Today I received UPS package with my new G1 with the Android on board. Oh, I love that thing! When I look at my old Nokia E61 now, it’s feels so… crappy, especially Symbian compared to Android. Anyway, G1 hardware feels much better in hand than on the pictures, in fact it’s perfect. One important thing I had to do was to unlock it, because I am not T-Mobile customer here in Czech republic, but I use O2 network. Of course I found www.unlock-tmobileg1.com site that claims that they are able to provide you the unlock code based on IMEI of your phone for $23.99. I was little bit afraid, because several blogs stated that GMail account and Market app will stop working probably, but on the other hand it seemed to me to be just some stupid rumor from somebody who forgot to change Access Point after he unlocked phone for his other provider. So at 5:44PM I ordered the code, paid with PayPal and at 7:32PM I received email with it, unlocked phone and now I am online under O2 (using GMail and Market happily of course). Of course, I’ll play with nbandroid and try to deploy apps directly from NetBeans.
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Awesome, Martin, congrats !!! I’ve been so tempted to get one of these puppies, but I definitely don’t want to switch to T-Mobile and I was quite concerned about the issues that others reported after unlocking their phone. I also read that T-Mobile stores wouldn’t sell it without a contract. Did you have any issues w/ that ? Where did you get it from ? Please do report on how things are working out for you w/ your G1, maybe I’ll make the jump myself (although I love my E61i, a mobile phone w/ Linux & Java on it is just a killer proposition)
I am actually interested in the progress of nbandroid. I would love to here a little more about the progress and how mature it is. I can’t wait to get my G1 so I can start testing on a real device!
I own a Nokia E61 now. Going by you, I *must* own a G1 soon :-) That would be great!
@Alex: I bought it from local T-Mobile employee (he used that for 2 days, didn’t even unpack the accessories), so I’m not sure how it works officially. So far everything works perfectly, I didn’t find any issues.
@Adam: I will post some status in next blog entry. It’s getting better and better :-)
@Amit: you will be impressed by that change, I am sure!
Does Android has Java ME support?
I heard it’s codes written in Java semantics but not completely Java ME, so it may not support Java ME!
Congrats!
It’s great to hear that the unlocking site really works, I must think about it as well (though I use T-Mobile CZ, I have a Vodafone SIM card as well).
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