hardware
Android 1.5 (Cupcake) firmware

I recently wrote about my experiences with the Google G1 dev phone running the 1.1 Android firmware, and discussed a number of problems. Last night I obtained the just released 1.5 (cupcake) firmware and performed the upgrade. That all went smoothly, it helped to have done it before and working out the idiosyncrasies of the […]

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Free Software
Note to self: Why I dislike Windows

I am not a fan of Microsoft Windows, most people who know me appreciate this to be a slight understatement. But I've used Microsoft's products. Like many people I've often had no choice. I actually use Microsoft trackballs. It's quite an irony that the best thing I can say about the world's largest software company […]

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hardware
HTC Android G1

I obtained an HTC Android G1 dev phone to play with. I've been working with it for almost a week now, and so can post my initial thoughts. And they are quite seriously mixed. There are things about this phone that are just unbelievably good, but with some shockingly unbelievable flaws too, enough to possibly […]

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