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09-09-2019, 10:36 AM | #16 |
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They've got Android watches that are Verizon 4G capable now (no phone necessary). But I'm not sure how that would work as a "minimalist" phone. One phone call would probably kill the battery. And the only way you could easily text would be by voice. A keyboard in a watch app is next to useless.
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09-09-2019, 11:13 AM | #18 |
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I only use my Apple Watch as a phone if I'm driving, or if I really need to answer a call but my hands are icky. I don't have a data plan for it, so can only use it as a phone if I'm on WiFi and my phone is nearby.
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I'm not really a minimalist phone guy. I do keep very few apps on my phone and of the ones I've used, the Google ones are usually the best. So I haven't gone out of my way to uninstall Google Maps or Gboard. But the option is there. |
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Those would be some of the Google apps I was talking about. Gmail, Chrome, the Google app, Google Photos, Phone, Contacts, etc all have an uninstall button on my Pixel.
I haven't tried uninstalling them as I find them useful. Though I do use AquaMail instead of Gmail and I switch at will between Firefox (where I set Bing as the default search engine) and Chrome (my phone is about the only place I do like Chrome, actually). One benefit of the Pixel, I updated to Android 10 this weekend. Anyone else running that? Last edited by ZodWallop; 09-09-2019 at 02:15 PM. |
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They sure don't have an uninstall option on my Pixel 2 XL (not that I would want to remove them).
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On Samsungs, there are certain apps that come preinstalled. Junk you don't want to use (the one I remember is the NFL app, or Slacker Radio). But you cannot uninstall them. Edit: Okay. As a test, I tried uninstalling Gmail, since I use a different email app. I got the familiar old message "Do you want to uninstall all updates to this Android system app?" So I guess you can't uninstall them. you can disable them and replace them with something else, as I did replacing Gmail with AquaMail. Last edited by ZodWallop; 09-09-2019 at 03:24 PM. |
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You can replace all of the Google apps with other ones. You just can't uninstall them like I thought you could. At any rate, since Google makes Android, every Android phone you buy will come with those apps as well. But the Pixel doesn't have any bloat like carrier apps or uninstallable third party apps like the NFL one I mentioned earlier. |
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I'm with you, there. I was amazed at how clean my Pixel was out of the box. I bought it at a Verizon store and there was still no carrier apps at all on it. No games, no alternative messaging apps--nothing. Just the standard Google apps that I expected (and required).
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So I guess I can go back to ignoring android devices. |
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All phones using Android One (e.g. most Nokias, some Xiaomis and Motorolas) are the same as the Pixels with no "bloat". But like the Pixels (and others) the standard base Google apps can be disabled but not removed.
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