The T-Mobile G1 v2: Exceeding Info on Next-Gen Android Device

We interrupt your steady stream of iPhone rumors to bring you new investigate on that different famous smartphone: the Android-powered T-Mobile G1. second its successor, the T-Mobile G2 (aka HTC voodoo) has yet to hit America, there’s now gossip of a “T-Mobile G1 v2″ that could be coming soon to a store up you.

Meet the T-Mobile G1 v2

Word of the supposed T-Mobile G1 v2 unparalleled hit when tech blog TMOToday naked an light coming map of Wal-Mart’s mobile launch schedule earlier this extent. The map shows a G2 figure becoming available this summer, bury the G1 v2 following pressure the hopping. The G1 v2 is referred to due to “Bigfoot” and “Morrison” in various places.

Now, we’re receiving a pre-eminent glimpse at how the oddly named phone could look. (To appear as fair, Microsoft’s rumored smartphone of the unborn is codenamed “Pink,” so we’ll style HTC some slack.) The sleuths at The Boy Genius invoice have published what they clear to be a leaked abstraction of the G1 v2. The shot shows a slick-looking device disguise a slideout QWERTY keyboard — vital the T-Mobile G1 had but the G2 lacked.

Sale Speculation

So far, no specs hold been leaked, though there’s speculation the T-Mobile G1 v2 will vouchsafe seeing about $148 plant a two-year engage through Wal-Mart. That’s the same price at which Wally World’s been selling the G1 since draw out October. With all the talk of Apple considering a smaller, lower-priced iPhone (not to adduce lowering its iPhone lift plans), a price tag under $150 could make Android’s seemingly full-size offering an attractive option.

Initial Impressions

It’s immense to jaw much more about the alleged T-Mobile G1 v2 without having any firm attainments. My initial impression, based on the truncated and problematical info we have, is that the phone could determine to possess a strenuous clot of the G1’s further the G2’s strongest features: It appears to have the sleekness besides zip of the latter, bit reclaiming the slide out keyboard skill of the former (something I, now one, value — those iPhone/iPod Touch keyboards are damn operose to use).

Free T-Mobile G1 Games Download: Monopoly – Here & Now (EA)

EA brings the NEW edition of MONOPOLY: HERE & NOW to mobile with a bang! The classic game with a modern twist features new locations from today’s world. Play with eight stunningly animated tokens including fries, labradoodle, a hybrid car and even a mobile phone! Use your millions and business skills to buy, trade and auction your way to success. Take on friends in four player pass and play multiplayer to see who can end up taking over the town and going home with the cash!

Features may vary by handset.
•The classic game of Monopoly brought into the 21st Century with modern locations, pieces and prices
•Authentic locations from all over the world
•Take on friends in four player pass and play multiplayer

Platform: Android OS (T-Mobile G1 Only)
How to Install:
1. Download the file.
2. Unzip the file.
3. Copy the monopolyherenow.apk file to your device
4. Use a file manager such as ASTRO (available for free in the Market) to navigate to monopolyherenow.apk and open it.
5. Install it.
6. Play it.
7. Enjoy!

Google allowing tethering apps for non-T-Mobile users

After performing a mass sweep of tethering applications from the Android Market earlier this week, Google have backtracked. Rather than a total ban, their suggestion is to leave tethering software available to “users outside the T-Mobile US network”:

“We inadvertently unpublished your application for all mobile providers; if you like, we can restore your app so that all Android Market users outside the T-Mobile US network will have access to your application” Google statement to WiFi Tether for Root Users developer.”

It looks as though, as we suggested, Google has a filtering system which allows them to limit Android Market content depending on carrier. It’s arguable whether that’s good news or bad; one perspective is that at least developers can promote Android software that, while perhaps falling foul of some carriers’ Terms of Service (ToS), would still be usable by those with unlocked devices on different networks.

However, a different view might maintain that by giving in to carrier pressure, Google has set a precedent which could significantly impact future software, such as VoIP apps. The layering of ToS and distribution agreements involving users, carriers and Google themselves makes keeping track of which apps will be permitted, whether partially or totally, difficult, and it’ll only get worse as more carriers sign up their own Android devices.

(Via Androidcommunity )

TiVo For The T-Mobile G1

Now that they are finally putting some paid apps on the market, wouldn’t it be great if TiVo came out with one? I love TiVo and I’m an avid fan and user of the service and I think we need some absolutely to die for apps on the Android Market and an applications where we could edit our TiVo setting from ANYWHERE would definitely do be worth the buy.

A couple great features the TiVo app could have is to show listing of “Whats Hot” that’s going to be coming on the tele for example the Academy Awards and Oscars, movie listings, and more. It would also be cool if they had maybe a Top TiVo thing where you can see the most coveted shows that everybody is trying to get recorded. 

But really now, lets get some killer apps out there developers. Even if you have to charge for them. The first person who makes a decent video recorder can charge 1 dollar for the app and I’m sure they’d rack up a few hundred thousand in the first night. So who’s going to be first to create a TiVo application for me? I’ll give you a dollar ?

T-Mobile bringing the BlackBerry Curve 8900 in February

Sprint’s now officially holding up the tail end of the BlackBerry train in the States (though hopefully not for long) now that T-Mobile has announced that the thoroughly modern Curve 8900 is hitting the lineup. Like the 8320 before it, the 8900 does WiFi for UMA-based HotSpot calling service and a 3.5mm headphone jack, but the similarities end there; besides arguably becoming the hottest BlackBerry in RIM’s stable, the 8900 features a 3.2-megapixel cam with image stabilization and a glorious 480 x 360 display that’ll put anything shy of a Storm to shame. Look for it next month — T-Mobile hasn’t committed to a date, though we have no reason to doubt the 11th rumor at this point.

How To Upload Music To The T-Mobile G1 Android Phone!

The T-Mobile G1 Google phone has a pretty great music player, and the Marketplace has quite a good selection of downloadable video players to sort out the mobile movie watching side of things, but how exactly do you put them on there without some kind of iTunes-y saviour?

Well, it’s a lot easier than you might think, and thanks to me, you too will know how!

1. Connect your Googleicious G1 to the computer via a miniUSB cable.

2. You will see it come up with something along the lines of ‘Android Device attached.’ This is a good thing.

3. Open up ‘My Computer’ and the G1 will be listed here as a removable disk (hopefully). This is the microSD which is inside the G1, and ripe to have some music moved to it!

4. Check on the handset’s ‘Notifications’ pulldown tab from the top of the screen. There should be one new note saying ‘mount USB’ or something along those lines. Do it and then the PC can talk to the G1 properly.

4. Create a folder named ‘Music’ and another named ‘Movies’ for, you guessed it, music and movies!

5. Drag and drop your fave tunes and mp4 encoded movies into the respective folders, and you should be fine!

T-Mobile G1 is jailbroken

Well, it didn’t take too long. G1 is jailbroken. Full system access, read and write, has been obtained. And this method is quite easy. A few folks at the xda-developers forum discovered you can start telnet on the device by downloading PTerminal from Android Market, and then you can telnet to the device from your computer.

Once you’ve done that – you’re logged in as root. One simple command mounts the system dir as writable, and away we go.

Here’s the basic process:

1. Turn on WiFi in the G1 (Settings > Wireless Controls > Wi-Fi). Make sure you’re connected to a network.
2. Start up PTerminal (search in the Market) and you’ll get a prompt once its launched.
3. Enter cd system and hit Enter.
4. Enter cd bin and hit Enter.
5. Enter telnetd and hit Enter. You’ve now started telnet on your G1.
6. Enter netstat and hit Enter. You’ll now see your G1’s IP address. You can also find this in the Settings > Wireless Controls > Wi-Fi > and click on your network you’re connected to. It will show you your IP.
7. Start up Terminal on your OS X machine, or bring up a command prompt on your Windows box. Type telnet [your.ip.address.we.just.found] and hit Enter/Return. So, if your IP was 192.168.1.101, you’d type telnet 192.168.1.101 and hit Enter/Return.
8. You are logged in as root now. To remount the system file as read write, type mount -oremount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system from the Terminal/Command Prompt and hit Enter/Return.

This opens a whole world of possibilities.

I’ve put up a fledgling Android file directory and list here. Its not quite complete, and there’s some symlinks in there I didn’t properly label yet, but its a solid start.

Remember, this is the first baby steps to jailbreaking the G1. When the iPhone was initially jailbroken, everything was incredibly dull and tedious to do – all via command line, etc. Heck, when iPhuc came out it was a huge breakthrough, and there was still nothing close to a GUI app. Look for huge steps to be taken soon in making this easier for the average Joe Six Pack.

