The Sony Ericsson WebSDK was created in collaboration with the PhoneGap open source development community, and helps developers design applications for Sony Ericsson’s Android and Symbian-based devices such as the Xperia X10 and the Satio.

Like Motorola, Sony Ericsson is investing in open source technologies in a bid to turn its fortune around. The firm is this week reported to have shut down its North American headquarters, leaving 425 employees without a job. The company is instead moving its North American HQ to Atlanta.

The cuts form part of a previously announced additional cost saving program, which amounts to further job cuts of 2,000 people, leading to new restructuring charges of Eur200m.

Last month the handset manufacturer watched its net loss for the third quarter increase to €164m, compared to a loss of €25m in the same period last year.

Sales dropped to €1.6bn for the three month period, down from €2.8bn in 2008, while unit shipments were down 45 per cent year on year to 14.1 million, giving it a market share of about 5 per cent.

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So you've just bought a new T-mobile G1 phone — awesome! For those who don't know, the G1 comes pre-installed with an operating system made by Google, called Android. Android is an open source operating system for mobile phones, meaning that anyone can write new and helpful programs (which you can download for free! — more of this later). In this tutorial, we will go over some of the basics, such as how to change your 'desktop' appearance, how to connect to wirless networks, how to automatically import your contacts from your old sim card, how to copy and paste, how to connect your G1 to your computer, how to load pictures and movies, and a few other tips and tricks to help you navigate your new phone.

First of all, let's go over the buttons.

FUNCTIONS OF THE BUTTONS OF THE T-MOBILE G1

Let's start with the green 'call' button on the left hand side. Pressing this button will always take you to the 'dialer', so you can make a call, or check your contacts out. Once you are in the 'dialer' program, and you have selected a number, pressing this will make the call.

The 'home' button, signified by a little house, is the button you press whenever you want to return to your desktop. For instance, say you are in the dialer, or checking out your e-mail, pressing the 'home' button will put these in the background and show you the desktop.

The 'Menu' button is used whenever you want 'more options'. For instance, say you are looking at your call log; you may not immediately know how to clear your call log, but knowing that the menu button provides more options, you can assume that by first going to call log and then pressing menu will show you options to clear your call log. In fact, it does just this. Another example is if you are on your desktop, pressing the menu button will show a list of options that you can do on your desktop, such as changing settings, changing wallpaper, etc.

The 'back arrow' button does just that; say you are in the browser, pressing the 'back' button will take you to the last browser window. Similarly, it will also take you to the last program you used.

Red Call Button

The 'red' call button is used to end a call; however, it is also used to put the phone in temporary 'sleep' mode. This saves energy to extend the battery life of the phone; to wake the phone up, simply press this red button again and the phone will wake up. Holding this button will show the menu to Turn off the power to the phone. When the phone is turned off, to turn it back on simply hold this red button again, and the phone will turn on if it is sufficiently charged.

Wheel Ball

Lastly, the wheel ball in the middle of the phone is used for a few different purposes, and it may be weird, but you can press the mouse ball in and use it as a button. First, it is used for scrolling in the browser. Second, if you ever want to copy and paste this is the button you use. What you do is first see the text that you want to select. Then, either use your finger to select the text, or click the mouse ball and go to 'select all'. Once the text is selected, press the mouse ball in again and go to 'copy'. This will copy the text to the clipboard, and when you find somewhere you want to paste it to (yep, you guessed it!) just press the mouse ball in again and go to 'paste'. Anything can be copy and pasted, such as URL's or text from a website.

Now, lets go over a few things that I promised I'd show you how to do in this introductory Android User Tutorial.

CHANGE YOUR DESKTOP APPEARANCE – WALLPAPER ON T-MOBILE G1 with Android

To change the wallpaper, make sure you are on your desktop. If you are not, remember android allows you to simply press your 'home' button, which will bring you back to the desktop. Now, once you see the desktop, press the 'Menu' button. This should pop up a menu at the bottom of the screen. You should see a square that says 'wallpaper', which you should click with your finger. This brings up another menu; if you already have the pictures on your phone, either go to 'pictures' or 'wallpaper gallery' and select which picture you want to use. When you click the picture you want to use, you have the ability to move and resize what you want to actually appear on your background. Press in the middle of the orange selection square to move it around, while to resize it, click on the perimeter of the square. Once you have the selection you want, go to 'save' at the bottom. Hoorah! You've just set up your wallpaper!

