My free Nexus One is going to ship

On Wednesday, Android Developers with an app in the market which has 5000 downloads and a rating of a minimum of 3.5 Stars out of five have been sent an email to register for a free Nexus One (or Droid within only within the US).

Bot of my apps fullfilled the requirement and so i´ve choosen the better one: InfoDroid.

Today i got my confirmation mail (see original mail at the bottom of the post), that i will get my free Nexus One and that i will receive my device in 2 – 4 weeks.

This is a really great gift from Google, but after all, a little bit funny for me especially since not living in one of the four countries, where google is shipping their Nexus One at the moment, but allready having one.

But i must say, that this is a rally great move from google to give away free phones for top devs. This provides every developer to go on with new apps on the newest system builds (2.0.1 for the Droid and 2.1 for the Nexus One).

So we will see a lot of new apps in the coming month which will all focus on the newer Versions.

For myself, i´m still updating my application InfoDroid like you my allready read on an eralier post.

So now, i only can say “thank you” to all the people who downloaded my app and made this possible.

Dear XXX,

We’ve received your information for the Android Market Device Seeding Program and have successfully validated the Google Order Number from your developer account.

Your information will now be sent to our shipping partner for order processing. Just to confirm, the information we received from you was:

XXX

XXX

XXX

XXX

XXX

XXX

XXX

If you need to make any changes to your information above, please contact us at android-market-seeding@google.com as soon as possible. Otherwise, you should receive your phone in 2-4 weeks!

On behalf of the Android team,

Thanks, and happy coding!

Google, Inc.

1600 Amphitheater Parkway

Mountain View, CA 94043

Nexus One Customisation

HI.

Since i got my nexus one, i couldn´n withstand to root and customise it again.

The rooting process is very easy on the Nexus One and can be done by really everyone.

For the moment, i go again like on my G1 with the Cyanogen Builds. I prefere them, because they run really stable, get frequently updates and have some nice add ons against the stock rom.

I´ve also did some graphical things to my Nexus One. But take a look yourself.

If you want some info about rooting or customization, drop me a mail or post a comment.

App Update Info: InfoDroid

Hi.

I only wanted to let you all know, that since i got my nexus one, i am working on an update to my first app “Infodroid”.

Like you can see in the screenshot, there will be two more tabs.

Especially the last tab will be very interesting.

Additionally, i am planning on realeasing a paid version including some widgets for displaying the stats, which can be found within my app.

So stay tuned

Nexus One Stories

Google is giving the people in the world a little view behind the scenes of making the Nexus One.

These are little nice stories posted on youtube.

Here you can directly watch the making of movies in HD qualitiy.

Nexus One: The Story -- Episode 1: Concept & Design

Nexus One: The Story -- Episode 2: Display & 3D Framework

Nexus One: The Story -- Episode 3: Testing

Nexus One: The Story -- Episode 4: Manufacturing

As soon as there are more stories, i will update this post. So keep an eye on my blog.

Update 1:

Nexus One: The Story -- Epiosode 5: Day One

The “Nexus One” will be mine

Hi.

After a long time without an Android device, i will be back soon.

Because i live in germany, where the nexus one is not available at the moment, a friend of mine who is doing his practica in the UK, ordered a Nexus one for me. He will be here by the end of January. So you will see a lot of images, videos and application updates.

If you have any special requests, feel free to post in the comments.

“Android, i´ll be back”

Merry Christmas

Hi.

My blog had not to much info this year, but i hope you all could find some interesting things.

Especially my test about the HG281DJ monitor was visited a lot of times.

About android, i hope i will write more again next year. All the developement was canceled, after i sold my G1 again and went back to the iphone. But for the iPhone, i don´t want to develope. Don´t ask me why. I don´t exactly know. But the main thing is, i don´t like any language which has to do something with C. But java for android is very interesting. I still have some ideas in mind, and i try to come up with some new apps and also with some updates on my old once.

So keep on watching.

But for know, have a nice Christmas Day and a lot of presents.

“Merry Christmas”

No info for a long time

Hi.

Like you have seen, there has been no update to my blog. This was due to a lot of work and also to my second blog about android.

Now i merged my two blogs again.

First, this was done due to selling my android phone again and i wanted to have one blog with all informations for you.

So stay tuned, a lot of new things will show up in the next days. Not only things about android or iPhone, but also about anything else interesting in the mobile life.

Test

Just a small test. Posting directly from my G1.

Update: HERO on G1

Since i couldn´t resist to use Hero as an everyday ROM i tried a lot of tweaks and optimizations in order to get it running as smooth as the ROMs from Cyanogen. And now i have finally got to the point for myself where i can say, i am running at around 95% of the same speed. So for me, it is now usable as an everyday phone.
Therefore i used JacHero´s Rom 2.3.3 together with apps2sd, swapper and TA Utilities.
But i got the most out of it with replacing the Rosie.apk which is normally around 4,5MB with a highly stipped down version which is only 336KB big (JacHero´s one is allready stripped down to around 1,6MB).
If anyone needs help installing Hero on his or her G1, i am willing to post a How-To.
Attached some screenshots:

HERO on G1

Today, i tried a really stable Hero release on my G1.
At first, it looks really great, but even with overclocked cpu to 528MHz and external apps, it runs to slow (in my opinion) in order to use it as a everyday rom.
So now i will go back to Cyanogen. But you have to know, if you want to go back, you have to format your SD card again completely. The FAT32 partition for the standart stuff and the ext2/3 partition for Apps2SD.
If anyone will give it a try look over to xda-developers.com.