The Android File List (Update at 2008.11.7)

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Construction Brothers – Karma.mp3
CSS – Rat is Dead.mp3
Flight of the Conchords – The Most Beautiful Girl in the Roo.mp3
Kevin Michael – Ain’t Got You.mp3
Kid Sister – Control.mp3
Kinski – Punching Goodbye Out Front.mp3
Marcus Miller – Blast!.mp3
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nmea
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Fw1251r1c.bin
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wpa_supplicant.conf
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com.tmobile.wifi.apk
org.connectbot.apk
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com.shazam.android/
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org.connectbot/
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lib/
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com.google.android.talk/
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com.google.android.street/
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com.tmobile.myfaves/
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com.google.android.apps.maps/
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com.google.android.googleapps/
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com.google.android.gm/
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lib/
com.android.providers.downloads/
lib/
com.android.contacts/
lib/
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lib/
com.android.providers.calendar/
lib/
com.android.calendar/
lib/
com.android.calculator2/
lib/
com.android.bugreport/
lib/
com.android.browser/
lib/
com.android.alarmclock/
lib/
com.amazon.mp3/
lib/
com.android.providers.imcredential/
lib/
com.android.im/
lib/
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tmp/
misc/
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wifi/
wpa_supplicant.conf
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wpa_ctrl_49-3
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00:17:E8:EC:92:89/
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names
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classes
config
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app/
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Browser.apk
Bugreport.apk
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Email.apk
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Sync.apk
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Email.odex
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CalendarProvider.odex
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security/
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AudioPara4.csv
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01-test
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95-configured
dhcpcd-run-hooks
dhcpcd.conf
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event-log-tags
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gps/
nmea
location
properties
favorites.xml
pvplayer.conf
permissions.xml
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Fw1251r1c.bin
tiwlan.ini
wpa_supplicant.conf
apns-conf.xml
gps.conf
NOTICE.html
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am.odex
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libsoundpool.so
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audio/
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F1_New_MMS.ogg
F1_New_SMS.ogg
CaffeineSnake.ogg
DearDeer.ogg
DontPanic.ogg
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KzurbSonar.ogg
OnTheHunt.ogg
Voila.ogg
Beat_Box_Android.ogg
Heaven.ogg
TaDa.ogg
Tinkerbell.ogg
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Alarm_Beep_01.ogg
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Alarm_Rooster_02.ogg
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Ring_Classic_02.ogg
Ring_Synth_04.ogg
Ring_Synth_02.ogg
BeatPlucker.ogg
BentleyDubs.ogg
CaribbeanIce.ogg
BirdLoop.ogg
CrazyDream.ogg
CurveBall.ogg
EtherShake.ogg
DreamTheme.ogg
FriendlyGhost.ogg
GameOverGuitar.ogg
Growl.ogg
InsertCoin.ogg
LoopyLounge.ogg
LoveFlute.ogg
MidEvilJaunt.ogg
MildlyAlarming.ogg
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VeryAlarmed.ogg
TwirlAway.ogg
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share/
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camera
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The T-Mobile G1 ‘Google Phone’ is a tweaker’s delight

At first glance, the T-Mobile G1 (US$179) doesn’t seem to merit much attention. It looks like just another bland, HTC-manufactured phone. But use the G1–the first phone to run Google’s Android operating system — for 5 minutes, and you’ll start to see why it’s one of the best-designed phones you can buy. Not only is the G1 intuitive to use, but its customization options (via Android) makes it a tweaker’s delight.

Setup

From the start, the G1 offers a different, more intuitive smart-phone experience. At boot-up, the phone displays a cartoon graphic of an android, with an animated finger pointing at the android and instructions to “touch the android to begin.”

The ensuing screens are clearly presented, and walk you through the speedy setup process. You’ll need a Google account, the phone explains, for automatic syncing of your contacts, calendar, and e-mail with your Web-based Google data.

If you don’t already have an account, you can sign up directly from the phone. Otherwise, sign in to link your existing Google account and the phone. After the initial, over-the-air synchronization finished, my Google e-mail and calendar info was available to me on the phone, and the phone was ready for use.

Design

The phone itself has a candybar design with a matte black finish and slightly rubberized plastic back. It’s narrower than its chief rival, Apple’s iPhone, but slightly thicker (the G1 measures 4.6 inches by 2.2 inches by 0.6 inch, and weighs 5.6 ounces). The 3.2-inch capacitive touch-screen display dominates the front face of the phone; the physical buttons on the phone are well chosen and clearly labeled.

The lower fifth of the phone holds an easy-glide trackball (similar to the trackball found on RIM BlackBerry devices) and five buttons: a green talk button to activate the phone itself; a home button to return you to home screen; a back button to move to the previously viewed screen in the browser and throughout the phone; a red end button; and a rectangular, context-sensitive menu button. This last button is conveniently situated beneath the screen (double press the button to quickly release the screen lock; hold it down for a couple of seconds to get a shortcut screen to recently used applications) and directly above the trackball.

A full QWERTY keyboard hides beneath display; when you press the middle left part of the phone, the display smoothly slides up. At the same time, the phone automatically rotates the screen’s orientation from vertical to horizontal; you have to use the horizontal orientation for data entry tasks, as the phone lacks an on-screen keyboard (unlike the Apple iPhone 3G or the RIM BlackBerry Storm).

The roomy backlit keyboard made typing easy, though the buttons felt a bit too flat for my comfort (because the flat buttons butt up against the rim of the phone, pressing the bottom row of buttons was sometimes difficult; the same issue arose with the buttons at the far right). My right thumb had to work harder than my left because, in effect, the keyboard was deeply inset (my thumb had to reach around and over the bottom fifth of the phone to reach it).

The only other physical buttons on the phone are a volume rocker switch on the upper left side, and a dedicated camera shutter button on the right side. A microSD Card slot is hidden on the left of the phone; to access it, you open the screen and press a subtle tab; the card then pops out of the side (warning: you’ll need fingernails to get it to pop out easily). T-Mobile includes a 1GB card; the device has been tested with up to 8GB microSD Cards, and should support 16GB cards when available.

The rear cover pops off to reveal the unit’s battery and SIM card. Because (like other HTC-designed handsets) the phone lacks a standard dedicated headphone jack, you have to use the included wired stereo headset, which plugs into the proprietary jack at the phone’s base–the same jack that the charger plugs into. T-Mobile plans to offer a converter at extra cost, but the dongle approach seems as bothersome and inelegant as the original Apple iPhone’s nonstandard headphone jack was. It’s too bad, because the phone is certainly a capable media player.

Phone Use

The phone feels good in the hand, and it sounded great when I tested it. I received both 3G and EDGE network coverage in the San Francisco Bay Area; audio was clear, with no background noise or hiss.

In the PC World Test Center, the battery lasted for 5 hours, 51 minutes of continuous talk time–23 minutes longer than the iPhone 3G. In my hands-on use, the battery drained a bit faster than I had expected, though: After an hour of use (including phone calls, and music and application downloads), the battery had drained by 31 percent.

The Dialer application is simple to use. The on-screen buttons are well-spaced, and I had no difficulty using the app one-handed. Unlike with the iPhone 3G, I didn’t accidentally trigger buttons by running my finger over the screen. I particularly liked the streamlined process for entering contact data, and the freedom I had to customize a contact’s info to match the fields I wanted to fill. The Voice Dialer worked well when I tried it in a quiet environment.

Hardware and Software Integration: As with Apple’s iPhone and its software, the integration of the G1’s hardware with the Android software is crucial. Here, both the phone and Android shine: Thanks to its trackball and its slide-and-glide gesture-capable touch screen, the G1 had particularly intuitive and smooth ergonomics. Displays behaved as my fingers seemed to expect them to–except that I couldn’t swipe left-to-right to scroll through pictures in my photo library, as I could with an iPhone 3G. The touch screen was usually highly responsive, but sometimes when I’d touch a hypertext link in the browser, I had to press twice for it to take. I liked being able to use my finger to drag open the Notifications status to see additional details about incoming text, instant, voice, and e-mail messages; and calendar events.

As the first Android device, the G1 teems with potential, and exploring the new interface is fun. Google’s own clean, simple Web design has clearly informed much of Android’s interface–and how you interact with the applications. You can tweak and customize everything, either through the deep and varied Settings options or through suitable apps.

The opening home screen consists of a myFaves icon at the upper left, an analog clock icon in the middle, and four primary applications: Dialer (also known as the phone), contacts, browser, and maps. Hold your finger down on an app, and the phone will vibrate once and release the icon so that you can move it to another spot on the screen.

Swipe your finger to the right, and the wallpaper continues onto a second home screen, with a Google search bar permanently fixed at its top. Press or drag the tab at the bottom of the screen (in vertical orientation; in horizontal orientation, the tab shows at right) to reveal the other applications. The icons, arrayed in rows of four, will include all of your applications. Apps are arranged alphabetically; the icons are smaller and slightly less distinctive than on the Apple iPhone, but they’re comparable to what you’d see on a Palm OS or BlackBerry OS device. Hold your finger down on an icon to duplicate the icon on the home screen.

The phone has both assisted GPS and GPS. The Google Maps app built-in uses both, but in my casual tests in San Francisco, it didn’t exhibit the same level of accuracy in picking up my location as an iPhone 3G’s Google Maps app did.

At launch, the G1 doesn’t support the stereo Bluetooth profile, according to T-Mobile; however, the phone may support stereo Bluetooth at some future time.

