Long-running concerns about privacy and mobile phones are finding a new outlet: Google (NSDQ: GOOG). USA Today has a long piece about the G1 that argues that Google is a particular threat because of its size. But I don’t follow this: If the information can’t be linked to an individual…

T-Mobile USA has confirmed in an online forum that it has started to push out an update to its G1 users. The update, version 1.1, looks like it fixes a number of bugs, but also adds a couple of new features. The most exciting is that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is…

It’s becoming clearer by the quarter that most wireless operators simply don’t have a phone or user experience that can compete with the iPhone. The financial results reported by the top three U.S. carriers this past week offered the latest evidence, with AT&T (NYSE: T) being the exception: AT&T continued…

The day after we heard that HTC expects to sell more than it previous expectation of one million Android devices by year-end, we now hear that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is passing out the T-Mobile G1’s to employees as a holiday bonus. Valleywag reports that in the past, the search engine…

T-Mobile G1 users be warned: some third-party applications will continue to run in the background, even if you have turned your data roaming settings off. T-Mobile USA issued a statement today (picked up by Engadget) that said customers could get slammed with expensive data roaming charges if they’re not careful…

Just a short month after the launch of the G1 in the UK, T-Mobile, its exclusive carrier, has cut the price of the tariff in order to keep the handset competitive with other high end smartphones—it is not a reaction to poor sales, reports Mobiletoday.co.uk. The G1 is now free…

—HTC: 1 million G1s by end of year: HTC’s CEO Peter Chou has upped the ante and is now projecting T-Mobile will sell one million G1s by the end of the year, DigiTimes reports. Last month, Chou predicted HTC would sell 600,000 G1 devices by the end of the year.…

—Sprint (NYSE: S) not sold on Android: Sprint Nextel’s CEO Dan Hesse is questioning whether Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android is ready for prime time. He told the National Press Club in that he didn’t think Android in its current form is ”good enough to put the Sprint brand on it,”…

HTC is finally going public with the number of G1 phones it expects to sell by the end of the year—600,000 is the figure it is offering up. But is the company intentionally lowballing its forecast? Sales projections are a tricky game for device manufacturers. It’s an opportunity for companies…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and T-Mobile USA’s position on the G1 not supporting Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Exchange is that sooner or later a developer will build it and offer it to the community. Well, sure enough, two companies Wrike and Intermedia have teamed up to solve one component of that—syncing your…

We’ve been expecting a big advertising push to introduce the first Google-branded cellphone and we haven’t seen much yet except for some informational videos shot by Google (NSDQ: GOOG) employees. That’s all about to change, T-Mobile’s marketing head Denny Marie Post tells WSJ in an interview, T-Mobile’s adopted a premise…

I’m not sure if it’s a sign of tough economic times or a lack of cool, but I was a little surprised to be the first G1 customer in line today. I stopped at a T-Mobile store in Laguna Niguel, Calif. on my way down to the WebbyConnect conference and…

T-Mobile releases the G1 at retail stores today and is opening stores at 8 a.m. to kick things off early. The first ever Google-branded device is being sold only in areas where T-Mobile has 3G coverage, which includes a list of around 95 cities (people outside the 3G territory can…

This morning we asked the question, will people line up for the T-Mobile G1, the first Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android phone? Well, it appears the answer is yes. This evening, a line has formed in front of a T-Mobile store in San Francisco, which is opening at 6 p.m. to…

UPDATE: A Google (NSDQ: GOOG) spokesperson told me today that the Android Market that reporters had been experiencing with their demo phones is an early version and therefore it’s changing as it gets ready to officially launch. “We need to be sure that a few of the 3rd party apps…

Yesterday, we gave you our impressions of the first Google (NSDQ: GOOG) phone called the T-Mobile G1. Our high-level conclusion was that the device rivals the iPhone in fun, and offers an unparalleled experience when it comes to customization, but because of its flexibility suffers a bit when it comes…

To get the excitement rolling for the upcoming availability of the first Google (NSDQ: GOOG) phone, T-Mobile USA has planted a number of devices in the hands of a select group of reporters, and I was lucky enough to get my hands on one. Over the past few days, I…

T-Mobile’s G1 smartphone with Google’s open-source Android platform will be available from UK T-Mobile shops from October 30, before going on sale across Europe - a slight advance on its initial “early November” estimate. The phone is free on contracts costing from £40 a month and comes with touch-screen, QWERTY,…

We’re still 10 days out before the first Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android phone hits the streets and T-Mobile has already sold 1.5 million G1s in pre-orders, The Motley Fool reports. The carrier is also preparing to have another couple million G1s available at retail stores beginning Oct. 22. The G1…