April 30th, 2009
T-Mobile rolling out Android 1.5 cupcake update to G1 owners
A couple of days ago I mentioned that the Android 1.5 update was available for Android Developer Phone models of the G1. According to Brighthand T-Mobile USA and UK have started to roll this update out to T-Mobile G1 owners over the air. Some people are reporting that the update arrived last night, but I haven’t seen mine updated yet and the last time there was an update I didn’t get it for a week or so and I was one of the first to buy the G1.
Some of the updates in version 1.5 include an on-screen keyboard, new Home screen widget support, support for video playback and video capture, upload of videos directly to YouTube, A2DP Bluetooth stereo support, and more. As I mentioned, I rooted my G1 and updated already and find the improvements are nice to have. I understand that rooting or modifying your G1 may prevent the OTA update from appearing so I spent some time getting my G1 back into factory order and may not mess around with it anymore. I plan to install the official T-Mobile update though since a few pieces are missing in the HTC developer update, including Amazon MP3, all the IM clients, and more.
Matthew Miller is an avid mobile device enthusiast who works during the day as a professional naval architect in Seattle. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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