Applications: The phone comes with a number of apps preinstalled–and you can add tons more via the Android Market. The versatile IM lets you configure instant messaging with AIM, Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger, and Yahoo Messenger. Because Android permits multitasking–and no app actually closes–you can receive IMs after you’ve left the IM app to browse the Web, for example. (With the iPhone, you won’t get your messages if you leave the IM app, and you have to log in again each time.)

Mail from Gmail gets its own icon, but you can set up other POP3 and IMAP e-mail accounts as well, in just a couple of steps (the software automatically configures the server settings). The calendar syncs with your Google Calendar. I had no trouble viewing the various calendar entries I’m privy to, or adding an entry to my calendar, but I couldn’t add an entry to other Google Calendars that I have rights to. And bizarrely, Android has no Google Docs support at launch; the only way you can access Google Docs is through the Web browser–a bit of a pain. You can view Microsoft Word and Excel documents through Gmail, but you can’t save and view these docs through the Web browser. Similarly, you can open and read PDF files received through Gmail.

The Web browser handled much of what I threw at it, but it balked at some tasks (for example, it lacks in-browser Flash support). I missed having discrete forward and backward controls (you can go back only by clicking the universal hardware back button) and an option for offline viewing (as on a Palm OS-based Treo), but adding and retrieving bookmarks was simple.

Multimedia

The Amazon MP3 app is a useful alternative to iTunes, and music downloaded quickly and easily. I could queue up the DRM-free tracks for download, which occurred in the background as I did other things with the phone. Unfortunately, the selection is less extensive than the one on iTunes.

The music player application is easy to navigate, and great for finding and playing back music. Music sounded okay when piped through the built-in speaker (on a par with the iPhone 3G’s speaker). But the lack of a standard headphone jack limits the G1’s potential as a music player.

The camera app is a big disappointment. Though the device has a 3-megapixel camera, it lacks a flash, a zoom, and any controls for adjust image quality, white balance, or the like. There’s no camcorder, either, though T-Mobile says that the imaging sensor can capture video if someone writes a video capture app and offers it on the Android Market.

Final Analysis

T-Mobile’s Android-based G1 isn’t especially sexy or eye-catching, but it does a lot of things right. It’s a strong first-generation Android device, but the absence of a standard headphone jack, a video camera, and Google Docs (and support for Word and Excel) at launch are notable detractions. Still, I would recommend this versatile phone over countless other smart-phones; Android’s intuitive ease-of-use raises this phone above most Windows Mobile- and BlackBerry-based devices.

T-Mobile G1 Google phone Users Guide Video

The all new T-Mobile G1 Google phone is available as of tomorrow and we know T-Mobile stores in the states will be packed solid.

Yes like the iPhone 3G release all O2 stores in the UK was jam-packed, October 22, Wednesday will be a busy day in the U.S and October 31st will be busy for us in the UK.

Anyway below we have a video for you to watch called the T-Mobile G1 Google phone Users Guide, pretty nice video to watch and gives you the basics of how the phone works, right I will shut up now and let you watch the video for yourself. Please do post your comments.

Unlocking the T-Mobile G1: The Definitive Word

One of the G1’s five most obnoxious flaws (okay, there were more than five) is that it’s locked to T-Mobile, which seems antithetical to the whole openness deal. Since T-Mobile is subsidising the phone so heavily, it originally sounded like T-Mobile’s usual unlock policy wouldn’t apply, and a spokesperson wasn’t sure when we asked yesterday. Good news though: The official word from T-Mobile is if your account has been active for 90 days, they’ll unlock the G1 for you, just like they would with any other phone.

T-Mobile branded phones operating on the T-Mobile network may only use T-Mobile SIM cards. To use a T-Mobile branded phone on another wireless carrier’s network with a non-T-Mobile SIM card, you must first request a “SIM Unlock” code from T-Mobile. Conversely, if you have a phone from another North American wireless carrier, you may need to request a “SIM Unlock” code from that carrier before being able to use a T-Mobile SIM card on the T-Mobile network.

* SIM Unlock Codes will only be provided after your account has been active for 90 days. Only one unlock code may be provided per customer every 90 days.

Yes, even if you pay $US399 for a contract-less phone, you’ve still gotta have an active account for 90 days to have T-Mobile unlock it.

Of course, as we noted before, if you’re just interested in unlocking the G1 you really won’t have to worry about this at all: Developers can (and probably will, we’re betting within a couple of days after the launch) totally put an unlocking application in the Android Market—it won’t be blocked or pulled down. Definitely a prudent and laudable move on T-Mobile’s part, since trying to fight hackers on a phone almost explicitly designed for it would be retardo to the tenth degree. See, it really is up to devs to make Android awesome.