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Anyone else receive a Nexus One email from Google?

So, I'm not sure what to make of this email, I'm wondering if it's because I recently updated to the AOSP 2.1 ROM that Darchstar is working on. I certainly didn't buy a Nexus One, but I hope by some stretch of luck that I'm getting one for free! Nah, will never happen
Here's the email:
Android Team to me
Subject : Welcome to Android!
show details 10:37 AM (1 hour ago)
Hello!
Your new Nexus One phone has many cool and useful features. Learn more by clicking on the links to watch brief YouTube videos directly on your phone:
Customize your home screen with widgets and live wallpapers. Learn more
Read, search, archive, label and write emails on the go. Learn more
Watch videos or upload your own videos directly to YouTube. Learn more
Get turn by turn directions with satellite and street views of your route. Learn more
You can find all these videos and more on the Nexus One playlist at youtube.com/googlenexusone.
Enjoy!
The Android Team at Google
Google, Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
We sent you this one-time welcome message because you recently purchased an Android-powered phone

Hmm, I never got one of those...It would sure make me feel special if i did though! lol

Yeah I got one to when I wad running that Rom too

I also recieved an email like that but I was running Fresh 1.0

ugh...knew it was too good to be true.
I'm gonna wait for the HTC desire/supersonic anyway

Yeah got it too with the darchstar AOSP 2.1, hopefully we don't get charged the early termination fee from google if we change to a different rom.

Lol I got one too. I think its really funny If only I had a cmda nexus one

I got an email from Steve Jobs telling me how I had made an excellent decision by sticking to an Android based device. What a guy.

i got the same email this morning after installing 2.1 last night.
lol

i got that email too. weird, huh?

Did it actually show up in your gmail box on the web, or was it just in your phone, kinda like microsoft does when you first set up an email, it puts a welcome email in your inbox.

I got one too

clamknuckle said:
Did it actually show up in your gmail box on the web, or was it just in your phone, kinda like microsoft does when you first set up an email, it puts a welcome email in your inbox.
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It was in my web based gmail inbox, although it could have come to my phone's box first.

Was in my web gmail too. It happened when I loaded the 2.1 AOSP, so maybe it thinks I have nexus one because it is only device that runs 2.1 out of box?

HeroMeng said:
Was in my web gmail too. It happened when I loaded the 2.1 AOSP, so maybe it thinks I have nexus one because it is only device that runs 2.1 out of box?
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It would have been MUCH cooler if somehow Darchstar had hacked a way for us to get free Nexus Ones

kmartburrito said:
ugh...knew it was too good to be true.
I'm gonna wait for the HTC desire/supersonic anyway
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I been Drooling over that phone since it was just listed as a WiMax device. I live in Vegas, and already have Clearwire for internet, would love to get 4G on my cellular!

I have Optimum for internet, but 4G on the Supersonic would be sa-weet!

[Q] Xoom Email Search -- Where is it???

In the Corporate (Exchange) mail. There is NO SEARCH button. I cannot find it on any menus either. I did download touchdown and am able to search in there but either I can't find it in the regular email program or it's a huge blunder by the Honeycomb team and they forgot to include one.

Sorry this has never been a feature of stock Android, ever. Not to say that it won't come, but they just haven't ever included it for whatever reason.

Pure speculation, but i think the search is missing because it would be restricted to messages downloaded to the xoom, missing anything residing on the server, reducing the usefulness of the search results.
For example, searching my gmail inbox from the mail app on my iphone never gives me anything past 10 recent emails.
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My evo has email search and I have used it a ton of times. Kinda pissed it isn't included.
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mrsexkey said:
My evo has email search and I have used it a ton of times. Kinda pissed it isn't included.
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Your evo has HTC sense to handle corporate/regular email.

mrsexkey said:
My evo has email search and I have used it a ton of times. Kinda pissed it isn't included.
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You might try using K9 Mail. They just released an update to make it compatible with honeycomb albeit not optimized.

