Posted on 21 November 2008 by Shawn Brown
It looks like residents of the Philippines are going to be getting their hands on an Android-powered handset soon enough all thanks to Taiwanese firm HTC. Mark Sergio, HTC Philippines country manager, said that the company is ready to ship the G1 to customers after receiving a lot of inquiries about the device.
The company is still considering various ways to ...
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Posted on 20 November 2008 by Shawn Brown
Everybody who has the T-Mobile G1 can testify that the USB adapter needed for the 3.5mm headphone jack is a bit clunky and annoying. Well it sounds like T-Mobile has taken note of this problem and now has a fix for those who have not yet purchased the G1.
One of the largest complaints we have heard is the lack of ...
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Posted on 29 October 2008 by Shawn Brown
The first T-Mobile G1 has been unlocked thanks to the guys over at Unlock-TMobileG1.com. In honor of this we will be giving away 3 unlock codes for the T-mobile G1 in a community contest. This contest is open to any registered Android Community member.
Unlocking the G1 is very quick and easy, in fact anyone who can make a phone call ...
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Posted on 28 October 2008 by Shawn Brown
The other day we covered a story about the T-Mobile G1 update that was on TmoNews. We had originally reported that the update would be released to the public soon after they received their phone.
Distribution of the new update (RC28) was stopped on Friday afternoon after Google identified/confirmed a security issue with the browser that allowed for unwanted attacks on ...
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Posted on 28 October 2008 by Shawn Brown
A lot of people in China are getting desperate for a T-Mobile G1, so desperate in fact that they are buying the devices illegally from American consumers at a costly price. The T-Mobile G1 has not yet been released in any country other than the United States.
In China people are purchasing the T-Mobile G1 for about RMB 3,999 or ...
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Posted on 27 October 2008 by Shawn Brown
Somewhat believable rumors about Wal-Mart are flying around again, this one is about the arrival of the G1 at a cheaper price. The top ten Wal-Mart locations in each market will be getting the T-Mobile G1 on the 24th of November just in time for Christmas.
It comes as no surprise because big box stores such as Costco are already selling ...
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Posted on 25 October 2008 by Shawn Brown
With the T-Mobile G1 only being out for a few days, a group of security researchers have already found a serious flaw in the Android software by Google. It appears that the G1 is threatened by many of the same security threats that personal computer owners face. We are not surprised that something such as this was found in the ...
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Posted on 25 October 2008 by Shawn Brown
A while back we wrote about a story reported by Fool.com that told about T-Mobile selling 1.5 million pre-orders. It turns out that the numbers were just uneducated guesses made by a single party. The actual number could not be disclosed but it is reported to be more than 600,000.
HTC CEO Peter Chou told Mercury News, “We are very excited ...
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Posted on 16 October 2008 by Shawn Brown
There has been a lot of growth with Android Community the last few weeks. Our members have been eagerly anticipating the arrival of the first Android-powered handset the T-Mobile G1. The forum has just exploded with news today that the G1 has already been shipped and people may be receiving their G1 a little early.
We have been running several contests ...
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Tags: android, android phone, G1, G1-Accessories, G1-Cases, hands-on, htc, Review, smartphone, T-Mobile, T-Mobile-G1, with-Google
Posted on 15 October 2008 by Vincent Nguyen
October 16th, and we're finally allowed to tell you what we've wanted to say for the past week: the T-Mobile G1 is a very good cellphone indeed. The first handset commercially available to run Google's Android platform and, with the exception perhaps of the iPhone 3G, the most anticipate mobile device launch of the year, the HTC-made G1 has a ...
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