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 18 November 2008 by Shawn Brown
With all the recent advancements we have seen lately closing the gap between the T-mobile G1 and Apple’s iPhone, there is yet another coming through the wood work. Reports are coming in that the T-Mobile G1 is technically capable of having multi-touch. Apple fanboys now have less of an argument when it comes to comparing the two.
An intelligent coder, who ...
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Posted on 17 November 2008 by Shawn Brown
This morning at Adobe’s MAX event, Andy Rubin made an appearance and had a chance to show a brief demo. Do we even have to say what it was he was doing there? Here is a hint, he was doing a demo with the beloved T-Mobile G1.
Andy Ruben has officially shown that Flash can run on Android. It is one ...
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Posted on 16 November 2008 by Shawn Brown
This week a very strange bug was found in the Android software that could potentially cause problems. The bug takes all your keystrokes and secretly sends them to the root shell as commands with the highest user privileges. The bug was found when someone was typing the word “reboot” in a text message and ended up rebooting their G1.
Mozilla made ...
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Posted on 12 November 2008 by Shawn Brown
PhoneFusion today announced their Fusion Voicemail Plus service for Android Smartphones at the Under the Radar: Mobility event. This is fantastic news for those who went from owning an iPhone to the T-mobile G1. PhoneFusion offers services that their existing customers enjoy so much that they decided to bring them to Android.
Visual voicemail is an extremely useful service, that allows ...
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Posted on 11 November 2008 by Shawn Brown
iSuppli estimates that the G1 is made with $143.89 worth in hardware costs. iSuppli has done a virtual teardown of the T-mobile G1 and come of with a Bill-on-Materials (BOM) required to construct the handset. It looks like it would be more worth it to just go out and but the phone rather than build it yourself.
The Mobile Handset Cost ...
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Posted on 05 November 2008 by Shawn Brown
It looks like members of the XDA Developers forum have just found a way to gain root access to root of the T-mobile G1. There apparently is a loop hole in the PTerminal application that grants access.
Right now you can download the PTerminal application from the Android Market. We are told you can use it to start a telnet connection ...
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Posted on 04 November 2008 by Shawn Brown
From the looks of It someone over at Graha has figured out a way to share internet connection with your computer. This is still not an official way to tether your G1, but it shows progress.
This process is still in the experimental stages, users should do this at their own risk. First you must download the Android Proxy app from ...
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Posted on 29 October 2008 by Vincent Nguyen
There's now living proof that Wal-Mart will be offering the T-Mobile G1. Android Community member alpinestar snapped a couple of shots of printed material along with a dummy unit of the G1 at a local Wal-Mart. We'd speculated that Wal-Mart would start selling the G1 today, but it looks like we might be a couple of days off.
According to the ...
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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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