We’ve seen lots of devices meant to get you more battery hours for your iPhone. It was time someone invented power accessories for your G1 too. With this double charger you can simultaneously charge your G1 and a spare battery. That means you will have an extra battery to play with during those long days at the office. It’s just $17 but it will get you all the power that you need! Oh, make sure you get a second battery for your G1 too. That might be a little more expensive!

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It would be weird for you not to buy a white G1 because T-Mobile doesn’t have it in white yet. If you want one just get it no matter the color. However those of you that insist on getting a white G1 will be able to do so after Thanksgiving. That’s when T-Mobile might release it. People say it’s a white paint problem, although nothing is confirmed yet.

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Rumor has it Huawei will surprise us all next year by bringing new smartphones out on the market. Do you remember this year’s Smartphone Show in London? That’s where Huawei has joined the Symbian Foundation, being already a member of the Android Open Handset Alliance. I knew back then that something good will come out of this venture.

It looks like the first Huawei smartphone will be released sometime in the spring of 2009. Huawei isn’t necessarily on the top of the smartphone food chain since it has released only one smartphone until now, running on Windows Mobile. But their endeavor will definitely be a nice change for consumers.

We don’t have any design or features leaked yet but maybe the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress this month might bring us something Android-pretty to talk about.

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Here’s a weird but pretty big bug reported by Android users. Basically, at any time that you would happen to type the word “reboot” from your keyboard the Android device, the G1 will do exactly so, it will reboot itself. Firmware 1.0 TC4-RC29 or earlier is affected by the bug so watch out what you start typing. Besides the whole reboot thing you should also be aware that combination of “rm and rf” might trigger some responses from the G1.

If you got the RC30 upgrade for your G1, you might be safe, but you’d better test if, just to be sure.

People have been talking today about a possible future Android phone coming from AT&T. Soon people were saying next month such a handset might appear. But the truth is nowhere near. In fact no Google phone will be launched anytime soon. An article published on the San Francisco Chronicle site says:

De la Vega said AT&T continues to look at Google’s Android operating system but is not prepared to make any moves to carry any Android phones. He said the platform is still evolving and needs to open up even more to offer a wider array of non-Google applications.

So what do you say? Would you fancy the idea of an AT&T handset running on Android?

Before the iPhone 3G was launched we were already passing around rumors about its tethering abilities. After the phone was released we didn’t get any official tethering support although people have tried. Now the G1 is the latest hot phone and the tethering questions remains.

A Graham Stewart took the problems in his hands and made an Android proxy application which will tether your G1. You will be able to share your Internet connection with your computer via USB. The application works but it’s not officially recognized by Google or T-Mobile. Fortunately it’s not forbidden yet by neither of them.

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While the iPhone 3G hasn’t been unlocked yet, the G1 has. The G1 managed to survive for only a week and what a week it was. Now the open-source Android phone is open-carrier too. All you need is $22.99 and a G1 to work on.

The unlocked G1s have been reported to work in other networks but not everything is going as smooth as you might have suspected. Calls and SMS messages go through without any problems but logging to Gmail isn’t possible. That also means there’s no Android Market either. What do you think? Will you unlock yours? Watch the video above for more details!

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Asus seems ready to make its first Android phone. So far we know that Motorola wants in the Android business. Other manufacturers and carriers are toying with the idea too, so 2009 might be a great Android year.

Inside sources point to an Android-powered Asus release in the first half of 2009. The first Android handsets will arrive in Taiwan first but they are surely going to be released in other markets after. So watch-out everyone! Google is going to make a strong impression in 2009.

Will the G1 hit Walmart locations already? It would seem so. T-Mobile has just started to sell the devices out of its own stores and it already seeks to expand.

It seems that a deal between the two will get Android phones in the top 10 stores in every regional market. The phones might arrive as soon as November 24th in these Walmart stores and they might cost as low as $148.88 with a plan. So let me get this right, T-Mobile is willing to cut the price down and already move the G1 to other stores?

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While we heard Dan Hesse’s opinion on the Android OS yesterday, today we have time to focus on HTC’s CEO, Peter Chou, who also happens to be one of the founders of the company. He says that HTC will be shipping 600,000 G1 units this year. For 2008 he has an estimate so far but for 2009 he says that “in general, we think we can do more next year.”

What do you think T-Mobile? Are you ok with just 600,000 units sold? Do you plan on getting more G1s out there? And let’s not forget that the holiday season is going to be upon us soon!

