G1 Apps News and Reviews of Applications for the T-Mobile G1 - Google Android Phone

Michael Martin of GoogleAndBlog has some exciting news for those of us who are hungry for a little cupcake action on our G1 handsets. Michael spoke to a ’senior G1 PDA specialist’ at T-Mobile who has assured him that the ‘RC31′ update of android (which includes all sorts of lovely features such as an on-screen keyboard) will be pushed to G1 owners’ handsets by the end of January as an over the air update.

This will come as welcome news to many of us G1 owners, who have been waiting patiently for a way to send text messages while driving with our knees and eating a burger with our ’spare’ hand.

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Navigation software company Alk showed a t-mobile G1 running their popular CoPilot live software at the recent CES show. Although not available at this stage on the app market, no doubt it will become available as soon as paid apps show up. For more on this see Navigadget’s story Read More…

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Rumors abound once again of Dell’s entry into the smartphone space. Nilay from Engadget noted that many Dell representatives at their Adamo press event were toting the ol’ Google G1. Read more over at Engadget

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HTC’s 2009 lineup has leaked onto the web, bringing with it much speculation about which models will become which phones. There’s strong suggestions that the “Sapphire 2.0″ will become the new t-mobile G2. One would assume this phone will run the cupcake version of android with an on-screen keyboard.

Check out the details at TmoNews Read More…

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Here’s picture proof, as such, of my G1 running 3G on the 3 network in Australia.

All that was required was to unlock the phone, and add the 3 mobile internet APN to the phone’s settings - as simple as adding a new APN with ‘name’ and ‘apn’ set to ‘3netaccess’ - I’m yet to add the gprs and mms APNs but they are just as easy. Once I’d done that, I set up my gmail account and it ran fine from the get-go. Everything works including compas mode street view. I’m glad I waited and bought the UK Version!

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I’ve recieved my long-awaited G1 from the UK, I believe it was the third to become available on eBay UK and the first that I could convince the seller to ship to Australia.

The good news is that I successfully unlocked it with the service at http://www.unlock-tmobileg1.com/ and it is FULLY WORKING with 3G on the 3 network in Australia.

More to come in the morning! Read More…

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Finally, the G1 has been probed, in a naughty way! You can now ‘jailbreak’ your G1 - giving you root access to the device. There check out the how to here at androidcommunity. Read More…

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EA Games have released both Tetris and Monopoly - two of the most popular games in the history of humankind and nerdkind, for Android. These magical pieces of software are available from eamobile.com at a reasonable price tag of US$7.99 each. Don’t expect to see them in the Android marketplace though. It’s great to see big players in the mobile gaming market like Electronic Arts, coming out with Android versions of these classic favorite games.

So what are you waiting for? go buy Tetris for your t-mobile G1! Just don’t buy it from Handango where it’s almost twice the price. Read More…

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Compare everywhere is an awesome app that takes a simple idea and executes it brilliantly. With the current financial crisis (ooh topical) hitting everyone’s hip pockets, this app is not only cool, it’s timely. The idea is you can scan a barcode from any product and Compare Everywhere will search online and LOCAL stores to find you the BEST price.

Compare everywhere will also pull up product reviews, related movie or music clips for your viewing pleasures. Found a great price? it’ll tell you how to get to the store too! It’s another program which must employ a factory of magic special monkeys somewhere.. how else would it work? I simply do not know, as I am only human.

Check out compare everywhere now at the Android Market! Read More…

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Our friends over at InvisibleSHIELD have released an awesome full-phone protection kit for the T-mobile G1. Not just a simple screen protector, this kit will scratch-proof your entire phone. We like it so much we made a page for it! G1 Screen Protectors (Ok so we make a couple bucks if you buy em too!) Click the banner below for full details.

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