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It appears that some eagle eyed readers have spotted changes in the Kogan Agora (and Agora Pro) Android powered smartphone that appears on Kogan’s site.  The basic form factor remains the same, but a number of changes have been made that, quite frankly, concern me.
So, what changed?

The device seems slightly more squat in shape.  Can’t [...]

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Enjoying your new found root access to your T-Mobile G1, are you?  That’s great.  Soak it all in.  We’ll wait.
Ah, you’re back.  Well, thanks to the G1’s over the air (OTA) update model, that root access is going the way of the dinosaurs.  For now, at least.  RC30 is being developed and will be sent [...]

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Manually update your G1 firmware….at your own risk, that is.
It seems that the guys at the XDA Developers site have figured out how to download and install the latest firmware update from a microSD memory card.
You first need to download the firmware update file. It might take multiple attempts, sometimes the link doesn’t work.

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Not too much to say here. Today my G1 told me that it was ready to install a new firmware update. While I didn’t know specifically at that time that it was talking about RC29, that is what I was expecting.
Once I gave it the go-ahead, the entire update process took 6.5 minutes. [...]

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We mentioned last week that a new over the air update for the T-Mobile G1 was on its way.  It was called RC28 and was to address a bug with the Amazon MP3 store and offer a few enhancements.  Well, since the Android browser security flaw was found, Google and T-Mobile have halted the RC28 [...]

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That’s right, we’re expecting an OTA update of the G1 to start going out tomorrow - 24 hours after the device went on sale in stores. Supposedly the update will be fairly minor in order to make sure the system works and such. At least that is what Will, the admin T-Mobile’s Forums, [...]

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