Mobilegear.com reports on a possible product launch by T-Mobile in the USA on April 21 - not much is known yet, but T-Mobile has apparently prepared journalists and bloggers for something to be unveiled on April 21. Logically, people are now puzzling over what T-Mobile will present. For example, a new Sidekick or the T-Mobile interpretation [...]
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Vodafone's answer to the T-Mobile G1, the HTC Magic, will apparently not arrive until April 17. This is reported by various blogs, including mobilegear.com, engadget.com and talkandroid.com. The latter also has a screenshot that confirms the date. Although this only applies to Vodafone's home country of England for the time being, the HTC Magic will probably be available in other countries.
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Applications can now also be purchased in the German Android Market - previously this was only possible in the USA. This gives developers a further incentive to create applications for the G1, and more complex applications are also likely to come onto the market in the near future. The only restriction at present is that only US developers can currently
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According to Crunchgear.com, HTC's dominance of Android phones will be broken by Samsung in 2009. Samsung is set to launch an Android phone on the market this summer. Details are not yet known, but it can be assumed that Samsung will adapt the user interface and operation. Thanks to the open source approach, this is possible without any further problems.
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Crunchgear.com has the latest news that Google has apparently decided to reinstate tethering apps in the Android Market. However, this change of heart is not without restrictions. According to Crunchgear.com, the terms of use prohibit the tethering apps from being offered on T-Mobile US (which probably also applies to T-Mobile Germany). So apparently only G1 users without T-Mobile as their carrier can
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Google's Android is actually an open operating system for cell phones and other mobile devices. However, the openness ends with the Market. Various tethering applications (which turn an Android phone like the T-Mobile G1 into a Wi-Fi access point) have disappeared from the Android Market. Dailytech.com and Techcrunch.com report that Google took this measure at the insistence of T-Mobile - logical, because
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