IMPORTING PICTURES, VIDEOS, and MEDIA ON YOUR G1 FROM YOUR COMPUTER

However, if you don't have the picture you want, you can connect your G1 to your computer and load your pictures on it. To do this, use the mini-usb to usb cable that came with your T-Mobile G1 phone, and connect one end to the phone and the other end into the usb slot on your computer. Make sure your phone is turned on. Assuming you are using Windows Vista, after a second a popup should appear on your computer's desktop saying some sort of installation — don't worry if this doesn't happen. Now, look back to your phone. Look at the white bar that goes across the top of the screen. In the top right there should be a small icon, which means that your phone is ready to be 'connected' to your computer; what you do is press on this icon with your finger, and without letting up drag your finger down the screen a little bit. This will show the whole menu. Then click on the 'Mount' icon, and press ok to mount. What you have just done is connected your phone as a new drive on your computer. So, go to 'Computer' and then go to this new drive, it will probably be G: or something like that. Now, when you open it folders such as Pictures should be there. To load pictures onto your phone, simply copy any pictures from your computer into this G:\Pictures folder. For movies, do the same, except you will have to convert them to the right format (mpeg 4), which is outside the scope of this article. Wallah! Now you can put pictures on your G1 Android phone!

CONNECTING TO A WIRELESS NETWORK USING T-MOBILE G1 with Android

Now, let's show you how to connect to a wireless network. Go back to your desktop, and then press the Menu Key, and go to the 'Settings' box. Now click on 'Wireless Controls'. Next, click on Wi-Fi Settings. To add a new network, first click on Wi-Fi; once it is enabled (a green check mark appears), click on Add a Wi-Fi Network. Then, put in the correct information such as the password for the wireless network and such. This should automatically then connect to the network, and you are now using wireless (instead of G3 or E signal, which is slower). Hooray! A few notes is that your g1 doesn't automatically turn wi-fi on and off, you have to set it.; however, there is an option that you can setup under 'settings' which we won't go into.

IMPORTING CONTACTS FROM YOUR SIM CARD ON T-MOBILE G1 with ANDROID

Finally, if you want to import your contacts from an old sim card, there is a special option that does this for you. First, go to 'contacts'; if you can't find this, go to the dialer first (by pressing the green 'call' button) and then click on the third tab which is contacts. Now, press 'Menu', and then go to the 'settings' box that pops up. Then, click the option 'SIM contacts Importer'. This will show the contacts on your sim card. To import all of them, simply press 'menu' again, and go to import all. Wa-la! All your contacts can now be found under 'contacts'.

I hope you all enjoyed this basic tutorial for the T-Mobile G1 with Android installed. Good luck and happy calling!

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For the Android phones, Vodafone worked together with Google. The phones were supposed to be a great hit, like the iPhone, but unfortunately it failed to get such high sales numbers. Maybe this is the reason that Vodafone says that they don't actually need Google's services like Gmail in the future. The provider would actually want to replace these services with different ones made by Vodafone self. This is what a representative of Vodafone told Tech Reporter.

The Android Phone will be stripped down to a 'basic package', to which Vodafone wants to add separate services, this tells representative Rachel Williams to the tech website. That idea however, isn't really original. HTC is also thinking about changing the Android phone to their wishes. The Providers have many options to change the Operating System of the Android because it is open source. This means that it can be changed by anyone without too much trouble.

The first smartphone that Vodafone is going to bring out onto the market with Android is the HTC Magic. In many countries it will be released any time soon. After this first model, Vodafone is probably going to release even more versions, this says Williams.

The looks of the HTC Magic has drastically changed the last few months. Before the Magic was actually announced, pictures with flat buttons on the Magic appeared. These versions were also available as hands-on at many conventions. The pictures of the announced version in February had whole different buttons. The latest version of the Magic even has a different order in the buttons. The Magic will come out in a few colors, but the black version has buttons who look like metal, really stylish!

Some of you might have never heard of the Android phones. It are actually regular phones but with a whole new OS. The OS is called Android. Thanks to this Operating System the options on such a phone can easily be changed because it is an open source OS. Since Vodafone has announced that they want to leave the Google services behind them and start their own, I'm curious what kind of new functions we can expect on the new models of the Android phones. The question is not only what kind of new features they will develop, but also how good the new features will be working, because Vodafone hasn't as much experience with creating such services like Google does.

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