5am yesterday morning saw the first people arrive to the queue as the Google Android phone hit stores. T-Mobile’s Oxford Street store was opened early to allow eager shoppers the opportunity to be the first UK customers to get their hands on the much anticipated T-Mobile G1. Read more…
T-Mobile sold around 150 G1 Google phones on launch day at one store on Oxford Street, Mobile understands. The T-Mobile exclusive handset, the first to run Google’s Android platform, hit London stores on the 30 October. Read more…
The first 50 applications for the Google phone have been made available. The Android Market, the application shop for the G1 device, has 50 free applications that can be downloaded via the Android website. The applications range from games and business applications to multimedia. Read more…
T-Mobile has divulged a shortlist of fifty applications that will be available to download immediately for free to the G1 when the device launches in a week’s time, the UK’s first mobile phone to operate on the Android platform. Read more…
Music company Shazam’s music identification service is now available on the Android open platform coinciding nicely with the UK launch of T-Mobile’s G1 handset - the first mobile phone to run on the platform. Users use the service to identify a song simply by holding their phone towards a speaker. Read more…
Social networking site, MySpace has launched an application specifically customized for the Android platform.
Users of the site on Android devices can use many of the site’s features such as uploading photos, checking a band’s tour schedules, view and comment on photos, profiles and bulletins, search and add friends, send and receive messages and update their status. Read more…
The debut Google Android device, T-Mobile’s G1 phone, will be available much sooner than expected. The G1, which is the first phone to run on the Google’s Android open source mobile software platform, will be hitting stores from 30 October. Potential customers have been told to pre-order to avoid disappointment, with 25,000 people having signed up in the UK already. Read more…
The G1, T-Mobile’s Google phone, will be available in the UK from 30 October. High demand is expected for the device, and T-Mobile is claiming that over 25,000 UK consumers have already pre-registered to buy the handset. Read more…
Struggling handset manufacturer Motorola is to bring out a handset featuring Google’s Android platform, aiming to challenge T-Mobile and HTC’s G1 handset, according to reports. Read more…
The Microsoft rumour mill has gone into overdrive reporting the understanding that the company is finally going to release a phone based on its Zune media player. Sources say that the ongoing success of the Apple iPhone and now the forthcoming release of T-Mobile’s G1 Google Android phone has lead Microsoft to decide to make positive action rather than just being happy to supply its Mobile operating system to the smartphone competition. Read more…
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