I have XOOM and will probably return it because of this problem. FYI the built in Apple IPAD email reader is able to search local exchange mail correctly. Also the IPAD reader has a very useful preview funciton that I am used to in exchange and neither the built in email reader nor touchdown have this feature. bummer!

not included in the first honeycomb OS update
Well, my xoom just received the update to prepare it for the 3/18 adobe flash download -- email search was not included in this upldate. I too really miss this feature.
Jim Capraro

peacefulwarrior42 said:
I have XOOM and will probably return it because of this problem. FYI the built in Apple IPAD email reader is able to search local exchange mail correctly. Also the IPAD reader has a very useful preview funciton that I am used to in exchange and neither the built in email reader nor touchdown have this feature. bummer!
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Think "Software platform", and then go download K9, it's free, or buy Touchdown. One does not have to rely on stock apps.

@Bauxite ...
WRONG... vanilla froyo and gingerbread (as well as all versions before that i think?) have ALWAYS had stock email search capabilities as well as systemwide searching. have you ever looked at just about every android device with the harware spyglass button at the bottom??
whats up xoom/motorola/google? this could be a dealbreaker for most people including me.

no email search
Pretty poor coming from a company who is al about search.

Is there any update to this?
I have an ASUS Transformer and it is VERY annoying not to have search functionality in the browser. I use IMAP and not Exchange so I can't figure out how to make Touchdown work either (plus I would rather not pay money)
Fix this, Google!!

[Q] Google music

So I sent my invite at 12 exactly. I really want an invitation. Has anyone been successful? It would be great for my transformer and my droid x.

Still waiting. Sent around the same time as you.

I'm in the UK, so no.
We don't even have the Tablet-specific Market, Google Books, nor this new Google Movies. I'm used to it.

i slept on it... sent mine in at 12:10

I sent mine in as well.
I think once you get it you will have invites to give out to others. I had several Google beta invites in the past. Gmail came with 100 invites, Wave had 5 invites, and Voice had 5 invites before they all opened up to the public.

I don't think time is a factor for their invites. I knew other people that never got Google Wave or Google Voice invites despite them sending in their requests before I did. They have a selection process that somewhat monitors what Google products you use. One exception was Google Wave beta testing. It was more like a mini application you had to send in for a request.

grenademasta said:
I don't think time is a factor for their invites. I knew other people that never got Google Wave or Google Voice invites despite them sending in their requests before I did. They have a selection process that somewhat monitors what Google products you use. One exception was Google Wave beta testing. It was more like a mini application you had to send in for a request.
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Yeah I got my google wave invite off someone from twitter. I hope they do it like that again but I think they, right actually limit since it isn't always going to be free unless they do that to sucker you in
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Any invites!
Does anyone have an invite they can send me?

I believe no invites have been given yet. Probably still going over it with developers at I/O. Some articles are only popping up now about it.

also requested an invite ...forgot what time though.
hoping for the best.

did anyone receive one yet?

nothing here yet.

Nada...

Wouldn't be surprised to see invites on Ebay lol. Just a thought. It would be funny to see how much people would bid for an invite to Google Music.

Putzy said:
I'm in the UK, so no.
We don't even have the Tablet-specific Market, Google Books, nor this new Google Movies. I'm used to it.
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Not to forget Google Voice.
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Still waiting on mine. Signed up through a proxy as I'm in the UK.

Has anyone got one yet? I am waiting patiently but am anxiuous to get it?

I've gotten nothing yet. Still patiently waiting.
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still waiting

I wouldn't mind being a US citizen right about now...
The UK and Ireland really get shafted with this sort of thing Google Music, Voice, Hulu, Netflix...

Who else got invited to Google Music Beta?

