For those with a spare weekend and good knowledge of robotics, you may want to try this yourself – grab your T-Mobile G1 Android phone and tweak it so it can control your own little robot.

If you’re like me and lack both of the aforementioned, sit back and enjoy the handiwork of the more privileged.

Via Engadget

For all the potential Android app developers out there, your time has come – Google has announced the launch of the new Android Dev Phone 1. The handset is the same HTC Dream that’s being sold through T-Mobile as the G1, except that as its name implies, this one’s meant for the developers and hence, unlocked.

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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"

And yet more accessories for your imported and jailbroken T-Mobile G1. Here are a few leather cases to choose from in different styles, colors and textures.

continue reading "Mr.Gadget T-mobile G1 HTC Dream Leather Case"

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.

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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.

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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."

SMobile Systems released VirusGuard, the first known anti-virus created for Google Android systems. VirusGuard was created using knowledge gleaned from creating anti-virus applications for other systems such as Symbian, Windows Mobile, iPhone, and Palm.

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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"

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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"