G1: the ultimate Android-app!

after handing back my evaluation SIM-card to T-Mobile earlier today, I’ve finally found G1’s real purpose: as a glorified alarm clock on my nightstand (Nightwatch is the name of the app and it even uses text2speech to tell the time).  

11 more incredible useful Android-apps can be found at Lifehacker.
PS: got a [...]

Testdrive G1: Android RC33

while most austrian G1-users are still waiting to get Android’s latest release RC33 pushed to their handsets by T-Mobile, fellow mobileblogger electrobabe found a deep link to a firmware-binary allowing to upgrade straight from RC29 (the file is about twice the size of the usual RC30->RC33 upgrade, probably because it contains both diffs). keep in mind that this [...]

Google Latitude on Android RC33

Google Latitude, which was introduced earlier this week and is expected to be rolled out (at least in the US) on Android via the RC33 upgrade (this is not cupcake!) from February 5th to 15th, might be a game changer in mobile, geo-aware social networking.  Google describes Latitude as…
…a new feature of Google Maps for mobile, as [...]

Testdrive G1: Mobile Photo Uploads

Niko wrote in:
somehow I can’t seem to find a good Android-app to upload photos to the web, preferably to Flickr. any hints?
after toying around with several other apps, I found Pixelpipe to be the perfect solution for this task. similar to Shozu (which I’ve been using back in the day on Nokia’s S60 phones), Pixelpipe [...]

Android Cupcake screencast

while there’s still no way to get root-access  for manually upgrading the firmware of the Austrian T-Mobile G1, MobileCrunch has a promising screencast of Android’s development-branch, codenamed ‘Cupcake’. besides a large number of bugfixes, Cupcake is supposed to include essential new features like a process-manager (to kill those power-sucking background-apps), browser-extensions (improved JavaScript performance, copy&paste, [...]

Testdrive: G1 music apps

it’s been almost a week since I first started testing the G1, and so far my initial impression hasn’t really changed that much. like many of my fellow testers I’m disappointed by many aspects of both hardware and software. while the former would make me wait for a successor (I guess the G2 can’t be [...]

Testdrive: T-Mobile G1 aka Google Phone (Day 1)

visiting Vienna’s WerkzeugH yesterday evening, one might easily have  had the impression Vienna’s blogging geeks collectively got something mixed up in their calendars about christmas this year.  impatient looks, nervously shuffling feet – and then finally – hastily unboxing, clumsy attempts of inserting batteries & SIMs, followed by the happy smiles only gadget-lovers can sport … (drama [...]

Wordpress – mobile optimization

since learning about ready.mobi earlier this week, I spent the better part of my evenings checking my own sites for mobile compliance – with, aehm, mixed results. for my wordpress-blogs I’ve been using a combination of iWPhone for iPhone-specific rendering, and  Wordpress Mobile Edition for all other mobile devices. since the latter only comes with [...]

ready.mobi – mobile compliance checks

just wanted to share this great resource with anybody developing for the mobile web. ready.mobi is by far the best tool for testing mobile web-pages I’ve come across… besides running 20 thorough compliance tests against your pages (MP-Doctype, Validation, Encoding, Image-/Page-size etc.), it also helps with fixing any issues by linking to the appropriate articles [...]

iPhone – tethered and tied, Part 3

 
ok, this is the last one, I promise
…but it’s really worh it – PDAnet (available through Cydia on jailbroken phones, for free) seems to be the ultimate iPhone-tethering-app so far. since I’m on the road for the rest of the week I thought I might as well give it a try…
unlike previously mentioned solutions, [...]