Recent content by joebobbill

I've had a smart phone for 3 months. It is not growing on me. I think it is a control thing. I'm constantly fighting Google Now (the butler). The butler thinks it owns the phone. I think I'm in charge. Silly me. I never liked the butler, but he seemed to stay out of my hair for the first...

Here is the best answer I've come across: looking for a simple app to read out my texts This isn't the same question, but related: Best Siri like app

Is there a way to high-light a section of email, and invoke a TTS engine which speaks the highlighted text?

O13, >If you bought it from Walmart it sounds like you might be on family mobile >which is not really T-Mobile they just run off T-Mobile. Is this something I can tell from the settings? The sim card was punched out of a plastic card that said 'TMobile'

Kevin, >So the problem is getting VOIP working properly? I don't think so. I've had it work perfectly when on a wifi network. I need it to work when there is no wifi, though. It isn't a big issue, just part of the journey.

I'm posting this because I've been reading post here for several months and found them very helpful. Maybe my recap will be useful to someone. I've had my Galaxy SII since the last week of February (45 days or so). Prior to that, I had been using the $99 Straight-talk feature phone (3 or 4...