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This is T-Mobile’s first commercial advertising the G1. “Questions.”
T-Mobile’s “Shark” commercial for the G1.
Another G1 commercial from T-Mobile. “Hot Dog.”

 
Thanks to living_sword over at ModMyGphone, it looks as though the age of skinned Android phones has begun. Thus far, the mod requires a Jailbroken phone and the status icons are the only items to be altered.
 
The process is a bit complicated, but hopefully an application will be developed to allow for easy theme changes. 
Skinning [...]

I am currently using a G1 on a T-Mobile account with the Total Internet add-on. Up until today, everything has worked flawlessly. This morning I started receiving the below message in the web browser when trying to acces the internet:
Plan Required
Your current plan is not compatible with the T-Mobile G1. Please visit T-Mobile.com from your [...]

Google responded quickly to the recent security breach on the G1. The company is pushing an update to close this hole in the next few days.
From Google:
We’ve been notified of this issue (Jailbreaking of Android) and have developed a fix. We’re currently working with our partners to push the fix out and updating the open [...]

Quite a few people have reviewed the T-Mobile G1. Below are some of the more popular and in-depth reviews:
The Boy Genius Report
PCWorld
PhoneNews
ZDnet
Chicago Tribune
MSNBC
All Things Digital
CrunchGear
Mobileburn
Engadget
PhoneScoop
Gizmodo
BoingBoing Gadgets

 
While the idea of having to ‘Jailbreak’ an open system seems a little redundant, it is a necessary step for those wishing to gain root access to their devices. Lukily, instructions have been posted in the XDA -developers forums for accomplishing this feat. It seems the method relys on a loophole in the PTerminal application.
 
Basically [...]

FBReaderJ is a new ebook reader available for the Android platform. It is a clone of FBReader, which has been previously released on a number of platforms. Currently the app supports a limited number of formats, but hopefully this will expand with further releases. 
Features:
 

Supports oeb, epub, fb2 formats
Can read directly from zip, tar, and gzip [...]

A post over at Tmonews Forums outlines a method for sharing the G1’s internet connection over USB. The method isn’t exactly plug-and-play, but is a step in the right direction. 
Here are the instructions:
 

Install the app on your android phone, by clicking here (from your phone browser of course)
You might have to change your settings to permit apps [...]

According to a Meebo developer blog, Meebo is planning to release an Android version of their IM client on November 7th. This is a Java implementation of the Meebo platform, rather than the web-based JavaScript client currently available. Basically, a frontend for talking to Meebo’s servers, who then talk to the IM networks. This provides [...]

The T-Mobile G1 is currently sitting at fifth place in Time’s Gadget of the Year poll.  The G1 is the only mobile phone on the list, but the current top five are all internet enabled devices.
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