That seems to be the downside of Handoff. It requires Apple devices.
Pete
Pete
I dont think so. As far as I know it only works with your iPhone, your iPad, and your OSX computers.Its like Continuity, the value is a call, SMS, iMessage, photo edit, Safari websurf, etc, etc, is not tied to any one device, you can use any of them. We used to own 4 devices. If we wanted to go from iPhone to iPad, we pickup the iPad then manually navigate to the webpage, we want. Or the photo album we are looking through. Or Message we want to reply to. Handoff and Continuity allow us to treat our 4 Apple devices as one device, in 4 form factors. Move from one to the other, one upward swipe allows you to pickup where you left off.Not a calling system but a very very nuice innovatice approach to increasing the ease of using many devices to do one task.From: "Pete petefromflorida@gmail.com [iPad]" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
To: "iPad@yahoogroups.com" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, October 3, 2014 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [iPad] New OS
Handoff appears to be an attempt to copy what GV does seamlessly between ANY phones including landlines.
PeteIf GV is a version of Handoff, its not a calling system like Skype, so no need for payments or credits.It must be an extension system like Handoff. In Handoff the iPhone makes/recives ALL of the calls/SMS, the other devices are just wireless speakers and microphones. The trick is the seamlessness, allowing you to easily recieve and make a callFrom: "Just Murray krismurray@gmail.com [iPad]" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
To: "iPad@yahoogroups.com" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, October 3, 2014 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: [iPad] New OS
Can you call without credits? I haven't tried yet but I am curious (and too lazy to look up the answer)~KLM\\ "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." ~Helen Keller //I've been using Google Voice for 9 years and that's all I use for voice and text. GV's 9 year old version of Handoff for phone calls can't be beat.
PeteIos8 to ios8??? Meh oh well I don't text using iMessage anymore anyway. I actually don't know that many people that I text. And when I do I use google voice.~KLM\\ "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." ~Helen Keller //Its not, its iOS8 to iOS8, and I assume including Yosemite when its outBut thats ok, over time I seem to have migrated many friends and family to AppleFrom: "Just Murray krismurray@gmail.com [iPad]" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
To: "mailto:iPad@yahoogroups..com" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, October 3, 2014 12:41 AM
Subject: Re: [iPad] New OS
Ahhh I thought it was just audio texts. Video is nice. I won't how cross platform it is?~KLM\\ "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." ~Helen Keller //Yes it is good, I was playing with that yesterday afternoon, and the audio textsFrom: "Terry Pogue tpogue@comcast.net [iPad]" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
To: iPad@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, October 2, 2014 3:56 PM
Subject: [iPad] New OS
The video option in text messages is great fun. Love it. Fabulous for people that might need to text while driving. Works beautifully in iPads as well as iPhones
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