in my house, I'd probably get a 3-pack of these wifi devices.

I sometimes want a free-range speaker device like the Amazon Echo or Google Home, but it's pretty convenient to just reach out to my phone and do the same stuff (with the added benefit of a screen).

I love the shot at pretentious naming taken with their color selections

Pixel comes in two sizes, 5” or 5.5”, and three colors: Very Silver, Quite Black and our limited edition for the U.S. only, Really Blue.

Ah, a new phone for the Fi network.

$650? I'll take 3.

Yeah... it's not cheap. But what the heck. I've decided I want a snappier camera and stuff.

I'll snap it up when the next version comes out and that one hits 4