The bane of all mobile app developers is the need to rewrite the same app over and over again for different devices: the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Palm Pre, Nokia, Windows Mobile. Adobe is positioning its Flash platform (which includes the Flash player, AIR, developer tools, and media servers) as the write-once, deploy-anywhere solution for both the mobile Web and apps. Today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, it will announce plans to bring Adobe AIR to mobile devices, starting with Android and Blackberry phones.
Read more on the TechCrunch website.
After about 4 months of use, early this week my G1 phone stopped charging. I could not use it off the charger for more than 1 minute. I called T-Mobile’s tech support and did some troubleshooting with them. Finally they decided to send me a new battery. I was lucky to have a spare phone (my old Blackberry), so I placed the SIM card in the Blackberry and I managed to have a working phone for the 4-day waiting period for the battery to arrive. I got the new battery Saturday, charged it and it lasted from Saturday night until now (about 24 hours). So I had to charge it again, although I have not talked on the phone for those 24 hours. It seems that the batteries are not well designed for this phone. That makes me think about why din’t I move to the iPhone ?! I’m a loyal T-Mobile customer for about 4 years, love their service (best customer service I ever experienced), never had any problems with access, drop calls, etc… The G1 phone is not bad, it is a start of a new age, open source but it is still very “probie” in this existing cell-war .
