Google, T-Mobile G1: World's First Android Phone
It was announced the released of world’s first Android Operating System in the mobile market, a partnership of Google and T-Mobile on October 22, 2008 initially for T-Mobile subscribers in United States only. No word if it will be available for prepaid subscribers and release in Asia (especially in the Philippines).
Google G1 Features:
- One touch Google search
- Touch screen
- Customizable home screen
- Run by Android OS (Operating System) – Android is the mobile operating system on the T-Mobile G1. It allows developers from around the world to create new and exciting applications that can easily be loaded onto the phone from the Android Market.
- Full QWERTY keyboard – slide open the screen to use the keyboard
- 3 megapixel camera
- comes with 1GB memory card
- Google pre-installed application:
- Google Search
- Google Maps
- Gmail
- Google Calendar
- Google Talk
- YouTube
- 3G, EDGE and Wi-Fi connections
Google G1 costs $179 with 2-year voice and data agreement (T-mobile) is cheaper than iPhone 3G. Nobody will think that there’s no competition between Apple’s iPhone 3G and Google’s T-mobile G1. For sure, the price would be much higher in my country just like iPhone 3G. How about mobile ebook on this smartphone? I’m sure online mobile ebook reading will be a wonderful experience. 
N70, AdMob's Top Smartphone For August
AdMob’s latest mobile metric report for the month of August revealed the following:
- Nokia had 62.4 percent of worldwide smartphone traffic in August, with more than 50 percent in every region except North America. In the US, Nokia does not have a top 20 ranked smartphone.
- RIM is in second place worldwide with 10.8 percent of smartphone traffic with the large majority of that coming from North America. RIM leads in the US with 31.2 percent of smartphone traffic and manufactures three of the top 10 devices.
- The top five smartphones in the US – the BlackBerry Pearl, Palm Centro, BlackBerry Curve, Apple iPhone, and Samsung Instinct – generated 12.9 percent of all US traffic in August, a 2.4 percent increase over July.
I checked on the August AdMob Mobile Metric report, I’m interested on the top mobile brand and model worldwide.
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How I Started On Mobile eBooks
Four years ago, I was an active member of a girl forum. Most of the topics were mostly women’s talk, one thread caught my attention. It was Harry Potter’s comparison between the movie & the book. They’ve said, book version was far better than the movie. I want to disagree but I haven’t read any book of Harry Potter series. I want to have a copy but I cant afford it at that time. Then I searched for an alternative option, I saw a link on that forum, one of the member share her pdf copy of HP books. I’ve download them and researched on how can I have them read on my mobile phone, I was using Nokia 3650 at that time.
Since I’m into blogging already, I asked almost all of the co-bloggers for help. Sad to say, nobody got the answers. Buying a PDA was neither an option. There must be a solution! hehehe… I saw a thread at the “for sale” section of that forum. She’s selling ebooks as sideline, ebooks at 10php each in different formats. Order a minimum of 10 ebooks @ 10php (promo). Regular price was 50php per ebook. Have to try them first if its possible so I’ve ordered ebooks in pdb format. Why pdb? Because buyers order ebooks for their pc or pda. *.pdf for pc and *.pdb for pda.
After I’ve received the files through email, I saved them on my email’s briefcase, went to my cousin’s internet shop. I don’t have my own PC at that time. He have this bluetooth service on his shop, my suggestion actually. Anyway, he sent the files to my cellphone via bluetooth. Then I searched for a mobile application that reads pdb files. I saw handybook reader, installed it and used it for my purchased ebooks. And that’s how my mobile ebook reading hobby started.
What’s Your Mobile Requirements?
When we’re on the lookout for a new cellphone, we have certain requirements before deciding which brand and model we buy. And that requirements depends on our needs, lifestyle, hobbies, etc. Before going to cellphone shop, it is better that we take a look first the specification of mobile phones on the web before going to see the actial phone units. These are the things I consider:
- Internal or cellphone memory size – the flash memory or the internal memory divided into two parts. The operating system and the user data. The larger the flash memory size, the better. I love browsing the web using Opera, I need large RAM in doing so.
- Multimedia Card or MMC capacity – this is the extended memory of the phone. Some mobile phones doesn’t have or require MMC for many reasons.
- Built-in camera megapixel – usually, older mobile models have lower camera megapixel. I seldom use the built-in camera but when I use it I want quality pictures since I don’t usually bring my digicam.
- Built-in application – most of the sites I browsed doesn’t include the details of the built-in application installed on the unit. I asked for brochures or flyers in the cellphone shops to know these things. (eg. radio, MP3 player)
- OS or Operating System – this is the most important thing you shouldn’t miss!
Customizing Opera
This is how my opera homepage looks like, haven’t got time to update this for quite sometime. 2 or 3 years ago, I’ve read an article from a mobile co-blogger that Opera homepage can be edited. Of course, I’m intrigued and challenged.
Why do I want my Opera browser customized?
- I got bored easily with the default homepage.
- I want colors and graphics.
- I want my bookmarks included on the html pages.
- I want it suited to my needs.
I’m using Opera 8.65 now with minimal bookmarks saved. These are new bookmarks that I haven’t included on my html pages yet. My homepage consists of Google search engine, links to 5 more personalized html pages, css and links to some of my mobile accounts. The layout had a transparent image background (just like others did to their friendster accounts), marquees, animated buttons, etc. For the record, I’ve started from scratch since at that time I don’t know any html, css and javascript codes. Some modifications followed as I learned html codes. In fact, some are doing this for their Opera desktop. A little googling around, you’ll find some tutorials on customizing Opera desktop.
