Comments on: Cupcake Coming To G1 In April!

By: nichole

nichole — Sat, 02 May 2009 06:32:35 +0000

Well, its May… Where is cupcake?

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:52:41 +0000

I have all the stuff turned on and my battery life is fine!! There is a book that several Android Developers need to read about how to properly code your application and how to think about programming it for power consumption. I have found that a few apps just suck the life out of the phone, and those get a 1 star rating and uninstalled as soon as I come across them. I urge anyone else to do the same. So April is almost gone where is this infamous Cupcake? :)
Cheers!

By: noah

noah — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:37:02 +0000

Jeez why is everyone hatin on the battery life? Ever since i downloaded the battery app(duh) mines been great, i can usually go 2 even 3 days without charging it and it works fine. The only thing I’m really looking forward to is the virtual keyboard, trying to text and drive or text in class is just about impossible with having to open it out completely. I’ve downloaded just about every one i can on the market and the only one that has any promise is the droidsans virtual keyboard, if they just make that the keyboard and put the existing messagin format above it, i’ll be uber happy

By: jusplayinmybass

jusplayinmybass — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:38:29 +0000

People. Quit crying about the battery. If you turn off some of the features on the phone when not in use, namely 3G, GPS, wifi, bluetooth, and dim the screen, you will have decent battery life. All of these features are battery hogs. I have heard that 3G phones have bad battery life in general. And I couldn’t leave the wifi on my MDA on all the time. So what makes you think that the G1 is any different. The battery has a lot of stuff drawing on it. Learn how to manage those things, and battery life will increase greatly.

By: bpw

bpw — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:39:07 +0000

FIX THE BATTERY LIFE PROBLEM. Until that is remedied I can’t get excited about anything.

By: mfrey0118

mfrey0118 — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:13:18 +0000

Yeah, flash by end of March, Jim H? Sounds like the same crap they fed us about flash being available in January. Look, Adobe itself has said NO FLASH FOR ANDROID UNTIL IPHONE GETS IT BECAUSE IT IS IN THEIR CONTRACT WITH APPLE AND WE WON’T SEE OFFICIAL FLASH SUPPORT UNTIL END OF 2009.

Why do you say we get flash at end of this month when everyone in the actual companies say no? This is the kind of stupid rumor crap that makes the Android community look like a bunch of whiny 12 year olds sitting at their pc’s with cum stains on their blankets and half empty bottles of Coke strewn around their desks…

Come at me with some real info next time. If I sound hostile it is because Google, HTC, and Adobe have turned a brilliant idea with so much potential into a “Why the frack did they do it this way..?” debacle.

By: crizznaig

crizznaig — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:57:19 +0000

Wow the ppl who are all like zomg 9 year old coulda wrote it, and iphone has all it’s bugs etc etc… open source isn’t bull shit.. it’s a great concept…

just a big bunch of haters…

By: Jim H

Jim H — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:52:40 +0000

In the previous comment I meant operating memory not menu.

By: Jim H

Jim H — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:50:17 +0000

Jon po you do sound a bit disgruntled… I too have issues with the G1 but as the first android phone it is pretty good. At least we won’t be “appled” into buying a whole new phone for updates, the new purchase will be our choice.

I also spoke with a T-Mobile rep who indicated that although the “main parts” of cupcake would make it to the g1 that the operating menu wasn’t large enough for all. He stated everything in this article except when I asked about stereo bluetooth. He could not confirm it.

He did however also inform me that flash was coming avail late march.

Although the G1 doesn’t do what my windows mobile did, it has other features and is quickly gaining the others.

By: glenn

glenn — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:01:14 +0000

Jon po, you sound like an unhappy fella. Chill out man.

What’s your problem with open source? Interested in hearing your actual issues with it all.

We’ve developed for iphone, nokia and android and as a developer its clear to us that android is a much better platform and is coming along very nicely. Early days yet too.

Just interested in hearing what your problems with the platform are that make u say those things, or is it just a general dislike you have? Believe me, as a developer the open adroid os is far less restricting than when we developed for iphone. As an owner of iphone and g1 I know which I prefer, both as a user and developer.

We develope bespoke apps for companies in the uk and as soon as g1 became available we not had a single client ask for iphone over it. So some people must be happy.

G
Tinylion development uk

By: Jon Po

Jon Po — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:02:15 +0000

Oh another thing people, HTC Magic will only be released in Europe, leaving the U.S stuck with this BEHEMOTH called the G1 till god knows when.

By: Jon Po

Jon Po — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:58:12 +0000

People have been waiting for nearly for months for a stupid ass on-screen keyboard that a nine year old child can make. These dev’s plus HTC, Android and tmobile have fooled the public in to buying a device with software no where near completion. Amazing how Iphone came out and whatever bugs it had were fixed quickly, on top of everything the whole “open source idea” is a load of bullshit. This OS has just as many restrictions as the Iphone. Dont be fooled either as “Cupcake” will likly never even be released for the G1. Just saying, dont get your hopes up!

By: Nora

Nora — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:17:40 +0000

I just want them to come out with a battery, same size as the one that originally comes with the G1, that has long life..I bought the extended battery, but its kinda bulky and the battery door it come with looks and feels so cheap.
Hopefully they fix this soon :)

By: deezle

deezle — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:46:05 +0000

Agree with “namo”.Without flash,regular email is about as frustrating as it gets!Having to open and close each attachment one by one?ctfo!!

By: Magnito

Magnito — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:59:50 +0000

Again? probably April fools day…