The mobile providers’ device lineups are ever-changing, and the forces that create the dynamics are difficult to understand. Six month ago, when the Google Nexus One was announced along with T-Mobile as the initial service provider, this subsidiary of the German Telekom appeared to be on the cutting edge of the promising Android market and [...]

“SQL error: not an error” is an odd SQLite error message that can be confusing. It stumped me for a moment. The fix is quite simple: C:\Android\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb -e shell # sqlite3 /data/data/com.pod.tripsnmiles/tripsnmiles/tripsnmiles sqlite3 /data/data/com.pod.tripsnmiles/tripsnmiles/tripsnmiles SQLite version 3.5.9 Enter “.help” for instructions sqlite> select * from trip; select * from trip; SQL error: not an error [...]

I followed the upgrade instructions in this post. There were no issues with my Nexus One. Everything worked as described. Rebooting took a while, but once it was back up, I was blown away. The performance is much better. I am working on my first Android app, and while I use the emulator for development [...]

This morning, my Nexus One stopped receiving emails. When I tried to refresh my Exchange inbox on the phone, I got a “cannot connect” error. Powering down and rebooting did not help. Any attempt to browse the web would just bring up the page shown below. I called the T-Mobile Customer Support number while at a restaurant waiting for [...]

Please note that the list below was compiled based on functionality in Android 2.1 on the Nexus One when it became available. Many of these issues have been addressed in Android 2.2, such as WPA-2 Enterprise support, Exchange Calendar sync, Bluetooth tethering, etc. My Nexus One was listed on eBay twice, but I cancelled the [...]

I guess it was too good to be true. A phone that does everything that I want and need and could possibly ask for and is not an iPhone? Not the Nexus One. Or at least, not yet. Mine went on eBay today, and I hope that I will be at least able to get [...]

If you, like myself, resisted all the peer pressure out there for joining the iPhone crowd, and instead held on to that funky Windows Mobile device, this may be of interest to you. Microsoft had an opportunity with Windows Mobile 6.5 to set the first step of the many needed for maintaining the gap between [...]

Time has come to replace my T-Mobile Shadow. I am no longer under contract, and the phone is no longer cutting-edge technology. My wife needs a new phone as well. The Verizon Droid has been creating some buzz for a while, so I started looking into what I’d be able to get for my money right [...]

A user of my TripsnMiles mileage tracker software for Windows Mobile reported display issues on a Blackjack II phone running Windows Mobile 6.1. I was curious to see the problem myself and bought a used phone on Ebay. My application turned out to run just fine on it, so I could have re-sold the phone. [...]

Dear Mr. Jobs, Over the past year, my colleages at work have been relentless about showing off their new iPhones, the cool features that it has, the slick user interface, and the awesome design of the device itself. Initially, their attempts of making me feel inferior about owning a Windows Mobile device were unsuccessful. There [...]