After having acquired Divide, a company that helps users manage their work-life balance by creating containers for enterprise and personal content on Android phones, Google is now launching the Divide Productivity Preview on the Play store. The suite is at this time invite-only and integrates well with Android Lollipop thanks to a clean Material Design interface. The Design Productivity Preview could only be used at this time with the Android IT Preview Program, according to Google.
Divide Productivity Preview provides a complete set of apps for business email, calendar, contacts, tasks, downloads to get your job done with speed, simplicity and security. With your IT manager's support, Divide Productivity Preview is your gateway to your existing corporate Exchange/ActiveSync or Notes-compatible infrastructure.
And here are some of the productivity apps supported by the Divide Productivity Preview:
- Mail: S/MIME, HTML, gestures, flag messages for follow-up, out of office
- Calendar: Create/edit meetings, accept/decline invitations, highlight VIP calendar alerts
- Contacts: Corporate directory lookup, mark contacts as VIPs, export to personal address book
- Tasks: Set, view, edit, sort, delete tasks
- Downloads: Save, view and share attachments
Additionally, Google says you can "extend the power of Divide Productivity Preview by downloading the Chrome secure browser and Docs, Sheets and Slides."
Are you part of the preview program? Is Divide something you're looking forward to trying out to help balance work and life?
Source: Google
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Google launches invite-only Divide Productivity Preview
Looks like just another task list. Am I missing something?
Reread it.
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The entire boat....Go to the source; it's a mechanism for BYOD environments in which your private and work applications are segregated in different sandboxes via the profiles method rolled out in Lollipop; I figured they'd do something like that with this feature.
You get a managed device and unmanaged device living together on the same physical machine.
Really it's pretty genius imo
Can you send me an invite? davepruitt@gmail.com.
Hmmm... Who wants to be the one to sign him up for Scientology emails?
The only problem I have with using the same phone for work and home is this: how do you turn off calls to one while still receiving calls on the other? Like when I'm on call on the weekend, and want to sleep Sat afternoon because I have to do maintenance on production Sat night, how do I turn off all personal calls, while still allowing people at work to reach me? Some of them call from India and don't have caller ID attached, so whitelisting wouldn't work.
Google could go a LONG way in helping people like me by allowing two Google voice numbers to be routed to the same mobile phone. Hell, I would GLADLY pay for the privilege if it meant that I didn't have to carry around two phones anymore.
Amen, brother! That's one of the chief things keeping me from really adopting GVoice.
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Why can't you just use your regular cell phone number for personal and Google voice for work, or vice versa?
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Is it possible to completely silence calls to your personal # while allowing GV calls to come through?
Uhm... Just don't answer calls from work numbers or vice versa. Not answering the phone takes less effort than answering it.
Because once I'm woken up by a ringing phone, it usually takes me half an hour to go back to sleep. A scenario I'd rather avoid.
Get a dual SIM phone.
Is that a Note 4, running 5.0?
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That has to be a Note 4 running 5.0! Looks like it.
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Another invite only thing........ gay
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I'm getting pretty irritated with this invite only $hit