My TouchPad Today: Burger King Delivers... the Mail!

Back in July I did a post about how I was unable to access/synch my email on my TP via the brand new free WiFi at my local Burger King.

Since that time, my morning routine has changed a bit so the email problem there was forgotten in the shuffle of real-world life and life at the TP/tablet buffet table.

Now, in the past week I had occasion to visit that BK to start my day and found that the email problem no longer exists.

Me being me, my first thoughts were, "How could this be?What changed? Was it a fix at BK... or a TP update that resolved the problem? I have to know!"

Once my fever broke, I got a refill of my Diet Coke, grabbed a handful of napkins and moved on as quickly as possible. I had something more important to deal with that morning... Just about anything else!



This post was written on my TouchPad


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E-Mail Access Problem at Local Burger King

The e-mail access/synching problem with my Touchpad via the new free wifi hotspot at a local Burger King still lives from last week... and is also present on my Pre2!

What seems to be happening is that I can connect and surf the web successfully, but any attempt to check my email just goes through the motions and does not actually send or receive any messages.

I haven't encountered this problem scenario -- yet -- at any other wifi hotspots.

Does anyone out there have the technical answer for what's happening here?

No pressure, but the fate of the free world does depend on this being solved.

E-Mail Account Synching

The past couple of mornings at my breakfast hangout, I've experienced some problems with my e-mail synching correctly between my Pre2, TouchPad and GMail. Then, later in the day at various other locales, all is well... Hhhmmm.

A little bit of playing around with my devices is leading me to point a finger more at the new, free wifi service at my local Burger King than at the TouchPad. It appears that the hotspot isn't fully "acknowledging' the acceptance of their TOS screen, then not letting the mail app do a "proper" synch with GMail. It "goes through the motions", but no synch actually takes place.

Let's see what happens with this in the longer term...