Hi Folks,
I have been using an iPhone 3G till now and just made the switch to Android. Just received my Atrix today and spent time getting familiar with Android/Motoblur and setting things up.
Now, I am really confused between these three apps
1. Email
2. Messaging
3. Gmail
From the time I've spend playing around, I know that Email and Messaging look pretty much the same, except that messaging also has text messages. So why do we have these two separate apps? Then there is Gmail. If I have a gmail account, should I add it to the Motoblur accounts or set it up with the Gmail app? Why are there so many overlapping apps?
Basically all I want is a single app where I can check all my emails from different accounts just like iPhone's native email app.
Please be easy on me as I am an android newbie Thanks in advance!
- Gmail is Google's gmail app that supports multiple gmail accounts
- Email is Moto's email app that supports different types of email accounts (integrated with MotoBlur)
- Messaging is Moto's text and MMS app
agentdr8 said:
- Gmail is Google's gmail app that supports multiple gmail accounts
- Email is Moto's email app that supports different types of email accounts (integrated with MotoBlur)
- Messaging is Moto's text and MMS app
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"Messaging" actually integrates texts, GMail, and the MotoBlur Email client. There is also a "Text Messaging" app that just handles texts. If you use the "Messaging" widget, you can even get FB messages on it.
Oops, I stand corrected. Was thinking about the captivate's Messaging.
samgnb said:
Hi Folks,
I have been using an iPhone 3G till now and just made the switch to Android. Just received my Atrix today and spent time getting familiar with Android/Motoblur and setting things up.
Now, I am really confused between these three apps
1. Email
2. Messaging
3. Gmail
From the time I've spend playing around, I know that Email and Messaging look pretty much the same, except that messaging also has text messages. So why do we have these two separate apps? Then there is Gmail. If I have a gmail account, should I add it to the Motoblur accounts or set it up with the Gmail app? Why are there so many overlapping apps?
Basically all I want is a single app where I can check all my emails from different accounts just like iPhone's native email app.
Please be easy on me as I am an android newbie Thanks in advance!
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To answer your other question, if you want to use the Moto "Messaging" with Universal Inbox then all you have to do is go to Accounts and select Google at the bottom and deselect "Sync Email" and then just setup your Gmail through Moto's Email client and you can get all your emails (just once) in the universal inbox. If you use both then you will receive redundant notifications for your Gmail.
I'm looking for a widget (probably with an underlying app) that aggregates messages (SMS), mail (exchange/IMAP), gmail (android client, not IMAP via mail app) and facebook messages. Motorola has something along this line in their droid devices, and Samsung had the discontinued social hub. Anyone know any good 3rd party options?
Try pure messenger widget...
I have seen many Emoji plugins for apps such as SMS pro, or Handcent SMS
but is there a way I can see and send Emoji using the Kik Messenger, is there a type of plugin?
Thank you in advance.:laugh:
Does anyone know if it is possible to combine a Facebook contacts messenger chat windows with the sms windows of their phone number. For example If I'm texting person A and they are a friend on Facebook. Can I combine the Facebook messaging chat of person A with the sms chat of person A. All on androids messenger app of course.
Thanks
Hi, I'm trying to use the sms integration feature of Facebook Messenger with a 3rd party sms application on Android. I'm using Textnow app but I can't get Messenger to integrate the sms into Messenger. Every time I enable the feature it integrate the sms from the stock android app instead of the 3rd party sms app Textnow regardless of the fact that Textnow is my default sms app or not. I also tried to disable the stock android sms app but to no avail. How do we integrate sms into Messenger from a 3rd party sms app on Android ?