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With Android emerging at the productive rate that it is, be ready for some more applications heading your way towards your G1 that help network and enhance your Android/G1 experience. Also, it is predicted that after 2010, it will be easier to get an Android phone (like the G1) rather than an iPhone.

On this premise, it would be great to see the G1 (or any Android-based phone) take over the whole iPhone market.

According to Gizmodo, the G1 finally made an appearance on the new series of 90120 on the CW network. This is good news for G1 owners who have felt that the iPhone has had way too much exposure on TV.

This could also be used as a marketing/advertising move to the younger generation, and saying that Android phones are in!

1. Connect your G1 to your computer via USB.
2. Create a ‘Music’ folder on your G1′s memory card. This can be named any name that you like, but something that you’ll remember where your music is stored.
3. Open up iTunes on your PC. When open, select the playlist that you want on your G1 and select all the songs in your playlist (this can be done by CRTL+A).
4. Drag the selected playlist to your G1. It will automatically be added to the “Devices” section on the left-hand pane when iTunes loaded.
5. When this has done, right click on the playlist and select “Export Song List.” When prompted, select the XML option and export the playlist to the Desktop (or any fast, and easy place).
6. Exit iTunes and download an XML playlist converter. One that I recommend can be found here.
7. In the converter, where it says iTunes Song List to Convert select the XML file that you saved to your computer and click the “Convert” button.
8. When the file has downloaded, you will need to rename it with an extension of .m3u, because it will not create the extension on download.
9. Go to the ‘Music’ folder we created in step 2 and place the .m3u file in there.

You will now have your iTunes playlist on your G1. Please leave feedback how this worked for you.

It is reasoned that the advertisement campaign has aimed for early Christmas present bargains, and that the campaign will reach nearly 85 million internet users.

A press release by the Platform-A was released today, which contained the following;“The innovation behind the T-Mobile Billion Block clearly demonstrates the value marketers place on the combination of reach, impact and innovation that only Platform-A can offer,” said Lynda Clarizio, President of Platform-A. “It also spotlights the role online media will play in the upcoming buying season, with strategic marketers like T-Mobile relying on the near-universal reach of Platform-A to connect with United States consumers in an effective, efficient and engaging way.”

Following up from the announcement, T-Mobile released the following statement about their ad campaign; “The T-Mobile G1 offers a rich, accessible mobile Web experience for the masses, so we want to drive that message to the broadest range of U.S. consumers possible,” said Brett Dennis, director, branded entertainment and media management, T-Mobile USA. “The groundbreaking experience of the T-Mobile G1 is really what motivated us to pursue this exceptional online advertising program.”

Platform-A is an advertisement subsidiary of AOL which utilizes all types of digital media to create a thematic ad campaign over AOL branded websites.

Optus, Telstra and 3 have all commented on the matter.

“We think that Android is an excellent platform and a number of mobile phone manufacturers will develop phones based on it,” said Doug Maloney, general manager, products and services at 3 later. “We’ll be keeping a close eye on it, but we don’t have any information on when these phones will reach Australia.”

Optus’ general manager of content and portals, Mark Mulder, did not directly answer the Android question. He said the telco had seen iPhone users embrace content and data, and was excited about the potential of Android to increase the trend. Optus had a strong relationship with Google and would continue to work with the search giant, the executive said. “Telstra will consider how an Android phone might fit into our range, as we would any new phone in the marketplace,” said Telstra spokesperson Peter Taylor.

Don’t hold your breath for a quick release Australians.

G1UnlockCodes.com was launched yesterday with the simple format of:

1. Submit your G1s IMEI number and your email.

2. Make payment (only $23.99)

And within 6-18 hours, you’re alerted when your 8 digit unlock code is ready! It’s a very simple concept, and the site is secure with an SSL and of course, an endorsement from G1Updates.com!

A lot of folks out there who are waiting to purchase G1 phone’s simply because they’re not sure about the unlocking process can rest easy now, as G1UnlockCodes.com is ready to serve you immediately. Customer support is great, and plenty of instruction is provided to make sure you submit the right numbers, and are able to successfully unlock your phone without issue.

Even Better News

In an effort to drum up some business, and get the word out about G1UnlockCodes.com, we’re giving away a free unlock code to one of our lucky readers! All you have to do is leave a comment in the comments section below expressing your interest, and we’ll randomly choose one person within the next 48 hours to give a code away to! Also, if you win, you must promise to take a picture of your phone showing that it’s unlocked.

So if you’re interested, again, just leave a comment below (and please leave a valid email address in the email address box (kept confidential), so we can get in touch if you’re the lucky winner.

Looking foward to hearing from you, and if you have any questions, just let us know!

If you don’t have time to wait, and want to unlock your G1 phone right now, then head on over to G1UnlockCodes.com right away!

