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Ice Cream Sandwich Running On A T-Mobile G1, Kind Of

David Beren — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:15:15 +0000

It's clunky, it's slow and you would not want to use it in real life but the fact that the talented folks at XDA-Developers have an Ice Cream Sandwich port up and running on a three year old T-Mobile G1 shows a lot of promise. It's performance is powered by an archaically sounding 528MHz single-core processor, however this shows that other old-school... Read more

Happy Monday: A Trip Down Memory Lane

David Beren — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:27:59 +0000

For Android fans old and new there should be a special place in your heart for the phone that started it all, the G1. The arguably poor design with difficult hand placement over the "bump" combined with what was considered a great keyboard made for an interesting handset that set us down a path some never thought would materialize as it did. No matter... Read more

Do Trademark Filings Give Away Some T-Mobile Secrets?

David Beren — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:20:37 +0000

We’re just going to piggyback off the most recent posts here and go for a trifecta on guessing just what T-Mobile has in store for us. Those fine folks at Androidguys did a little digging through recent US Trademark filings and came up with some interesting results: · Blaze - May 26th G1 Blaze - May 26th G1 Rocket - May... Read more

T-Mobile Phones, Hacking Edition

Andrew — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:29:37 +0000

DO AT YOUR OWN RISK! Everything listed in this post can pose a threat. Now, you shouldn't be too scared about that. There are people out there that do this every day. That being said, I will warn you again, proceed with caution. Many thanks to all the contributing developers at XDA Developers, you guys are great! Let's start off with... Read more

T-Mobile G1, The Original Android Phone Is Now Retired

David Beren — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:23:39 +0000

The T-Mobile G1 should hold a special place in the hearts of Android fans everywhere as we say goodbye to the phone that started it all. Our super forum posters are reporting that word has come down the G1 is now unavailable from both T-Mobile.com, My.T-Mobile as well as retailers everywhere. It’s a sad day as this phone needing little introduction to... Read more

12 Days After Launch, How Do You Feel About The Samsung Vibrant?

David Beren — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:00:30 +0000

The Samsung Vibrant has proven in less than two weeks to be one of the most highly rated and most talked about T-Mobile Android phone to date. With that in mind we’re doing our second poll in less than 72 hours to find out how you feel about the Samsung Vibrant, with almost two weeks of ownership under your belt. Was it love at first sight or did you... Read more

G1 and MyTouch Get FroYo, Kind of…

Andrew — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:22:59 +0000

Some said it couldn't be done, but the good people behind the famous CyanogenMod just took that as a challenge. This time they are serving up a nice helping of FroYo to all those rooted HTC built T-Mobile Android phones. CyanogenMod 6 will run on the G1, the MyTouch 3G and, of course, the Nexus One. This Mod will give you all the rooted goodness,... Read more

Verizon Now The Dominant Android Player, T-Mobile In Second Place?

David Beren — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:51:15 +0000

I suppose in hindsight I really shouldn’t have been as surprised as I was over the results of a recent study regarding Android usage. I would have thought that T-Mobile, as the originating Android carrier would have remained the dominant player in the game, but the handset is really the buying decision now, not the carrier. With that in mind, according... Read more

No Froyo for G1

Andrew — Fri, 21 May 2010 01:30:20 +0000

Warning: if you are looking for good news, you should probably find a different post. It's official, the G1 is basically dead, killed by Google themselves. The first Android phone's fate was decided during the fireside chat at Google IO today. The Android team straight out said that the G1 will not see 2.2. So, to all of those G1 users out there,... Read more

T-Mobile Rolls Out Voice Plus Beta For G1 Users

Stephen — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:54:08 +0000

Wow, quite a bit of G1 news this evening! Well, it's official, T-Mobile has started rolling out their Voice Plus Beta program for G1 owners. If you signed up for the beta, you should be receiving an e-mail very shortly to let you know that the program is now available to you. We should warn you, to install the application you will need to... Read more