T-Mobile G1 Android Phone is I4U Gift Guide Tip #92

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The first Google Android smartphone, the T-Mobile G1 completes our Top 10 Mobile Phone Gift Guide 2008. I have hesitated a bit to recommend the HTC G1 as a gift as Android is rather early stage and you could call the G1 a project. On the other hand it is one of the few things you can get in on at the ground level. It is new and promising as the Adobe Flash Player 10 running on Android showed impressively today.
The T-Mobile G1 is a great gift for early adopters, open source fans and Google fans. Read more

Posted on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Video of Adobe Flash 10 running on Android T-Mobile G1 Google Phone

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Adobe showed at the Adobe MAX 2008 developer conference Flash 10 running on Android. See a video of full flash running on the T-Mobile G1 below.
The Apple iPhone might never get Adobe Flash because it would impact Apple's software control over the iPhone. See this new Wired article about this topic. This is a real disadvantage for the iPhone as Flash is very popular on the web especially for video playback and online games. Read more

Posted on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:32:43 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

G1 Owners got Android OS RC30 Update

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The T-Mobile G1 got jailbroken last week and developers can get root access to the Android file system rather easily. Google acted and already released now an OTA update for the T-Mobile G1 to fix this hole.
Android OS RC30 Update is now the latest OS version for G1 users. Read more

Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

T-Mobile G1 Android Apps available on Handango

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There is the Android Market, but there are also other App stores now offering applications for the Android smartphones like Handango.
Unlike the iPhone where Apple has everything under their control, the Android eco system is a bit more open. Tetris from EA Mobile for the G1 sells for instance for $7.99.

The Google operated Android Market has about 170 apps right now. Handango offers 41 apps for the G1 right now. Read more

Posted on Sat, 1 Nov 2008 06:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Asus develops Google Android Phone

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The Google pushed Android mobile phone platform is getting broad support from mobile phone makers. Now Asus is also working on an Android phone to be released in the first half of 2009.
Asus recently introduced the Asus P552w Glide touch-screen smartphone. This Windows smartphone is already a decent attempt by Asus to make some noise in the smartphone sector. Read more

Posted on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:57:02 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Motorola says Jha to Android, Simpler Designs and Job Cuts

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The WSJ has a piece on the new Motorola co-chief executive Sanjay Jha and his pursuit of making the Motorola mobile unit successful again.
Mr. Jha's plan includes focusing on Android phones, and two other software platforms. He needs to cancel four others Motorola has supported so far. This will lead to scrap dozens of cell phone designs that are currently under development leading to many delays for those who actually still wait for Moto phones. Read more

Posted on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:54:54 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Motorola Android Phone rumored for Q2 2009 Release

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The T-Mobile G1 is the first Google Android phone, but that doesn't mean that there will be plenty more in 2009. BusinessWeek reports about Motorola's efforts to release an Android smartphone in 2009. With the rumored Q2 release Motorola will most likely be rather late with their Android phone.

Motorola has apparently been showing specification sheets and images of the Android phone to carriers over the last 2 months (c'mon! Somebody leak it already). Read more

Posted on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:27:28 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

HTC Touch HD rumored to be next Android Phone T-Mobile G2

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The HTC Touch HD has many, including me, already excited as it features this amazing 3.8 inch screen with 800x480px resolution. A rumor sprung up that HTC is working to bring Android onto the HTC Touch HD.
Android fans already named the rumored phone T-Mobile G2. For early adopters the HTC Touch HD would be a boon, as it outperforms the iPhone 3G in all dimensions. Besides the screen the HTC Touch HD features a 5MP camera, 2nd VGA camera, GPS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. Read more

Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

T-Mobile G1 Android Phone already sold 1.5 million Units?

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We already reported that pre-orders for the first Android smartphone are very strong. Now Fool.com puts a number on how well the T-Mobile G1 pre-orders are actually going. If the number is correct, early adopters already ordered 1.5 million T-Mobile G1 phones. It looks like the Google controlled Open Source Phone is off to a great start.
I am still not convinced that the T-Mobile G1 is ready for the mainstream smart phone user. Sales could drop as quickly as the downloads did for the Google Chrome browser. Read more

Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:27:29 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

PAC-MAN Available for Android G1 Device

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PAC-MAN was one of the early arcade games that helped spawned gaming. The game was simple with a little yellow cheese wheel, some floating ghosts, and mazes. The game proved popular and was one of the titles that drove gamers to the Atari console and even spawned its own cartoon show.

Namco has announced that the game is available for the new Android powered G1 smartphone from T-Mobile. The best news is that you don’t have to raid your piggy bank for quarters. On the G1, the game has three control methods: swipe mode with control by swiping a finger, track mode using the track ball and accelerometer mode controlled by moving the phone. The game retails for $9.99. Read more

Posted on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:57:48 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

T-Mobile G1 Android Phone Officially Announced

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T-Mobile officially announced the first Android powered mobile phone yesterday called the G1. The smartphone uses the new Google Android OS and features a QWERTY keyboard. The phone promises a great web surfing experience with access to Google Maps Street View, Gmail, YouTube, and more.

Internet access is via T-Mobile's 3G and EDGE networks. The G1 will go on sale on October 22nd for $179 with a 2-year customer agreement. UK Android fans will be able to get the phone in November with the rest of Europe getting the handset in 2009. Read more

Posted on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:55:54 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Google Android Phone T-Mobile G1 to be priced at $199

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As reported the first Android Mobile phone will be unveiled at an event on the 23rd by T-Mobile. The Wall Street Journal reports that their sources tell them that the first Android powered smart phone G1 would sell for $199.
The price is a pretty safe guess since the iPhone 3G sells for the same price and there is no way the Google phone can be more expensive if it wants to have a chance. Read more

Posted on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:30:27 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

First Android Phone G1 debuts next Week from T-Mobile

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T-Mobile sent out invitations for an event to announce the first Android based mobile phone on September 23rd.
The WSJ reports that the T-Mobile Android phone will go on sale late October.
The T-Mobile G1 is supposedly the name of the HTC made phone. As reported the G1 passed the FCC as HTC Dream a couple weeks ago. Read more

Posted on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:02:32 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

T-Mobile to offer Android Smartphone soon: Sources

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FRANKFURT/DUESSELDORF (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile unit is set to start selling a mobile phone based on Google Inc's Android software within weeks, according to people familiar with the matter.
"T-Mobile and Google will be making an announcement this month in New York City," two people told Reuters on Wednesday, adding Sept 23 was a likely date for the announcement.
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Posted on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:47:50 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Android Market to take on iPhone App Store

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It was clear that the Google Android platform would see some kind of platform to offer applications from developers to Android users. The Android team revealed some early details of the Android Market yesterday.
The Android Market is an open content distribution system that will help end users find, purchase, download and install various types of content on their Android-powered devices.

Developers will be able to make their content available on an open service hosted by Google that features a feedback and rating system similar to YouTube. Google chose the term "market" rather than "store" because they feel that developers should have an open and unobstructed environment to make their content available. I think they chose market so they do not sound like a copycat of the Apple iTunes App Store. Read more

Posted on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Android 0.9 SDK beta released

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Google announces the new Android 0.9 SDK beta. The new Android beta SDK that Google has released is the first big step on the SDK's road to compatibility with 1.0.
Since this is a beta release, applications developed with it may not quite be compatible with devices running the final Android 1.0. However, the APIs are now pretty stable and we don't expect any major changes. Read more

Posted on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

HTC Dream Android Phone appears FCC approved

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The HTC Dream Android Phone gets Wi-Fi approved by the FCC and with that we get a look at some schematics of the Google Phone.
The HTC DREAM (DREA100) is rumored to be offered by T-Mobile USA still this fall, amidst earlier rumors of Android delays.
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Posted on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:32:39 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

T-Mobile to offer first Android Smartphone

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(Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone based on Google Inc's Android software, the New York Times reported, citing people briefed on the company's plans.
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Posted on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:38:35 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

HTC Google Android still on Track for Q4

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In June the WSJ reported about some Android delays that would push the release of Android phones into 2009. Digitimes reports that HTC is still on track to ship Google Android mobile phones in Q4 of 2008 to carriers.

Even if HTC is shipping Android phones, it might still take carriers some time to actually get these phones into stores. Read more

Posted on Fri, 1 Aug 2008 06:16:36 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Taiwanese Ministry wants Google Android Test Center in Taiwan

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The Department of Industrial Technology (DOIT) under Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs is trying to get Google to setup an Android certification center in Taiwan to speed up development.

Android is said to be delayed according to a WSJ report from this week. Read more

Posted on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:04:49 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Nokia opens up Symbian to compete against Google Android

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Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DOCOMO announced today their intent to unite Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) to create one open mobile software platform.

To enable the Foundation, Nokia today announced plans to acquire the remaining shares of Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own and then contribute the Symbian and S60 software to the Foundation. Read more

Posted on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:44:02 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr