User guide

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Evaluation

The phone does deliver what it promises. The instal-

lation is fairly simple. Sound quality is crystal clear

as well. A plus is that when you add names to your

directory, you have the option of specifying where

the phone is located (Home, Cell, Work or Other).

Previously I needed to add cell to the directory name

in order to dierentiate the person’s landline or cell

number.

I found a few negatives as well. It takes extra key

presses to access which phone you want to connect

to. A non-Bluetooth® phone only requires one key

press. Like many other phone manufacturers, vtech

uses a proprietary NiMH battery. After installation,

you have to wait 16 hours for a full charge before

you can use the phone.

Conclusion

I found the features of this phone comparable to

others on the market. But the real benet of add-

ing my cell phone to a home system was the real

highlight. Considering that the price of this device is

comparable to others without Bluetooth® makes this

a cordless system worth considering.

ith the new Google Dashboard, Google

has taken another step towards transpar-

ency about how it uses all the information

it collects about you and which you give it to store.

The single location shows a summary of data stored

for most services Google operates associated with a

particular account of yours (I have two for structural

and historical reasons).

Each service shows a summary of top-line informa-

tion, such as the various email addresses associated

with a Google Account or settings for your Google

calendar, and then links to management features

and the privacy and/or security policies for the ser-

vice.

While this doesn’t address all the issues about the

mammoth amount of data collection and storage

Google undertakes, it’s a nice way to see at a glance

what we’ve let the company do - and, with a few

clicks, wipe some of that information o its books.

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Google Shows You What It Knows about You

by Glenn Fleishman