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According to an AndroidGuys.com reader, who claims to have spoken with a T-Mobile supervisor (presumably in the call center), T-Mobile is planning to send out a normal capacity second battery to its customers, not the larger battery that has been reported quite often recently.
Comments on that post show that users have had mixed results with [...]

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An HTC representative recently told EngadgetMobile that the company expects the updates and enhancements found in the “Cupcake” branch of the Android OS development tree to eventually make it to the G1 that it manufacturers for T-Mobile.
The rep also said that it was up to T-Mobile and Google to do, however, and that HTC is [...]

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According to the Michael Martin at the GoogleAndBlog, a T-Mobile support rep has made reference to a T-Mobile plan to send out free extended batteries and matching rear covers to users that have bought a T-Mobile G1 from the company.  Battery life has been one of the major issues for most users, and the supposed [...]

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Gifts can be great. Especially ones that you weren’t expecting but suddenly realise you really needed. There is no better way to show how well you know a friend or loved one by surprising them with something that they’ll love. Well this year Google has continued the ‘traditional holiday bonus’ scheme but this time, instead [...]

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As 2008 embarks on the beginning of the end, T-Mobile will undoubtedly look back and remember it as a year for the G1 (ok, and the iPhone 3G). Nevertheless, as Android momentum builds, soon T-Mobile will not be alone in the world of the drones.
As you will remember, the Australian firm Kogan has recently starting [...]

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T-Mobile UK has dropped the minimum 18 month contract required to get a T-Mobile G1 for free from £40 to £30 per month.
The £30 “Combi” plan includes 700 minutes of talk time, unlimited texting, and free access to the internet.  The older £40 Combi plan is still available, and offers 100 additional minutes of talk [...]

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This one is a bit scary for any Android fans that plan on doing some international travel.  AndroidGuys.com has received an email from a G1 owner who claims to have been socked with a $102 data roaming charge after having spent two weeks in the United Kingdom - even when he had the phone’s data [...]

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Users of unlocked G1’s have found that ShopSavvy, an application freely available in the Android Market, is no longer there after unlocking their phones.  After contacting ShopSavvy, it was discovered that although users may be in locations that are compatible with ShopSavvy, the distribution of ShopSavvy prevented its appearance in users’ phones.  ShopSavvy, an application [...]

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Praise be to the gods of open source.  It appears that some smart fella has put together an app for the T-Mobile G1 that handles automatic screen rotation based on the accelerometer instead of only rotating the screen when the keyboard is exposed.
Sweet.
That should make a lot of folks happy as they are web browsing [...]

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I just got an email from T-Mobile telling us that the G1 is now available to folks in the U.S. in white.  Up until now we’ve only had access to the black and brown models, while the UK has had black and white.  Now folks in the U.S. have thier choice of all three of [...]

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