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Re: Google Latitude on iPhone and UK T-Mobile G1

chewtoy — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:04:59 -0000

Cupcake hit T-Mobile UK G1s back in early May. Google maps 3.0 (which should support Latitude) was included with Cupcake; however the latitude code was disabled in the T-Mobile UK build of the code.

Cupcake on the Magic and Cupcake on the G1 in the US both had the same version of maps and both had Latitude support. Presumably your Dev G1 is running a dev build of Android rather than the stock T-Mobile UK version.

I noticed and installed Maps 3.1.0 on June 16th, not sure of the exact release date. It is up to 3.1.2 at the current time. All versions I have tried from the market have had functional Latitude, its just the one bundled in with the phone OS that lacks support.

Re: Is the stylus indicative of shoddy UI design?

chewtoy — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:25:30 -0000

I'm a long time palm user, so am very familiar with stylus use. While I have never had a phone with a stylus, I sometimes find myself wishing I had that option while using my G1. I often find I am following the wrong link due to my sausage fingers...

Re: Opera mini 4.2 comes to the G1 and out of beta

chewtoy — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:56:23 -0000

Not sure if its just a problem with the UK market, but I can still only see the beta for Opera Mini.

I had a go on the beta a couple of days ago http://ping.fm/NrQqs and wasn't that impressed, even though I really wanted to be. It feels like a very competent mobile browser which is good; however the built in browser feels like a limited desktop browser - and even a crippled desktop browser wins over a mobile browser IMO.

I'll keep it installed, but I'll probably only use it when I'm either very low on battery or have something to do that the built in browser just can't cope with (like unicode text entry).

Re: Android ‘reboot’ command gets a fix

chewtoy — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:51:30 -0000

It does on mine! What firmware version are you on? AFAIK there isn't a fixed UK firmware yet...

Try doing a cold boot on the phone and making sure you hit return both before and after typing reboot.

A simple fix is to type "cat" (again surrounded by returns) to send all the user input to a less harmful location than /bin/sh ;)

Re: T-Mobile G1: 16 Things I Like About You

chewtoy — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:25:52 -0000

Thanks for number 3! I've been waiting for the timeout for locking, didn't realise I could just hit hang-up (doh!)

On number 7: I have a bit of a love hate relationship with this one. First time I started typing and the address bar automagically came up I loved it; however the loss of keyboard shortcuts on some of the sites I visit regularly slows me down a lot more than the simple two press "menu->goto url"