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T-mobile MyTouch App Pack Ready To Roll

Jonathan F — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:14:15 +0000

Right after the “official” launch of the MyTouch3G word came from T-mobile that they would be pushing the T-mobile AppPak. T-mobile is hoping to push the Android market hard with the sale of the MyTouch3G with apps such as Sherpa, which has seen a large push from magenta land. Other included apps are some of T-mobile’s own with their Mobile Backup and MyAccount offerings also being pushed to customers. We’ll be finding out soon enough as it seems the AppPak has leaked a little earlier thanks to an email circulating. T-mobile employees, who have been “Championing” a MyTouch3G for a few weeks now have provided the internet with the necessary links to get up and running with the AppPak. Rumors still give hope for G1 availability, but even if T-mobile has a change of heart, fear not, the internet always finds a way.

Long Click HERE from your handset to start the fun!

Best Buy To Pre-Sell MyTouch3G

Jonathan F — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:59:39 +0000

Looks like T-mobile won’t be the only one on the block offering up the flagship MyTouch3G for presale. Best Buy is going to join the ranks of the pre-sale starting now! With T-mobile hoping to kick MyTouch3G sales beyond the ranks of the G1 using every available outlet for sales surely will help them achieve that goal. Details are still a little sparse on this particular bit of info but from the emails I got one can obviously tell from the image above that a $50 dollar deposit will be required for pre-sale but here is the kicker, apparently the device will be available in both Merlot and Ice, so you black MyTouch3G lovers will want to sit this one out. It looks as though your deposit will be placed on a $50 dollar gift card which can then be applied to the purchase price on the day you pick up the phone. You will need the above flyer completed and the sales receipt from the gift card on the day you pick up the device and orders are filled in the order in which they are received. Pretty standard stuff really. Unfortunately, there isn’t a Best Buy around me for miles and miles and miles that sells T-mobile so even if this was the course I decided to go, I couldn’t. I still have yet to ascertain why T-mobile isn’t sold in every Best Buy, anyone have an answer for this, let me know in the comments!

Repost from TmoNews

News Flash, T-mobile Hopes To Sell More MyTouch Than G1

Jonathan F — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:20:47 +0000

According to the fine folks at the Wall Street Journal, T-mobile CTO Cole Brodman, speaking at yesterdays T-mobile MyTouch3G press event made the headline claim. Why this is even news is really beyond me, is it not the point to sell more of a second generation of something than the first? Claiming the broader appeal of the MyTouch, Brodman believes most customers will be new to Android smartphones in general. I’m sure he is hoping that T-mobile’s low price offerings will be their counterpunch to the industry but I fear they are to late to the game with the MyTouch and that its really more uphill than they want to publicly admit. Either way, my support for T-mobile is unwavering and I want to believe the MyTouch is going to be big, very big and can draw customers who are simply fed up with AT&T troubles over to the Magenta side.

Wall Street Journal

Facebook on the Android????

Jonathan F — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:29:59 +0000

Easily one of the most popular applications on the smartphone block and perhaps the one most notably absent from the Android marketplace is Facebook. Our friends over at Android and Me came across the above screen shot taken from the MyTouch T-mobile product page. While Facebook has publicly stated no intentions to build a Facebook app this purported picture has yet to signal a change in their thinking. However, we like to think positively and can only hope, surely to this dismay of several Android developers that an official app is on its way.

Androinica via Android and Me

Getting your T-mobile Android G1 to use the $5.99 T-MobileWeb

Jonathan F — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:59:38 +0000

There are various reasons why you’d do this, and with t-mobile letting you get it without a contract you might want to try to make it work with T-mobileWeb for only $5.99

First here are the basic settings:
Menu->Settings->Wireless Controls->Mobile Networks->Access Point Names->T-Mobile US
I input the following settings:
Name: T-Mobile US
APN: wap.voicestream.com
proxy: 216.155.165.050
port: 8080
Username: Not set
Password: Not set
Server: Not set
MMSC: unchanged from original (http://mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc)
MMS Proxy: 216.155.165.050
MMS Port: 8080
MMC: unchanged (for me it was 310, I believe it is based on your location)
MNC: unchanged (for me it was 260, I believe it is based on your location)
APN type: Not set

Here are the comments from the original commenter about what WORKS, and what doesn’t.
- 3G should work
- Gmail push will not work
- POP3 and IMAP will work (so gmail will work through that way)
- Google maps doesn’t work
- And Android Market DOES NOT seem to work.

For the apps that don’t work you can usually use them when you’re in the wifi network (well not maps, but you get the idea)

Huge Free Ringtone Selection For Your G1

Jon W — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:27:53 +0000

Well, many people have been asking for more of a free selection so we have added these ringtone folders for your downloading pleasure.

Download Country G1 Ringtones

Download Rock G1 Ringtones

Download Rap G1 Ringtones

Welcome to G1 Shack

Jon W — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 06:33:47 +0000

Many will love us and a handful will hate us. Welcome to our website. We have put a lot of time and work into offering you tons of great downloads for your G1 phone. Here what’s new. We launched the App portal to our website. Many people think this app is lame, but they are forgetting it is meant to do nothing more than allow you to download from a preset up list of files. Don’t worry when the market launch’s with paid apps we will make an app that will be well worth your $1.99, but for now, please enjoy our free downloads, ringtones, wallpapers, and news for your G1.

The App Launched on Christmas Eve at 11 at night’ish. In 48 hours the app has had almost 10,000 downloads. Nothing lame about that. Other G1 Websites “Feel free to hate on me”….

