The recent Android 1.5 release (aka Cupcake) for the G1 and other Android devices introduced a couple of features that were fast becoming standard phone features, namely an on-screen soft keyboard and video recording. The rumors around this release started late last year with a few false predictions of it coming out in January. The [...]
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This morning it was reported that Google has removed all tethering apps from the Android Marketplace. I can’t say I agree with the decision, but it makes sense for the carriers to restrict this ‘feature’ within Android phones. I have mentioned in almost all of my posts on tethering how unlikely it would be for [...]
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Now that the Android Marketplace has been available for a couple of months, I thought it would be a good time for a round-up of the tether apps currently available. I have mentioned in an earlier post the types of tethering available and different configuration options with your G1 phone. I also wrote about the first [...]
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Last week Amazon.com dropped the T-Mobile G1 price to $98 with the purchase of a 2 year contract. Walmart.com was soon to follow with their own $98 price point. But they didn’t stop at just price, the Wal-Mart deal includes a free 4GB microSDHC card and reader. Another bonus is the free 2 day shipping.
Searching for the G1 [...]
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I bought my G1 late last year as part of an upgrade deal through T-Mobile. At the time I thought “Wow, what a deal for $199!!!” I ended up giving my Blackberry Curve to my wife and have cherished my G1 every since.
The problem with being an early adopter was that all of these cool new apps [...]
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I wrote an entry a couple weeks ago about how to tether your laptop to the G1 and Android to get Internet access. The method I described has you connect to the G1 over WiFi and uses an app called GWiFi. What I didn’t mention is that this also turns your G1 into a wireless [...]
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I mentioned in an earlier post the convenience of having your SMS message popup even when the screen is locked, well how about having the message spoken to you when it arrives? There is really no technical reason why it can’t come to fruition considering Android has a Text-to-Speech (TTS) app that can be downloaded [...]
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