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To: Heywood40 who wrote (4761)	11/10/2014 7:04:42 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 11191

Apple just made it easier to ditch your iPhone: You can now ‘deregister’ iMessage online November 9, 2014 3:15 PM Harrison Weber venturebeat.com Today Apple quietly released a new tool which makes it easier for iPhone owners to deregister and turn off iMessage — something you might want to do if you ever switch to Android and still want to receive text messages. Over the past year, Apple has found itself in hot water for a bug which prevents some former iPhone owners from receiving text messages sent by an Apple device to their new Android device. In fact, this matter was the subject of a class action lawsuit in May. Apple’s tool should make it slightly easier for new Android (or even Windows Phone) device owners to make sure the switch goes as smoothly as possible — although it would’ve been nicer if Apple just automatically detected the switch. Previously, ex-iPhone users had to call Apple Care if they encountered any issues, as this Reddit users notes. If you’ve encountered iMessage-related issues or plan on ditching your iPhone any time soon, you should probably bookmark this link. Via: Reddit, the Verge

To: Heywood40 who wrote (4761)	11/10/2014 7:52:00 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 11191

LG Hopes to Launch True Designed Bendable Smartphones in 2015; Rollable Displays by 2017; unlike the low quality CRAPple POS junk garbage that are bending cause they are a pile of CRAP made out of soda cans... LMFAO... too funny... Published on November 10, 2014 by Tom Dawson androidheadlines.com If tablets and smartphones that are faster than our laptops were a few years ago weren’t signs enough, LG is looking to convince that the future we’ve seen from science fiction is finally upon us. LG has long been an innovator in the display space and in this most recent roadmap, we’ve learned that LG is looking to release smartphones that are bendable in some way by as early as next year. Not only that, but they’re looking to deliver rollable displays some time near 2017. These are exciting times and it seems that LG might be the first to introduce us to these new technologies. The latest roadmap from LG focuses on Plastic OLED (organic LED displays) or P-OLED for short, and 2015 seems to be the year that LG will have displays ready for bendable smartphones and tablets. While this sounds sort of crazy, LG has been here before, and with a consumer product, no less. The LG G Flex wasn’t named as such due to the curved display, but because the device could quite literally flex without breaking. If you were to put the G Flex on a surface with the display facing down, you could apply pressure to flatten out the curved device without causing permanent damage. Just what use cases LG have in mind for devices hitting the market in 2015 is unknown at this point, but something in the same vein as the G Flex is pretty much a given. While it perhaps won’t hit the Android world quite so hard, LG is looking ahead even further to 2017 and the launch of rollable displays, which we’re assuming might have more use for military and medical applications than it would our smartphones and tablets. Either way though, this is exciting. For a long time now, we’ve been using our smartphones and tablets in much the same way for the past five plus years and now, things are set to change all over again. Question is though; how would you use a bendable smartphone or tablet? This entry was posted in Android News. SOURCE: LG Newsroom VIA: GforGames

To: Heywood40 who wrote (4761)	11/10/2014 12:16:24 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 11191

Apple Tool Removes Phone Numbers From The iMessage System, Making Switches To Android Easier Nov 10, 2014 Apple's proprietary iMessage system lets iPhone users send text messages to other iPhone users over a data network, avoiding SMS charges and making texting free, at least within Apple's ecosystem. It's an impressive run-around of the entrenched carrier system - the same basic idea, applied to an agnostic model, has made texting alternatives like WhatsApp fantastically popular. But users found that trying to leave Apple's walled garden was much harder after setting up iMessage with their personal phone numbers. If you're moving from an iPhone to another smartphone platform, you must first de-associate your phone number with iMessage, not only on your iPhone, but on any other Apple device (iPad, OS X) that you've used it with. Failing to do this means that text messages from other iPhone users will be sent to the iMessage system instead of the standard SMS protocol - and without an iPhone, those messages will simply disappear into the mobile ether. What's worse is that without the original iPhone used to associate the phone number with iMessage (say, if someone sold or broke their original iPhone), there was no way to undo this association. Apple introduced iMessage in October of 2011 with the launch of iOS 5 and the iPhone 4S. Though users became aware of the problem shortly thereafter, and were quite vocal with their frustration, Apple has never seemed particularly worried about it. The only people experiencing the "vanishing message" bug were those who had just left the Apple mobile platform, after all. The biggest problem was probably that users were never alerted that using iMessage would cause incoming messages from other iPhone users to be sent exclusively through Apple's system, and that this wouldn't stop if their iPhone was no longer used. Today, Apple has finally released a tool that lets former iPhone users de-associate their phone numbers from iMessage without having physical access to an iPhone. Once you receive a confirmation code from Apple and send it back via the support site, you should receive standard text messages from iPhone users, which will come in the usual way to any Android phone, Windows Phone, Blackberry, or "dumb" phone. We must commend Apple for (eventually) acceding to its users wishes and allowing greater inter-operability between smartphone platforms. We couldn't guess what took the company so long, but the timing might have something to do with an ongoing class-action lawsuit alleging that Apple failed to inform customers that switching to other phones would cause iMessage to malfunction. Just a guess. Source: Apple via AnandTech, Verge