Google Phone (was Re: missing Google Phone)

Chris candive1 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 22 00:27:19 UTC 2011


*Mmmmmmmmmmmmm, beer, bacon and maple syrup,*

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Ilija Milicevic <engr3337 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Stephen: That's because dem Canoooks are a weird breed and would probably
> mess up the Google Phone system with their beer, bacon and maple syrup!!!
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Stephen Kawamoto <shkawamoto at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> Google Phones are from an American company. Google is 100 percent
>> American-owned; using en-UK or en-CA would confuse the OS which expects
>> en-US!
>>
>> This is not a bug; this is a special feature designed to remind you that
>> the problem you has is due to your misperception that anyother English is
>> correct rather than the standard en-US!!
>>
>> I guess this means "en-CA" mucked up the Google Phone.
>>
>>
>> On or about Thursday 20 Jan 2011 at 12:39:24 Eastern Standard Time
>>  "swfiua at gmail.com" wrote t: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
>> on the following subject: "Re: missing Google phone"
>> Message-ID:
>>    <AANLkTinFhQmCWne0=4YfD9VcMC6dW4ezO1b+5_D-rLZv at mail.gmail.com<4YfD9VcMC6dW4ezO1b%2B5_D-rLZv at mail.gmail.com>
>> >
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>
>> Check your language settings.
>>
>> Bizarrely, you have to set your language to US-English to get the phone
>> option.
>>
>> I'm from the UK so switched mine to UK English because the US date format
>> was making my brain hurt -- took me a while to figure out why I'd lost the
>> phone.
>>
>> John
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Chris <candive1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Does anyone know how to put my phone icon back in my Google Chat?
>> > I don't know where it went.
>> > I use it for long distance calls.
>> > I have Googled it with no luck.
>> > I have checked my gmail settings.
>> > ??
>> > Thanks
>> > Chris.
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