Wow! Who’d have thought that the second company to come up with a phone that can run on the Google Android OS isn’t any of the ones we’ve mentioned before? Not LG or Samsung or Asus or Nokia or Motorola, but the little known zzzPhone.

continue reading "zzzPhone Second Entry in the Google Android Market"

A rumor floating around that the T-Mobile G1 has multi-touch capability hidden in there somewhere is rumor no longer. A developer has hacked the underlying code of the Android OS to show us that the G1 can indeed be further developed to have multi-touch capabilities.

continue reading "Multi-Touch T-Mobile G1 Capability Proven"

After yesterdays collection of leather cases for the T-Mobile G1 Google Android handset, here’s the list of accessories for the device also known as the HTC Dream here in Mr. Gadget Australia. First up is the car charger that plugs into a car’s cigarette lighter for some in-car charging.

continue reading "Mr.Gadget T-mobile G1 HTC Dream Google Android Accessories"

Because we’re sure many of you got the T-Mobile G1 through one conduit or another that’s available in Australia, we got a few accessories for the G1 available right here in Mr. Gadget Australia. First off are the cases to protect your new Google Android baby.

continue reading "Mr.Gadget T-Mobile G1 HTC Dream Leather Cases"

Just a few days ago, the T-Mobile G1 got jailbroken, removing limits imposed upon an already open-source operating system. Since it IS open-source, it was easier for hackers to get through the inner workings of the phone and work on a jailbreak.

continue reading "Google Releases Patch to Re-Lock Jailbroken G1 Handsets."

I say train because the number of handset manufacturers announcing their intent to come up with their own devices carrying the Google Android OS can only increase in time. After Samsung, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Hop-on, OpenMoko and any other we might have missed, comes Huawei.

continue reading "Huawei to Join the Google Android Train"

The fellas at Brighthand have done it again with their exhaustive review of the T-Mobile G1. Included in the review are some informative videos and photos of mobile dubbed the ‘Googlephone’.

Their review supports some of the sentiment I shared in my article entitled “Why the iPhone 3G is better than the T-Mobile G1“. It’s a version 1.0 device which means that it’s new and there’s a lot of room for polishing up. Whereas the iPhone 3G was a second iteration and incorporated almost 1 years worth of feedback, bug-fixes and improvements (iPhone version 1 was released in June 2007).

continue reading "T-Mobile G1 Review : the lowdown on the Googlephone"

You’d think that with details about it leaking all over the internet, that Motorola’s Android-based phone would come soon. It seems that even the purported Asus Android-based phone would come even earlier than Motorola’s.

continue reading "Motorola Android-Based Phone Would Wait ‘Til Holidays 2009"

Local electronics manufacturer Kogan, announced plans to make a Google Android-based phone to be distributed in the country. The small online-based company orders its products straight from manufacturers in China, which are made to its specifications and cater to its needs.

Kogan’s Google Android phone “would look similar to the iPhone” with a touch screen panel, Bluetooth, GPS, trackball, WiFi, and NO built-in keyboard. It will be available in the country on December 15 and will be sold for $199 per. Since none of the major manufacturers have mentioned plans to release Google Android phones in Australia, Kogan’s MIGHT be the first Android-based phone to hit the country.

“We’ve got a few designs that we can easily choose from. We know the components that’s going to go into the phone…It’s a matter of loading the Android system on to the phone, configuring it, making sure it works very well and then the manufacturing of the few thousands phones that we need to launch it is just a matter of a day or two,” says Ruslan Kogan, company owner.

Kogan via SMH via GIZ AU

This is what a lot of people from all over the world might have been waiting for – the moment the T-Mobile G1 or the HTC Dream gets unlocked. From what I’ve heard, there’s an abundance of the first Google Android handset for sale on Ebay, but it’s useless if it can’t be used in other networks, especially in countries outside the USA.

continue reading "T-Mobile G1 Gets Unlocked"