Allen Day’s Blog

I got an unlocked T-Mobile G1 today. Woo. There is a bunch of mis-information out there on blogs and forum about how to get the phone set up. Here’s the real deal, I found these settings on Piaw’s Blog.

Name: whatever_you_want_the_name_to_be
APN: wap.cingular
Username: wap@cingulargprs.com
Password: cingular1
MMSC: http://mmsc.cingular.com
MMS Proxy: wireless.cingular.com
MMS port: 80
MCC: 310
MNC: 410

Now, on to my first impressions of the phone.

Works:

• Calling works.
• Google contact import works.
• Google Chat works.
• EDGE data works.
• WiFi data works.
• Keyboard works. It rocks

Doesn’t work:

• AOL Chat does not work. Complains it can’t read my mobile number from my SIM card.
• 3G data does not work. I read that the phone doesn’t support the 3G band used by AT&T.

Works, but not well:

• The browser works, but it sucks compared to the iPhone. Feels very slow. I was expecting a lot more given that it’s using MobileSafari/WebKit.
• Video download/playback works. The player was branded with the YouTube logo, so I’m guessing it only supports YouTube out of the box.
• The UI feels clunky at first. Sort of feels like Nokia S60, too many menus and inconsistency in how different tasks are done

http://www.everydns.com

Found this today, and it works as advertised. Need to look more closely, but with this I think I can stop paying dyndns.com $30/year/domain for custom DNS.

1. Noticed a new Tesla Motors showroom in Los Angeles at Sepulveda/405 on Santa Monica Blvd last night on my drive to my guitar lesson. Made a mental note to stop by and check it out, looks like they have some museum-style exhibits –fuel cell cutaways, etc of the car.

2. Was talking it up to some friends/coworkers earlier today.

3. Was planning to go to the Hadoop Meetup tonight at Mahalo, but skipped it and worked late.

4. Saw an orange Lotus pass me on the way home… but wait… it has a TESLA logo! I pursued, thinking it was kind of late for a test drive.

5. Pulled up at a red light to listen to the silence / congratulate the driver on his nice ride. Honked my horn.

6. Driver rolls down the window and turns to me, and it’s none other than the CEO of Mahalo, Jason Calacanis!

A (partial) list I found today. Doesn’t include NIPS, so I’m not sure how exhaustive it is, but it has a bunch I haven’t seen before.

http://www.kmining.com/info_conferences.html

I’ve recently and in the past had several requests for my newsfeed reading list.

I don’t really use a proper newsreader. I use the “Web Clips” option in Gmail. It’s like a poor man’s newsreader. You can add RSS feeds under Settings > Web Clips, and article titles will appear in the bar above your mailbox, interleaved among the advertising that Google places there. You can only have up to 40 (shame on Google!) but it works well enough.

Anyway, I dumped out the links today into my blogroll. You can see them in the sidebar.