From the e-mail I got from Google, I've aparently been invited because I own the Xoom 3g, and am currently paying for 3g service from Verizon.
But whatever the reason, I got the invite.
I still haven't recieved the update for my Xoom yet, and I don't think you can get the Music app in the app store until the update, so i've been forced to try the beta in "Browser" which is a bunk.
As far as desktop goes, it works well, but on the Xoom, it lags a little, and will only play the music if the tab for the player is open. (which really I guess is to be expected, and why there is an app for it.)
Regardless, it is quite simple to use, and in itself, is a very simple layout. There isn't really anthing special, it reminds me of itunes (as far as strictly listening to music, not including the store and all the extra jazz.) They have what they call "Instant Mixes" which is pretty much the genious mix in apple, except it will only create a 25 song playlist.
One nice thing about it, is whatever player you choose it to upload your songs with, it carries over the playlists.
There is a "New and Recent" section beside Album, Song, Genre, and Artist like on the Xoom. Also, a small but nice selection of free songs that you can choose to have imported into your cloud when you sign in the first time.
I really will have to wait till I can test the app to make any final decisions on this.
As far as I'm concerned, cloud based music storage is pretty much useless to me. I can survive with 5-10 gigs stored onto my Xoom that I can listen too without ever needing to connect to the internet. (I don't need to use my 10$ a gig data from verizon for something that should be free) Once we get our SD slot working, this will become especially true. It is cool to be able to have your music anywhere in the world, but not if you think that you have to pay Google for this service, then pay for the data while using the service.
But I will go at it with an open mind for anyone that would find this of interest, because well, I guess it's part my duty since I recieved an invite. If you also recieved an invite please let me know what you think about it.

I got in the beta as well. The biggest thing for me when it comes to cloud music is not worrying about transferring music to my devices or computers anymore. I'm always worried about backing up my music and syncing across all my computers. Now if I reformat any of my devices be it tablet, phone or laptop I can get my music from anywhere and redownload it if needed.
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Do you have the ability to invite others?
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Saintfyre said:
Do you have the ability to invite others?
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No, only google can invite.

It is weird... i got on the Music page before the keynote and signed up for the Beta with the same email as the one my Xoom is connected to and I still haven't gotten anything.... kinda sucks.... maybe that caused everyone to assume we were just another user instead of Xoom users

Handshake87 said:
It is weird... i got on the Music page before the keynote and signed up for the Beta with the same email as the one my Xoom is connected to and I still haven't gotten anything.... kinda sucks.... maybe that caused everyone to assume we were just another user instead of Xoom users
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See, I don't think you will get an invite just for owning a xoom..... Here is exactly how the e-mail inviting me was phrased (Please note, i did not sign up for an invite, i just got it)
Hello Motorola XOOM user,
We'd like to tell you about some changes to the Music player on your tablet. The latest app update now supports Music Beta, a new service from Google. As a Verizon Motorola XOOM user, you’ve been extended an early invitation to beta test this service.
Music Beta lets you store your personal music collection online and access it instantly without the hassle of wires or syncing.
Enjoy your music anywhere — listen on any web browser, your Motorola XOOM, or any other device running Android 2.2 or higher.
Save your favorite albums, artists, and playlists on your smartphone or tablet so you can keep listening even when you're not connected.
Create your own custom playlists or build them automatically from a single song.
Note also that is says Verizon Motorola XOOM user... I guess this could be explained by any 3g model, but I actually have my data active, so I imagined that's why I received the invite.

Saintfyre said:
Do you have the ability to invite others?
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Not that I can see. I have yet to receive the 3.1 update, but I received the invite, signed up, and also downloaded the updated Music app from the market. I haven't uploaded any songs yet, but I can stream the two dozen or so tracks they gave me for free. Works well, pretty simple, audio quality is actually pretty decent - on the Xoom speakers, haven't tested on my Sennheiser headphones though.

khov07 said:
Not that I can see. I have yet to receive the 3.1 update, but I received the invite, signed up, and also downloaded the updated Music app from the market. I haven't uploaded any songs yet, but I can stream the two dozen or so tracks they gave me for free. Works well, pretty simple, audio quality is actually pretty decent - on the Xoom speakers, haven't tested on my Sennheiser headphones though.
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Oh, so it's just an update to the stock music player I need?

