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!

via netimes

Tags: Android, battery, G1, Mobile News, T-Mobile, T-Mobile

This isn’t something we weren’t expecting. T-Mobile has increased their wireless data prices for smartphones users. Unlimited data that used to cost $19.99 per month will cost $24.99 in the future. And there’s one more thing. It’s not unlimited anymore, it’s capped at 400 SMS or MMS messages. Unlimited data costs now $34.99 a month. That’s besides what you already pay for your Voice plan.

Getting a G1 will get you a default $24.99 data plan.
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Tags: Data plans, G1, Mobile News, Portable Devices, T-Mobile, T-Mobile

Well we’ve been talking about a white G1 from T-Mobile and it seems it’s available already finally in T-Mobile stores. Some stores have the white model besides the black and brown ones but you should check them yourself as not all T-Mobile location have the new colored Android phone.

via BGR

Tags: G1, Mobile News, T-Mobile, T-Mobile, white

Remember the launch date of the T-Mobile G1? Everyone noticed how the first Android phone was promised to have access to lots of Amazon tracks and despite all that it failed to show a 3.5mm adapter. It looks like that whole problem has been finally solved. New G1s will get a 3.5mm headphone adapted for the ExtUSB port the phone comes with. That means you can get your headphones plugged into that free-of-charge adapter for some better quality music. What do you say? Will that make you buy a G1 today or are you sticking with the Storm?

via Engadget

Tags: 3.5mm, G1, Mobile News, Storm, T-Mobile, T-Mobile

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.

via Engadget Mobile

Tags: Android, G1, Google, HTC, Mobile News, T-Mobile, T-Mobile, white

As the G1 runs the Android open-source OS, trying to jailbreak the phone seems rather silly. But apparently some clever people went ahead and pulled it off. Jailbreaking the G1 means you can install any application you want without being restricted to what’s officially supported.

But don’t worry sports’ fans! T-Mobile strikes back. The new firmware update, RC30 takes care of the whole jailbreaking thing! RC30 will block that telnetd which was used to get root access which means you won’t be able to do exactly anything with your G1. Anything that HTC, T-Mobile or Google wouldn’t want you to do. Here’s what Google said:

We’ve been notified of this issue (Jailbreaking of Android) and have developed a fix. We’re currently working with our partners to push the fix out and updating the open source code base to reflect these changes.

Your move jailbreakers!

Tags: G1, Google, Google, HTC, jailbreak, Mobile News, Mobile Software, T-Mobile, T-Mobile

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.

Tags: Android, bug, firmware, G1, Google, Mobile News, software

The Fuze is on its way and you’re going to see it soon in an AT&T store. The HTC slider will arrive on November 11 and it will cost $499 when chosen without a contract or $299 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a two-year contract. What do you think about the pricing? Isn’t it too expensive? Even with a contract you get a smartphone which is more expensive than the G1 or the upcoming Storm.

Tags: At&T, At&T, Fuze, G1, HTC, HTC, Mobile News, Storm

The G1 is going places! After being announced for the American and UK market, the phone will make it’s way to China. HTC will take the G1 to the Asian and Pacific markets and China will see it by July 2009. We’d be curious to see if the G1 gets the same treatment the iPhone got. HTC doesn’t have an official confirmation of a G1 smartphone specifically designed for the Chinese market but I’m sure they’d love to get there before Apple does.

via Engadget

Tags: Apple, China, Dream, G1, HTC, HTC, Mobile News

If you happened to pre-order your G1 you might remember how T-Mobile offered a free 3G network data trial coming with it. And here’s the bad news, or actually partially bad news. T-mobile has discontinued all that data once the trial period was over. That means you might have found your G1 without a 3G data connection ready to respond to your every day internet needs.

T-Mobile wanted its G1 customers to sign up for unlimited data plans while customers assumed that T-Mobile will turn their trial in a paid data plan. Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups and that’s why your phone doesn’t have a data plan. And I’m sure no one will even think about buying a device like the G1 if they didn’t need it for some heavy Internet usage.

As I said, partially bad news. Call T-Mobile and tell them you want the data plan and you will surely get it!

via HTC Source

Tags: data, data plan, G1, Google, Mobile News, Mobile Software, T-Mobile, T-Mobile

Did you get your G1 upgrade yet? Is T-Moblie’s network really lagging? Well then you can grab the download manually. If you have the slightest idea of what you are doing then follow the steps below. And, as always, be sure you back up first. Also you should be aware that T-Mobile doesn’t support this kind of firmware update. If things will go wrong, you will have a G1 that’s not working, and you will have to wait for a while to have your handset fixed.

Follow the steps after the break and tell us if it all works out for you.

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Tags: firmware, G1, Mobile News, Mobile Software, T-Mobile, T-Mobile, Update

Well here’s a surprise! After we’ve seen Sprint’s CEO saying that the current Android device can’t live up to his expectations, we have Verizon declaring that the G1 isn’t good enough either. Verizon wants its people ready to answer customers should those ask the G1 question… Why not get a G1 from T-Mobile instead of a Verizon phone?

Read the reasons below. Among those we have “super-limited 3G coverage”, “music downloads via Amazon MP3 limited to WiFi”. Well then I wonder if T-Mobile is going to go through the similar trouble when the Storm comes!

via EngadgetMobile

Tags: G1, Research In Motion, RIM, Sprint, Sprint, Storm, T-Mobile, T-Mobile, Verizon, Verizon

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?

via Engadget Mobile

Tags: Android, G1, Google, Mobile News, T-Mobile, T-Mobile, Walmart

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!

Tags: Android, G1, Google, HTC, HTC, Mobile News, T-Mobile, T-Mobile

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.

Tags: Android, G1, HTC, HTC, Mobile News, security, T-Mobile, T-Mobile

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!

Tags: Android, G1, gmail, Google, IMAP, Mobile News, Mobile Software, POP3, T-Mobile

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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Tags: Android, Cell Phones, G1, MySpace, T-Mobile, T-Mobile

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.

Tags: Android, G1, Google, T-Mobile, T-Mobile

A day after the G1 has been released to the masses and it looks like it’s usable without any T-Mobile activation. Simply insert a T-Mobile SIM and go through the phone setup process. You might end up with a partially usable phone. There’s full network access reported without voice call support. This is still a partially confirmed rumor, so we’ll present more details when we get them. Stay close by with the G1 in your hand!

Tags: activation, G1, Google, Mobile News, Mobile Software, T-Mobile, T-Mobile

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!

Tags: Android, G1, Google, microsoft, OTA, T-Mobile, Update