Raising The Bar

What this means to competing mobile platforms is that they may have to step up their efforts if they want to keep pace with the big “G”. Google is known for throwing dollars at their pet projects and they have a lot more money to throw nowadays. This project has been many years in the making and it looks like it’s going to raise the bar for mobile platforms (just like Apple raised the bar for mobile phones  with the Iphone).

A small company from California

When Google decided to enter the mobile market, they wanted to acquire a company to do the coding for their platform since they had no experience in this, as yet, uncharted terrain. They chose the company “Android” (a tiny start-up company from Palo Alto, Ca) and used their mobile platform as the weapon of  choice in the mobile wars. The language is a mix of Java and Apache Harmony with Java implementation. Java purists agree that this is not a true Java language because it has compatibility issues and it’s missing the full class libraries and apis that normally come with Java ME or SE. Although for it’s mobile efforts, “Android”  is a great solution with many possibilities.

The road ahead

Only time will tell if Google will succeed with this mobile effort, but if their past conquests are any indicator then we should see them takeover the mobile playing grounds in a few years. So get ready for those annoying ads to hit your mobile phone. Additionally, Google predicts that their mobile ads will trump their home computer ads in a few years time. That’s quite a bold statement considering that the pc ad business generates revenue in the multi-billions. One thing is for sure though, consumers will have lots of mobile phone choices in the years to come. That is the most important factor in the end.

1. In outlook, click on file
2. go to import and export, click next
3. Choose export to a file, click next
4. Comma Separated values (Windows), click next
5. Select the folder to export from, Click next.
6. Log into your Gmail Calendar
7. click on the little add under “Other Calendars”
8. Click the import calendar link.
9. Browse to your file, click import and wait

Did this work for you? If you have any additional input, we’d love to hear about it!

]]> http://www.g1updates.com/2008/10/25/how-to-import-outlook-calendar-into-g1-gmail-calendar/feed/ 3 http://www.g1updates.com/2008/10/24/tips-for-extending-t-mobile-g1-battery-life/ http://www.g1updates.com/2008/10/24/tips-for-extending-t-mobile-g1-battery-life/#comments Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:44:55 +0000 Ryan http://g1updates.com/?p=101 Like most hot gadgets these days, we still haven’t progressed as a society to a point where we have available a battery that will last for more than a few hours. This mystifies me, and is quite upsetting when you think about it.

Seriously, so I can jump on the internet from my G1 smartphone, buy stuff off of ebay, listen to music, GPS, and all the other wicked cool features, but I can’t do it for more than a few hour because my batter is completely sucked dry. Lame. Does the battery industry have some major lobbying going on somewhere to keep down battery cell technology? Maybe we’ll look into that…

In the mean time, if you’re looking for a way to conserve battery power on your T-Mobile G1 phone, here are a few tips that you can use to gain up to a few extra hours on your battery. This could come in handy, especially if you don’t have a charger next to you at all times.

Tips To Extending Your G1 Battery (thanks to my friends at G1 Forum):

1. Lower your screen brightness to the lowest possible setting. The screen should still be plenty bright, and it will make a big difference in batter life.

2. Leave the GPS Satellite setting off when not using it (which is most of the time).

3. Change the backlight to “less than 2 minutes”.

4. Try using vibrate if you can, as it’s been reported that it uses less battery power than a ringtone.

5. Turn off Wi-Fi when you don’t need it.

6. Turn off Blue Tooth when you don’t need it.

7. Get a car charger, cause yeah, you’ll need it!

8. 3g off, and use Edge.

9. Turn off all auto-sync for emails, contacts, etc…

10. Pick up a spare battery!

That’s all for now, if you have any additional tips or clarification, by all means please let us know! The G1 battery issue seems to be one of the most widespread complaints so far, and if we all help each other out, maybe we can come up with a solution.

Note: Here is more extensive reading about the battery and G1 user experiences so far.

Perhaps you’re with AT&T or Verizon, and you want to get in on that sweet Android G1 action.

We have a feeling that anyone who can legally get their hands on unlock codes for the G1 will be selling them faster than Paris Hilton sold her “extracirricular” tape a few years back.

As a matter of fact, while writing this post, I just did a quick check on ebay, and we can confirm that G1 unlock codes are being sold now by the dozens, if not hundreds!

Legally Unlock Your G1 Phone Here!

It appears that the average price of a T-Mobile G1 unlock code is around $30. Will the price go up or down in the next few days? I guess it all depends on how many wannabe G1 users wanna shell out for it. Honestly, $30 to get your phone legally unlocked is a pretty sweet deal, considering the fiasco with the iphone unlocking craze (which left many poor souls with a “bricked” cell phone).

So if you’re in the market for an unlocked G1 phone, and you aren’t currently with T-Mobile and/or never plan to be, then it might be wise to snatch up a code on ebay while they’re still available. Who knows, if 3 million people tomorrow decide to get on (who are with other providers) you may be searching long and hard for an available code, or worse yet, you’ll have to pay 10 times what it’s worth!