I have active data on my 3G xoom w/ Verizon also, so it's weird they would pull random people, but I guess that may not be weird. I have 3.1 on my xoom after doing the force push update from BRD. I also have the new beta music app on both my tablet and my phone lol. I have not received an invite though...What I do like is the ability to get movies through the Android Market but I don't think that's part of this?
Oh well then

I pay for 3G service on my Xoom as well, and I haven't gotten an invite, or the dam update!
lol

Should be noted my 3g xoom has never had vzw service and I got the xoom invite email.
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Bauxite said:
Should be noted my 3g xoom has never had vzw service and I got the xoom invite email.
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Well I guess they're doing some kind of random invite...

So i guess a good question is, have any WiFi Xoom owners gotten the email with out requesting an Invite?

At I/O, Google said that Music was a beta program with a limited audience initially: all attendees got an invite. There are two components: the new player, and the backend service. I believe they are independent of one another, such that you can download the Music Beta app in the Market but still not be admitted to the beta of the service.
Apologies if this was all already obvious: I just wanted to clarify for folks in case it wasn't clear as there are a few moving parts.

sogrady said:
At I/O, Google said that Music was a beta program with a limited audience initially: all attendees got an invite. There are two components: the new player, and the backend service. I believe they are independent of one another, such that you can download the Music Beta app in the Market but still not be admitted to the beta of the service.
Apologies if this was all already obvious: I just wanted to clarify for folks in case it wasn't clear as there are a few moving parts.
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I believe you are correct. Anyone can download the updated Music app from the Market, but unless you got an invite and signed up, you can't use the whiz-bang features of the Music beta service.
On both my EVO and Xoom, I was able to update the app and signed into it thanks to the invite I received.

Ya I have activated 3g Xoom on Verizon so I am unsure as to WTF is going on lol

I have the 3G Xoom but do not pay for the service, and I've had it since day 1. I'm not rooted, and I have not received the 3.1 update yet.
I requested an invite for Music before the keynote Monday with my main gmail account. I have 2 other accounts tied to my xoom, but I initially signed into my xoom with my main account.
About 30 minutes ago, I got an invite to Music in one of the secondary accounts tied to my Xoom (one I did NOT request an invite with).
Currently uploaded about 500 songs, about 18k to go. This is exciting!
Now I just need my 3.1!

mixpix405 said:
I have the 3G Xoom but do not pay for the service, and I've had it since day 1. I'm not rooted, and I have not received the 3.1 update yet.
I requested an invite for Music before the keynote Monday with my main gmail account. I have 2 other accounts tied to my xoom, but I initially signed into my xoom with my main account.
About 30 minutes ago, I got an invite to Music in one of the secondary accounts tied to my Xoom (one I did NOT request an invite with).
Currently uploaded about 500 songs, about 18k to go. This is exciting!
Now I just need my 3.1!
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Well however they're doing it, I'm glad I got the invite as it works quite well. I don't know about other cloud services as I have not tried them, but the way all the music stored on the cloud and all that is stored on your XOOM blend together in the same app is sweet.
Unfortunately I am still waiting on my update. I just wanted to add that.

Got two invite e-mails (24 hours apart) so ok. But no 3.1 update.

mjpacheco said:
Got two invite e-mails (24 hours apart) so ok. But no 3.1 update.
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Can I have one?
Still waiting for invite and 3.1
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Exchange email client

I am still amazed that android email client requires encryption, Please get it right google.

dryspuri said:
I am still amazed that android email client requires encryption, Please get it right google.
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I dislike the inbox subfolders view on top. Should've been an option to disable this.

It's pretty bad the stock email app sucks for exchange. I use touchdown for exchange which works awesome. It's pretty expensive but I got it from amazon app store last year sometime when it was on sale for $7.
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