There have been some negative talk about the G1 Phone not being equipped for business users but some clever people at CompanionLink Software have grasped the whole open source idea for the G1 Phone which runs Google’s Android mobile operating system. They have developed a two-way synchronization solution for Microsoft Outlook and Google Android devices.

To get Microsoft Outlook contacts on their Google Android phone, users will need CompanionLink for Google Android. In addition to contacts, the software also synchronizes Microsoft Outlook calendar events, recurring appointments, tasks, and alarms and reminders with Google Android phones. The synchronization of data with the phones occurs wirelessly without any user intervention.

The app isn’t available on Google’s Android Market, but CompanionLink for Google Android is available from the company’s website for $29.95. More information about the solution can be found at companionlink.com/android.

Well done guys.

The phone that’s built for the internet, every time I write a new article about a G1 Phone app I think I’m going to start it with that sentence, I just hope people understand how mobile apps are going to change the mobile phone experience.

My first apps article for the G1 Phone is dedicated to mobile social networking and who other than MySpace to be the first to unveil an app that allows you to stay connected. Available through the Google’s Android Market. The killer app allows G1 Phone users to do anything that they would normally do from their own pc’s including upload pictures which have been taken by there own G1 Phone.

It looks like Facebook lovers will have to wait, let just hope that they bring something out by the time it hits the UK market on the 30th October.

The closer we get to the release date, the more we get to see. This can only mean more ways of getting your hands on a G1 phone early. With the official release date of the G1 Phone on 30th October 2008 this weekend alone has seen the release of a teaser advert in the national tabloid papers and the chance the win a G1 Phone everyday on the T-Mobile G1 phone website. The promotional game simply titled ‘The G1 game’ see a number of Google Map pins scattered across the UK, all you have to do is collect as many as possible in the alloted time frame, the more you get, the more time you’re allowed to keep searching. All you need to collect is 5 pins to enter the draw to win a G1 Phone everyday. A word of warning, this game is very addictive so watch out for the boss!

Oh, and you might want to turn the volume on your computer down too, although the music is hypontising!

It’s coming – or at least thats what it says on the new G1 phone advert that was released this weekend. It was only by chance that one of the guys at Android News managed to spot the new T-Mobile G1 with Google phone ad on page 37 of the ‘News of the World’.

The ad which measures 150mm wide x 250mm places the main headline, subhead and image of the G1 phone in a rectangular box with rounded corners and placed toward the bottom right of the advert itself. The lower half of the box carries T-Mobile’s trademark magenta colour. The headline states ‘It’s coming’ with the subtitle ‘T-Mobile G1 with Google’. ‘Available from 30/10/08′. Most of the ad is taken up by an image, this particular image is of two middle aged men standing on a hill just above a crowd of people. Everyone is looking out across a busy harbour. There is a large katamaran and cruise ship in view and directly above is a large super imposed Google Maps pin. Our guess is that we could be seeing a lot more of these ads showing different locations and scenarios. Watch this space.

Well boys and girls, the moment we have all been waiting for, T-Mobile have officially announced the eagerly awaited release of the T-Mobile G1 Phone, the phone built for the internet and the first to run Google’s Android open source mobile software platform.

The T-Mobile G1 Phone will be available to the UK population from 30th October 2008, that’s just 2 weeks away!!!

In T-Mobile’s official press release it has stated that since its G1 Phone unveiling in New York in September, over 25,000 UK consumers pre-registered their interest in the device. They have finally told us that the wait will be over on 30 October as the T-Mobile G1 hits the shelves at T-Mobile stores just five weeks after it’s official unveiling.

As previously documented the G1 Phone is available for free on T-Mobile Combi and Flext price plans from £40 a month, including unlimited fast mobile internet browsing powered by T-Mobile’s award-winning  network. Combi 35 offers 800 minutes and unlimited texts while Flext 40 gives up to 1,250 minutes or up to 2,500 texts or any mix of the two.

Jim Hyde, Managing Director T-Mobile UK said:  “With so much excitement generated by the announcement last month, we’re thrilled to bring the T-Mobile G1 to the UK in time for Christmas.”

Well, guess what Jim, so are we!

T-Mobile have said that the T-Mobile G1 Phone will feature a range of exciting applications some of which will already be pre-loaded on your G1 Phone. To me this only means over excitement and confusion, I mean, what do you do when you take your new G1 Phone out of its box? Play with the pre installed apps and get experiment with the android operating system or get straight on the internet and head over to Google’s Android Market, the place wheret customers can find and download innovative applications from games and navigation tools to on-the-go shopping comparisons.

Following T-Mobiles announcement that the G1 Phone will now be released on 30th October 2008 (and not early November as previously expected), we have’nt got long to find out.

Arrgghhh, decisions, decisions!

Still sitting on the fence? Still not sure whether you want to upgrade to the new G1 Phone? Still want more answers? T-mobile has heard your beckoned call… well, sort of.

T-mobile have created an online simulator which allows you to get a better feel for the G1 phone, it has animated 360 views, animated guides on how the keyboard slides, how the battery is removed, how the SIM card is inserted and how to insert an SD memory card. It also has an emulator, a close up view of the screen so that you can have a play with Google’s android operating platform (Beware some screens are not fully functional). 

I know, I know, where do you go to see the new G1 phone? Well, click here, and feast your eyes on this little beauty!

G1 Phone Testdrive

Join our facebook group for the G1 phone or Google phone, a facebook community dedicated to the UK release of the G1 Phone.

To join this group, visit facebook and search for our group named “we want the new Google phone”.