http://www.g1-news.com News, reviews, and all there is to know about the T-Mobile G1 and Google's Android Operating System! Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:44:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Those new to Android might not realise it, but the Nexus One wasn't the first Google-branded phone, that honour actually goes to the T-Mobile G1. So, it is with slightly misty eyes that we reveal T-Mobile have discontinued this landmark handset. The G1 was the first mobile to feature Google's exciting ... http://www.g1-news.com/2010/07/29/t-mobile-g1-is-no-more/ If you've seen the picture of a Nokia running Android, then don't get your hopes up... it turns out the images are a marketing mistake. Billboards in central London appeared to show a Nokia 5230 and X6 running Android and were snapped by a Posterous user (one Mauricio Reyes) last ... http://www.g1-news.com/2010/07/26/android-on-nokia-shocker-was-just-a-mistake/ According to two recent reports Google’s Android platform is set to overtake the Apple iPhone in terms of downloaded apps. The first report to suggest this trend comes from AdMob, a Google-owned source. Nevertheless, AdMob’s reports states that there will more Android users than Apple iPhone users by the end of ... http://www.g1-news.com/2010/07/15/google-android-set-to-overtake-iphone-by-end-of-2010/ Google have just introduced a toolkit which makes it easy for newbies to computer programming to make their own apps. App Inventor for Android allows you to build just about any app you can imagine with a minimum of prior knowledge of code. Instead of requiring written code, App Inventor ... http://www.g1-news.com/2010/07/13/google-app-builder-for-android/ Android 2.2 has barely made it out of the blocks and already rumors of the upcoming Android 3.0 release have already started popping up. Speculation on Google's next major release of Android, code-named Gingerbread, comes from Russian website Unwiredview, which has the odd scoop before, but without any official word from ... http://www.g1-news.com/2010/07/01/android-3-0-rumours-begin/ Adobe has launched a finished version of Flash 10.1 for Android, which should make proud iPhone owners a little less smug. Android users running version 2.2 will be able to get Flash 10.1 from the Andorid Marketplace, while everyone else will have to wait a little longer as Adobe is expecting ... http://www.g1-news.com/2010/06/22/flash-10-1-arrives-on-android/ As part of its ongoing sponsorship of the Ladies Tennis Association, Sony Ericsson has got Maria Sharapova testing out the Xperia X10. Here's how the champion looked as she tested out the X10's compact chassis and four-corner UI. Do you think she'd rather have a iPhone 4 32 GB? What ... http://www.g1-news.com/2010/06/21/sharapova-tests-out-the-xperia-x10-mini/ Wanted to pick up an HTC Desire, but erred due to the lack of colour variants? Fear not.... UK based retailer Expansys is currently taking orders for the limited Silver edition of the HTC Desire with copies of the swish new colour way sent out in the next two days. The ... http://www.g1-news.com/2010/06/10/limited-edition-silver-htc-desire-arrives-this-week/ Fring has just enabled free two-way internet video calling on Android based devices. The company already offers the same service to Nokia phones (on the Symbian S60) and iPhone owners, but this next step looks to be cementing Frig as a big player in the emerging mobile video app market. With ... http://www.g1-news.com/2010/05/28/fring-launches-2-way-video-calling-app-for-android/ Google’s Android platform has spread with virus-like rapidity and version 2.2 is almost upon us, already. Codenamed FroYo (that’s Frozen Yoghurt – Google persisting in their food-related naming convention) Android 2.2 adds tethering, faster speeds, WiFi hotspot support and a whole host of other improvements that suggest Google has no ... http://www.g1-news.com/2010/05/21/google-android-2-2-delivers-5-killer-blows-to-bada/