I purchased my first Smartphone early this year, and since it was an out-of-pocket cost, it’s an older phone. It was the T-Mobile G1, which I had heard was all the rave. This morning I found out that maybe a few years ago it was, but not today.
This morning (yes, I’m a very early riser), I decided to install Google+ for Android on my phone. I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and trotted over to my wireless modem. Since the antenna was snapped off, the poor thing can only cast a signal in my living room and not much further. I have finally managed to get it to hold a charge, and so for this momentous occasion, I would finally be able to check out Google+ on my Android phone! Hooray! I looked through the market and couldn’t find the app.
Okay, I said to myself. