I have an unlocked US T-Mobile G1, and am using it in Bulgaria. I do get the OTA updates, so no worries.
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Icklesheep <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am looking to do the same as you; G1 from Ebay, unlock and use with > an existing Orange UK contract. I haven't been able to find much > information on whether the updates would still come down to the G1 > over the Orange network, everybody talks about T-Mobile releasing the > updates which would suggest it is a service restricted to T-mobile > contracts. > > From using your G1 on Orange up to now, do you think that the same > updates are all available regardless of network? I am thinking that it > would be awful to buy a G1 and then not be able to get the Cupcake > update when it gets released! > > Matt > > On Mar 8, 2:15 pm, LeeMcL <[email protected]> wrote: >> Saturday morning (7 March) I was surprised to find an "update >> available" message on my G1. My surprise was due to having bought my >> G1 on Ebay and then unlocking it to run on Orange UK. I'd presumed >> that the update would only be available to phones still connected to >> TMobile. >> >> The good news is that the update worked and my phone is now RC9. The >> bad news is that I temporarily lost 3G/GPRS access until I deleted my >> APN entry for Orange and recreated it with exactly the same details! >> The less surprising news is this update doesn't appear to offer any >> new features - apart from automatically detecting when Market >> application updates are available and Sim Toolkit. No latitude in >> Google Maps but if you browse towww.google.co.ukClassic (not >> iGoogle) you are asked to download Google Gears and then that page >> displays "My Location: XXX". Since I can't access Latitude, not even >> online, I cannot tell if the data is getting into Google's central >> servers. >> >> Lee > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
