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Having a rooted phone means you can do tricks like setting up a 3g/wifi bridge. The process starts by using a rooting app to revert the phone to the rc29 build. then using the “android stupidly executes everything you type” exploit to launch telnetd and upgrade the bootloader. After that, the upgrade process is fairly easy. Just flash a new baseband and build. once you’ve got your new custom firmware, you can do future updates using an app from the android market.
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It might not be because they are secure, but simply because the ROI is just a mere phone handset! Add to that the device, OS, and carrier variations.
Read more here:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/25/1238246&from=rss
and here:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Mobile+and+Wireless&articleId=9130346&taxonomyId=15&pageNumber=1
We acquired the domain names AndroidForensics.com and AndroidHack.com . Both domain names should take you to MySecured.com for now. We might dedicate the Android Forensics domain in the future to a website catering specifically to the Forensics of Android-Based Cellular Phones. The Android Hack domain name will be probably dedicated to the Hacks and Mods for the Android Based mobile phones and other devices such as netbooks and laptops.
Try the domain names now:
http://www.androidforensics.com
http://www.androidhack.com
It can be done!
For more information on the harmless totally-reversable hack, go to:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/10/video-android-rocking-on-the-htc-touch/
Get the hack and instructions directly from xda developers here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=382265
You can customize the color of your T-Mobile G1, the Google Android based phone at Colorware Custom. This is the design I did with custom Metallic Paints for all colors except for the yellow which is a solid color called “Caution”:
http://www.colorwarepc.com/p-170-tmobile-g1.aspx?2081=candy_apple&2082=alpine&2083=caution&2084=midnight
BTW, the phones are unlocked which means that they can be used with any carrier and not only T-Mobile.
As far as I know, this is the first Chinese made Android based phone apart from T-Mobile G1. There is an Australian company that is planning to release their own Android Based mobile phone by xmas. The link for that is here.
It does not have a physical keyboard!
The official site:
http://mysciphone.com/G2Specia.asp
I found a phone on ebay.
AKA Ben Stein vs. The Man on the Street:
Geography:
It’s the two hottest touch-screen phones duking it out. Can the new kid on the block take down the champ?
Want to learn how to upgrade your Android to RC30 and get root access on it? get a step-by-step guide here:
http://modmygphone.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Here is a sample video of Noise Alert:
For more videos visit the website:
http://www.androidapps.com/
For Apple iPhone App reviews, visit AppVee’s iPhone website at:
http://www.appvee.com/
A good start is Google’s own documentation page:
http://code.google.com/android/documentation.html
Books are another good source for step-by-step development. One Andoid book that I read is:
ANDROID A PROGRAMMERS GUIDE (Paperback)
It guides you through installing Eclipse, Android SDK and all the different steps that lead you into developing a “Friend Finder” application.
Other books of interest that i found on Amazon include:
I love David Pogue… He gave us the iPhone Music Video when the iPhone first came out 
See it again here:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=vniMR6Ez9cE
Just watch 
The founders of google missing around with the Android and writing their own applications for it. This includes an application that uses the hardware sensors on the phone. This is an invite to all geeks to hack their Android phones. It’s not like you needed an invite or anything… but it is a good thing to have nevertheless.
Fun Fact: Notice that one of them calls “Android Market” the “App Store”…! I guess one of them was using the iPhone too much
People living in Australia can get their hands on a T-Mobile G1 via eBay.com. They will be able to use the 3G HSDPA fuctionality on Carriers other than Telstra though. For 3G connectivity, the G1 will work only if the carrier’s network uses the 2100MHz frequency band. Currently those carriers include Vodafone, Optus and Three. Telstra’s Next G network runs on the 850MHz frequency so it’s not supported.
For more information, read on:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/biztech/google-phone-hits-australia-via-ebay/2008/10/29/1224956120782.html
Get more information about this application and much more on Android’s Developer blog.
Also, visit Google Code Pages for Android.
Google Marketplace is where developers can easily publish and distribute their applications directly to users of Android-compatible phones including the T-Mobile G1.
In an article in The Register, Google defends limiting accress to Non-Marketplace applications to the following:
At this point, we think it is too dangerous to give a third party application blanket access to install applications without the user being involved. That may change in the future, but for now that is the way it is.
Read more about it in the article.
The first ever Android was released in the USA in November but as in the previous post here on Mysecured.com, there were no people linening up outside of shops there!… The T-Mobile G1 was released in the UK yesterday (October 30th), with about the same results as the US launch… No one seems to be interested in it so far.
The week the same still holds even after reports show that the phone has been unlocked as shown in the video below:
Is this about to change here in Australia? Well, I’ve asked around and it seems like people were holding back on buying the US version of the G1 because they though it was using different 3G bands than the ones Australian telecoms use. But they thought that UK version will use the same frequencies as the Ausie carriers but so far there are no UK version T-Mobile G1s on sale on eBay UK.
Buyers here in Australia might be more interested in buying the UK version of the G1 but for now they have no choice but to wait for some of them to be either available on eBay. There is another choice however which is to buy an proprietary Android phone from an Australian technology company Kogan Technologies which will start selling their in house Chinese manufactured Android based phones that will go on sale on December 15 for $199 AUD.
For more details on that story go to:
The Age.
In other reports, people just don’t see that the G1 is either open source nor ground breaking. Wired Magazine notes that the phone has restricted use of VOIP technology as in this article:
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/09/g1-android-phon.html
On the G1, T-Mobile customers will be the first to check out about 50 available applications. T-Mobile says that all apps are free until 2009. Here is a look at the top 15 out of those.
The one that scares me is the sex offender warning application. It tells you where your G1-carrying daughter or grandma are and how far and in which direction is the nearest registered sex offender to them!
See what I mean by watching the demo here:
http://www.freefamilywatch.com/demo.html
Follow the link for the story and pictures:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/152384/in_pictures_15_killer_android_apps_for_the_g1.html
The beggest selling points for the Android and the G1 in my openion are the simultanious execution of applications and street level on google maps. Who needs any of these?!
You can run applications in the background on iPhone by using the Cydia app Backgrounder and you can use google earth for now to get street level pictures and wait for 2.2 iPhone software for full street view capabilities
I am sticking to my iPhone for now Gotta love the big screen and the safari browser responsiveness and page browsing speed.
The people behind modmyi.com have an Android Forum but it doesn’t seem to have as much interest as the iPhone:
http://www.modmygphone.com/forums/index.php
I won’t judge the Android Platform yet though, I’ll give it six months 
According to the article below, iPhone 2.2 beta which was provided to developers contained an Android-like Street View capability within the Google Maps App.
I Don’t know about you, but to me, it seemed like the street view feature was one of the most attractive features that Google used in selling the Android platform to consumers. I personally see a great potential in Android for app development but I still think that the iPhone will keep on keeping on especially after the dropped the NDA requirement for app developers
Here is a link to the T-Mobile G1 website where you can play around with a basic emulator without having to download the SDK. You can also get a basic guide on features here:
http://tmobile.modeaondemand.com/htc/g1/
A more functional emulator can be downloaded with the Android SDK here:
http://code.google.com/android/reference/emulator.html
Finally here is a good video Introduction on Android OS for Developers. A must see if you have anything to do with the Android Platform(WARNING: 52 MINUTES LONG!):
More demo videos on user interface and applications can be found on the Android developer site:
http://code.google.com/android/index.html
Here is one of them to get you started:
It has street view
Also called “An Open Handset Alliance Project”. Here are some screen shots and a video preview of it from Gizmodo:
and video Preview:
The SDK can be downloaded from here:
