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HTC takes us back to 2008, HTC Dream bootloader now unlockable

If you’ve been around the Android world for a while, you may remember the HTC Dream aka the T-Mobile G1. Heck, some of you might still have one laying in a drawer somewhere gathering dust. Well, HTC hasn’t forgotten about the very first Android ...
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Cyanogenmod reaches over a million unique users

Perhaps the most popular custom Android ROM in the world, the mighty CyanogenMod just reached a major milestone last night. Over one million unique installs. Although it may be relatively small percentage-wise to the entire Android ecosphere, a million ...
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Back from the grave: T-Mobile G1 receives a (mostly) working port of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

  T-Mobile’s G1 (aka the HTC Dream) was the very first Android phone, now over 4 years old. That doesn’t stop ambitious developers from keeping it updated, well sorta. The G1 has recently received a semi-working port of Android 4.0 ...
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Three years ago, on September 23rd, the T-Mobile G1 was announced

  Hard to believe it’s been 3 years since the first Android phone, the HTC T-Mobile G1 was announced and the world got their first taste of Android. Since then Android has exploded in popularity and matured a lot as a mobile OS. Anyone out ...
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T-Mobile G2 officially discontinued, joins the G1 in QWERTY phone retirement home

Well that didn’t take long at all. It wasn’t just a few days ago that we heard the T-Mobile G2 was on the watch list for reaching the end of its life. And now we have official word that as of 6/6/11 the QWERTY packing G2 has been discontinued. ...

Google Earth, now with more Honeycomb

One of the very first apps I ever saw demoed on Android was Google Earth. Just the image of the Earth spinning around on the G1 screen was phenomenal. Fast forward to today and now screens have grown to 10.1 inches and tablets are all the rage. Google ...

CyanogenMod officially ending support for the HTC Dream and HTC Magic

First off, I found it amazing that a third party developer would support old hardware for so long. The HTC Dream (aka T-Mobile G1) and the HTC Magic (aka Sapphire aka T-Mobile MyTouch 3G) have been around over two years. Even T-Mobile stopped already ...

Running Ubuntu 9.10 on the Motorola XOOM

Running different flavors of Linux on Android is nothing now, even the T-Mobile G1 saw a port of Ubuntu back in the day. The latest entrant in this category is running Ubuntu 9.10 on the Motorola XOOM. It runs through a virtual machine of sorts and keeps ...

Developers prove Honeycomb runs on low-end devices, ported to HTC G1, Magic and Wildfire

Remember all those rumors saying Honeycomb would require this hardware or that, dual core or certain screen size? And that it was for tablets only? Yeah, we remember too. So far there’s only a handful of devices running Honeycomb out of the box, ...

The best Android phone buying advice you will ever read

Many of you are readers of Gizmodo I’m sure. They’re one of the 800lb gorillas in the tech blog world and hard to ignore. But you may have missed a short little post yesterday about the CLIQ XT upgrade (or lack thereof) that I want to make ...
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