The G1 is the hottest handset out there right now but it still has some problems. We’ve seen yesterday that POP3/IMAP mail doesn’t fully work and today we found out there’s a security flaw inside the web browser which could prove to be really harmful to your device.

A researcher, Charles A. Miller says the flaw could be exploited when a user goes to a malicious website. Malicious code can use the flaw to install software on the G1 which will do only bad things after. Google knows about this whole thing and it’s working on it. It’s been reported that there’s already a patch ready and T-Mobile G1 owners will get it OTA soon.

Remember when good old Steve Ballmer said the iPhone wasn’t going to make it? Well it looks like Sprint’s CEO, Dan Hesse decided he had to talk publicly against Google’s Android. He told the National Press Club in Washington that Android as it is right now isn’t good enough to put the Sprint brand on it.

But Android in the current form is good enough to sell in over 1.5 million units? What do you answer to that Mr. Hesse? What if Google made Sprint ungoogleable for a while in response to such accusations?

Did you get your T-Mobile G1 yet? Does it do POP3/IMAP email? People say it wouldn’t so I am just checking since I can’t be testing it hands on. People are talking about it on T-Mobile’s forum and it looks like they are reporting up to 95% connection errors when trying to check their email on the G1. Gmail is working fine apparently but others don’t.

T-Mobile is going to fix whatever problem has occurred, I am sure. After all checking emails while on the go is one of the reasons people buy smartphones in the first place! Tell us how G1 emailing works for you!

News about the T-Mobile G1 that runs Google Android operating system are pretty hot, in case you missed them check out the posts made today about the same subject: Virtual Keyboard in the horizon? Usable Without Navigation?

Another story related to cellphone is the new application made by MySpace, which will be released later this week and G1 owners will be able to download it on the Android Market. This is an expected move by MySpace, because they already have mobile platforms on other devices, like the Sidekick, and I bet many more will come in the near future.

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Take the iPhone for example. Great phone, large touchscreen, virtual keyboard, some people would have wanted a real keyboard. Now take the G1. Great phone, large touchscreen, full QWERTY keyboard. Some people want a virtual keyboard too.

Luckily a virtual keyboard is easier to set up and it looks like the G1 will get one. Android will release it sometime in the first three months of the year. By that time you can get used to the whole slide-out keyboard.

The T-Mobile G1 is the main phone of the day and lots of news are making their way to bloggers all over the world. People are talking about the Android update which will start rolling over-the-air tomorrow. Updates will continue on to October 31st.

The update will fix a bug related to Amazon songs and it will feature some light enhancements. We’ll know more about the G1 and its updates starting tomorrow!

There was mayhem everywhere when people knew of the Apple iPhone’s alleged kill switch. This allows Apple to remotely delete malicious or inappropriate applications on the iPhone. And that just won’t stand with most people.

Well, as it turns out, Google’s open-source Android comes with a similar feature, as reported by Computerworld. In its article, it is mentioned that Google expressly says that it might remotely remove an application from user phones. Google may discover a product that violates the developer distribution agreement, in such an instance, Google retains the right to remotely remove those applications from your device at its sole discretion
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Good news for all those people residing in the UK for the most part of their day who want a G1 phone from T-Mobile. Their Dream is arriving in the UK in about two weeks, on October 30.
Combi or Flext plans will be available to go with the G1.

The Combi plan will get you some 800 voice minutes, unlimited text messages and unlimited internet browsing via 3G HSPA. FlexT will get you 1,250 minutes of talktime or up to 2500 SMS messages per month. Or mix the two together. Unlimited but defined web browsing is also available. No need to tell you what the G1 can do, right?

Wow, I feel kinda dizzy! Motorola is really working on an Android phone, but we already knew that. But a social networking android smartphone. Isn’t it too complicated for Motorola?

Seriously speaking now, a job posting on Coroflot calls for an Interaction Designer “responsible for leading and actively participating in the concept, design, documentation and development of user interfaces for our mobile products including our new Android Social Networking SmartPhone.”

Well then, good luck Motorola! I really hope you will be able to pull this one of.

The HTC Touch HD is one of my favorite HTC devices. It has a 3.8 inch touchscreen phone which was recently released by HTC. People say that this Touch HD is being modeled to become an Android handset too for T-Mobile. It’s even referred to as the G2 although there’s nothing official to support these rumors.

With all this in mind I can’t help but think about HTC’s official Twitter from a few days ago which clearly said that the Touch HD is not officially coming to the USA. What do you think?