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T-Mobile Rolling out Android 1.5 at the end of next week

06 May 2009 by Staff Editor


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android-cupcake7This is what we’ve been waiting for fellow G1 users. T-Mobile will officially roll out G1 software updates at the end of next weekend, which includes Android 1.5.  Full press release below.

T-Mobile USA is excited to offer its T-Mobile G1 customers new software updates, including Android 1.5.  Starting at the end of next week, T-Mobile USA will begin rolling out Android 1.5 to T-Mobile G1 customers.  The over-the-air update, which all G1 customers should receive by the end of May, will provide customers with many new feature enhancements and updates, such as:

·         An on screen full QWERTY keyboard.
·         Video record and playback capabilities.
·         Easy uploading of photos to Picasa and videos to YouTube.

Additional details on Android 1.5 can be found at the T-Mobile G1 forum at http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/?category.id=Android or via the Android site: http://www.android.com/releases/.

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  1. ...or if you have root, you can install JesusFreke's cupcake, right now. It's here. If you don't know what root is for, I wrote a big long write-up here, with more in this thread.

    W
  2. *yawn*

    Weren't there a couple hundred threads spanning across 20 different Android forums about this very same thing... back in January?
  3. I think this time the date is official... sometime in may.
  4. Mothers Day? I'd say Memorials Day!


    ;-)))
  5. I hope its official they're going to get peoples hopes and not release like earlier in the year.
  6. Just to confirm, that here in the UK, I have received cupcake (6th May 2009).
  7. I recieved my update yesterday with all the cupcake features officially announced!!
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by lumpy View Post
    Just to confirm, that here in the UK, I have received cupcake (6th May 2009).
    Me too.
  9. This time, it would be the real deal. For people who don't want root, and don't appreciate being told to root every 4 seconds, this announcement couldn't come soon enough.
  10. Agreed SS. I rooted a month ago but didn't want to deal with the issues it presented. Switched back. I don't need tethering, and themes/widgets/etc. I can get with Open Home on my unrooted G1. I'm tired of people acting like people that don't root are less than them.

    Excited for Cupcake!
  11. Totally agree. These people who root think they're "Elite". lol. I don't need to root, my phone works just fine as it is, and I think I can manage to wait till next week to get this update.

    Every other thread...root root root. Pffttt..
  12. so once the update officially rolls out, does that mean we will be seeing a jf update for us rooted but non-adp users?
  13. SO now the Android will have a physical keyboard as well as an onscreen one... I will probably keep mine closed the whole time now.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by eRoc View Post
    Totally agree. These people who root think they're "Elite". lol. I don't need to root, my phone works just fine as it is, and I think I can manage to wait till next week to get this update.

    Every other thread...root root root. Pffttt..
    lol yea, you have to mod, a modded phone just to use market

    LOL!
  15. Anyway to do the manual update ? Last time I found a link that someone posted with an update.zip file..

    KBS
  16. I'm sure as soon as people start getting the update we'll get a link to the update.zip file. That's what I'm waiting for, too. Assuming I don't get the OTA update first, that is.
  17. LIKE ALWAYS !!!
    LATE !!!!!!!!!!!!
    SEND THE UPDATE ALREADY PLEASE!
    WITH THIS UPDATE G1.ALMOST PERFECT!! TO MAKE IT PERFECT>>>>>>>>> JAVA INTEGRATED WITH BROWSERRRRRRR!!
  18. lol, you didn't see this coming? My wife mowed the lawn today because I bet her that we wouldn't get the update last week as announced. Had we received she had massages all week this week lol
  19. How is it late? They said it'll be done rolling out by the end of May. It's the 17th. Cool your jets!
  20. done with this madness; black g1 for sale; excellent condition; see listing in abay.
  21. I really hope this update acts as a Darwinian "thinning of the herd," I really do.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by SilleeString View Post
    I really hope this update acts as a Darwinian "thinning of the herd," I really do.
    One could only hope
  23. So for the people with rooted phones, once the cupcake update releases will those phones still work? Or how is that going to work?
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