G1 Rap Ringtones

Jon W — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:47:19 +0000

We have tons of great rap ringtones here for your G1 phone. You may choose to download our free ringtones by long pressing on them from your G1 and hitting save, or from your computer right click and hit save target as. If you want more ringtones than we have listed here please make a donation to our website for a username and a password for access to thousands of full quality mp3 ringtones for your G1 Google phone today.

21 questions

2-way-freak

50 Cent – I get money

50 Cent_How we do

50Cent-InDaClub

Aint Here _Ruff Ryders

Black Eyed Peas_Don’t Phunk With

Black Eyed Peas_Get Retarded

Brandy_I Wanna Be Down

Cypress Hill_I Wanna Get High

D4L_Laffy Taffy

Destiny’s Child_Bills, Bills, Bills

Destiny’s Child_Bug A Boo

Destiny-’s Child_Cater 2 U

Destiny’s Child_Say My Name

Destiny-’s Child_Soldier

Destiny-’s Child_Soldier -(f. T.I. verse-)

Dirt off your shoulder

DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince_Parents Just Don’t Understa

JustinTimberlake-SexyBack

Kanye West – Stronger

like a real freak

Lloyd – Get it shawty

Nelly-#1

Ne-yo-because of you

Below are just the A through B rap ringtones in our download area for our fans who support us.

Voicemail as Text???

Jonathan F — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:48:02 +0000

Yo check it out, we have tried this new service out and it works.

Its called PhoneTag and you can setup your voicemail from any cell phone and even your office number for this service or have all of your numbers under one account.
What happens is when someone leaves you a message this software converts the messages to a text message or email and sends it to your phone so you Don’t have to check your voicemail Ever Again.

The best part is you can Try it Free

PhoneTag automatically converts your voicemail into text and delivers it directly to your mobile phone, Blackberry, Goodlink enabled phone and/or your email account; so you can read your voicemail.

Save time and money by instantly seeing who called you and reading what they said; whether you are sitting in a business meeting or traveling on the road. Your voicemail functionality does not change; it can still be listened to and stored for later use.

PhoneTag works with all Major U.S. carriers and networks including: AT&T, Alltel, Cincinnati Bell, Sprint, Skype, T-Mobile, Verizon, Virgin and more.

Use PhoneTag to unify your mobile, home and work phones into one unlimited voicemail box. With PhoneTag, you can read every voicemail that comes into any of your phone numbers – from anywhere.

Google Hands Out ‘Dogfood’ as Christmas Bonus

Jonathan F — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:16:49 +0000

Groans are issuing from the Googleplex over this year’s holiday bonus. In the past, the search engine paid cash — as much as $20,000 or $30,000 per Googler, we hear. This year? A cell phone.

Oh, but not just any cell phone: A version of the G1 currently sold for $179.99 by T-Mobile, which runs Google’s Android operating system. Android is the fruit of Google founders’ Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s strange obsession with the wireless market, launched in a fit of jealousy over the growing number of phones running Microsoft’s Windows Mobile. (Imagine that: Google, jealous of Microsoft for a change.)

In an email, Google management blames the economic crisis and suggests that this is a great opportunity to “dogfood” the phones — an unappetizing tech-industry euphemism for testing products in-house. This is what has become of the company that was once deemed the best place in the world to work: Cancelled bonuses and unpaid labor. Here’s the memo:

Googlers,

The holiday bonus is a Google tradition – it’s a great way to thank everyone for their hard work. In the past, we’ve done this in cash. This year, we’ve decided to give Googlers a different kind of present – a Dream phone (this is the same device T-Mobile markets as the G1). We’re really excited about getting the phone to more Googlers in more countries, and also seeing all the cool new things you do with it.

Shipping these special edition phones in such a short time frame (they were designed especially for Googlers with a ‘droid’ on the back) and making sure they would work anywhere in the world was no small feat. So a big thank you to the Android and Legal teams for making this happen. While these phones do not have SIM cards, they are unlocked so they can be used with the network provider of your choice. Plus – thanks to more fancy footwork from the Android team – they’ll work immediately as WiFi devices!

Sadly, despite all our best efforts, there are some countries – India, China, Brazil, Korea, Israel, Russia, Argentina, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mexico, Turkey, Kenya, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Egypt, Chile, and the Ukraine – where even our legal team could not work their magic. Googlers in these countries will receive the cash equivalent of the phone in their December paychecks, which is about $400 USD. Overall though almost 85% of Googlers globally will be able to receive the phone – including the United States, Western and Central Europe, Canada, Australia, Singapore, and Japan.

The holiday gift team in your office will be sending out an email with logistical information on distribution shortly. We know that some of you are already on your holidays – don’t worry – your phones will be waiting for you when you come back! For more information, check out the FAQ here.

Some of you will of course be wondering why we decided to change from a cash bonus to the Dream phone. Here are the reasons. First, we’ve never developed anything like the Android software before and this represented a unique opportunity to celebrate that achievement. Googlers globally have been asking for the Dream phone and we’re looking forward to seeing all the different things that you do with them. This is a chance for us to once again dogfood a product and make it even better! Second, as we discussed in our email this week, the current economic crisis requires us to be more conservative about how we spend our money. We felt that giving the Dream phone would be a great holiday present – something we could all celebrate.

Thank you for all that you do to make Google the company that it is. We hope that you will enjoy using your Dream phone in 2009 and have a very happy holiday!

One tipster notes:

The boxes appear to have magnets to keep them closed, instead of tape — open box discount for Google?

Since the phones are customized for Googlers, the suggestion that these are leftover G1s which went unsold at retail is unlikely. Can you get your hands on one? It will take some bravery to put them up for sale on eBay, magnets or not. But hey, times are tough all over. Even at the Googleplex.

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