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Paid Android Market apps blocked from unlocked G1s

article published on 26 February, 2009

Last December, Google announced that they were selling an unlocked Android Dev Phone 1 for $399 USD. The mobile phone was the first Android-based phone to be both SIM-unlocked and hardware-unlocked and available to the public. Today, Google changed the terms of the Android Market however, blocking owners of the Dev Phone from downloading and paid applications from the store. When ... [ read the full article ]

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26. February 2009 @ 22:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
this is the point where i demand a refund or sue them.
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27. February 2009 @ 02:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
can some one explain what does motorola have to do with this article??
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27. February 2009 @ 18:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by jean2006:
can some one explain what does motorola have to do with this article??
Google, just produces the OS, Motorola is carrying the phone, that the OS goes onto I'd assume, its a reasonable response but they shouldn't've released Dev. phones in the first place, and trust me someone will create a workaround, let the backwards engineering begin!
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27. February 2009 @ 18:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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Originally posted by jean2006:
can some one explain what does motorola have to do with this article??
Google, just produces the OS, Motorola is carrying the phone, that the OS goes onto I'd assume, its a reasonable response but they shouldn't've released Dev. phones in the first place, and trust me someone will create a workaround, let the backwards engineering begin!
i think the g1 is made by htc not motorola

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27. February 2009 @ 23:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Motorola Makes the phone, Google makes the OS. and it just happens to be compatible with G1 Network
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3. March 2009 @ 05:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Errmm no, look:

http://www.shekhargovindarajan.com/googl...buy-an-android/

The Dev Phone 1 and The G1 are both the same, made by HTC and use the Qualcomm® MSM7201A?, 528 MHz CPU

http://www.htc.com/www/product/dream/overview.html

Where the hell does Moto come into this ??
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