G1 News

The number one most wanted feature from T-Mobile G1 owners who wished to use it for business as well as pleasure was Microsoft Exchange support.

The Omio interview with T-Mobile head Robin O’Kelly revealed that it was definitely on their radar, although not something that was going to be rectified immediately.

E-mail synchronisation firm Cemaphore Systems have beaten them to it with MailShadowG, a program which allows for the matching of the T-Mobile G1 to the calendar, message and scheduling functionality of the Exchange system.

However, the only caveat attached to MailShadowG is that it is not quite direct syncing between a handset and the mail server, in the manner that Microsoft ActiveSync is for example.

This program rather requires a PC running Microsoft Outlook, and mails which are received there are then pushed to Gmail, and then out to the G1…all in the blink of an eye (almost) and in both directions.

It is a solution which requires a PC on all of the time, which is obviously not quite as elegant a solution as people are looking for, but it works well right now.

There is another little catch in that it also costs a fee of $49.95 a year, but there is an introductory fee of $29.95 until the end of November, and also a 15 day free trial of the service.

All of these are available from cemaphore.com.

Have a try, let us know how you find it!

Whilst Apple push away Adobe’s lustful advances, Google have been only too happy to embrace their essential Flash technology, with the result being the elusive ‘full web experience,’ running on a T-Mobile G1.

Director of mobile platforms at Google, Andy Rubin, was understandably pleased with this collaborative effort: “Adobe Flash is crucial to a rich Internet and content experience on mobile devices and we are thrilled that Google will be one of the first companies along with the Open Handset Alliance to bring Flash technology to the smartphone market.”

When it will actually be on our G1s is unclear, but certainly sooner rather than later given the stable nature the demo was reported to run at.

With this move, the iPhone becomes the only operating system not to run Flash content in some shape or form, despite being equipped with a full HTML browser in Safari.

Adobe still try to court Apple’s affections, however, with word that their new Flash 10 is optimised to perform well on Mac computers. Loosely translated, Adobe were saying: “We love Macs, we love Apple, help us help you on the iPhone!”

With Flash shown to be up and running on the G1, it might just be the thing to spur Jobs and Co. into action…

UPDATE: Here’s a video to see for yourselves the Flashy goodness the G1 will soon have! Very impressive…

Source: Android Community / I4U

The lack of multi-touch support is one of the few things that makes the G1 seem a little simple compared to the iPhone’s pinch-and-pull happy interface, but MobileCrunch reports that some super-hacker has burrowed deep into the software and found it possible!

After recompiling the kernel, reversing the polarity and getting the 1.21 gigawatts necessary (or something), RyeBrye managed to track simultaneous finger presses at the same time!

The fact that Apple have patented most of the swiping and poking interfaces might make some sense of why the G1 doesn’t currently support it. But who’s to say some enterprising individual won’t put up an app on the ‘open’ Marketplace, allowing that very thing?

All it would need then is some apps to support it, and another reason to favour the iPhone over the G1 evaporates!