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T-Mobile G1 (Android Phone) Video Review
As a compliment to our in-depth review of the T-Mobile G1, the Break it Down Blog has also put together an extensive, 4-part video review of the T-Mobile G1 for you as well. The reason we complimented the original review of the G1 with a video review is because buying a cell phone is hard, buying [...]
Continue reading...T-Mobile G1 (Android Phone) Review
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Update #1: We have also put up a 4-part T-Mobile G1 video review for readers as well. Summary [7.5 out of 10] The T-Mobile G1 is an excellent “first-mover” Android-based phone from T-Mobile and is truly a “Google Phone”. If you are already have most of your life on Google through one of their many handy and [...]
Continue reading...Massive Confusion Over T-Mobile G1 Data Plan “Messages”
Monday, November 24, 2008
There seems to be a significant amount of confusion online over the terms of the T-Mobile G1 $24.99/mo data plan; more specifically, what constitutes a “message” as described in their FAQ (seen above). At first hint, anyone that heard they have a “400 message” limit would assume that means a “text message” - as it has [...]
Continue reading...How to Use T-Mobile $20 BlackBerry EDGE Data Plan with Android G1 Phone
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Update #2:As a heads up to anyone wanting to try this out, please read this post first before continuing. As you may know the new T-Mobile G1 Android phone is out, and requires some potentially expensive-ass data plans to function fully ($24.99 for unlimited “data”, but 400 messages including “SMS, IM and email” or $34.99 for [...]
Continue reading...Motorola Adopts Google Android and Windows Mobile Exclusively
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Up until this point, Motorola has been shipping millions of devices on it’s custom MOTOMAGX Mobile Linux platform as well as the Symbian UIQ platform. After announcing some disappointing 3Q losses, Motorola announced plans to move their entire device line to Google’s Android and Windows Mobile platforms exclusively, discontinuing development and support for the MOTOMAGX platform [...]
Continue reading...Hackers Already Working on Hacking T-Mobile G1
Friday, October 24, 2008
BoingBoing reports that folks on Freenode’s #android IRC channel are already getting down and dirty with the device, trying to unlock access to some of the device-level functions (like GPS) that currently require signed code to access: I hacked my camera’s firmware manually by using an exploit to cause it to execute arbitrary code - and [...]
Continue reading...T-Mobile G1 Android 1.1 Update Tomorrow
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
For all the 10 trillion people that got T-Mobile G1 phones today, you will have an Android 1.1 update pushed out to you over the data network tomorrow. We have no idea how this will work for folks that are still in non-3G areas, it’s possible the phone will detect no 3G connection and prompt [...]
Continue reading...No HTC Touch HD for the US, Just the T-Mobile G1 and Beyond
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
As we move into the fall the announcements of mobile devices are going to start leaking out of our ears… especially sexy, Christmas-fodder devices. A lot of folks a few months ago were waiting for HTC’s next “Sexy device” after the HTC Touch ended up sucking balls with slow performance, crappy software and not the greatest [...]
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Monday, December 15, 2008
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