We’re days away from the big election day, November 4 and Google used the opportunity to launch a mobile voting locator tool, available online at m.google.com/elections. Also, the tool can be sent to your handset by accessing this link. Using Google’s tool you’ll find the voting location of any registered user simply by entering his/her...
The G1 phone will start selling this Wednesday at a discounted price, according to statements from within Wal-Mart. Not the most glamorous beginning for Google’s phone, but surely an accessible one over US territory. How can we be picky on the store as long as the G1 handset will be selling for a discount price so soon since its release? The device...
T-Mobile G1 has just been unlocked and all in some easy steps which take no more than a few seconds. The phone was already running on Google’s open source platform, but now it got even easier to adapt to user needs, as changing carrier has never been simpler. 1. Insert friends activated T-mobile SIM into G1 along with battery 2. Power on and wait...
And what a nice present for the beginning of next year it will be! Don’t get us wrong, old fashioned QWERTY keypad is great, but sometimes touchscreen can be an even better solution. Many users that got to try out T-Mobile G1, the smartphone using Android platform, complained about the fact that they have to slide out the QWERTY keypad every time...
Google has just announced the mobile version of Gmail, now gone 2.0 for J2ME and BlackBerry phones. The software engineers tried to recreate the entire client, in order to push the processing to the background and improve caching. Among the features of mobile Gmail 2.0 there’s the multiple accounts management that allows you to switch between...
Yes, what are you waiting for? The entire Android source code has just been released. This means that there are many people out there in hold of it and on their way to developing their own handsets using Google’s platform. The source code that is now available for everyone contains core components such as the bootloader, graphics and speech-recognition...
If only it was as easy as that! Motorola takes its time before unveiling its attempt of bringing out a phone using Android operating system developed by Google. Such a device will be out little before next year’s second half. Motorola is loosing points on the phone market and desperately needs some fresh products, as the RAZR phone had a reign for...
Previous reports regarding the sales figures of the T-Mobile G1 were greatly exaggerated, one might say, partially quoting Mark Twain and Steve Jobs. 1.5 million pre-orders was a fishy number from the get-go, specially if you remember that the mighty iPhone, just launched in 20 countries sold about 1 million units in its first weekend. We’re...
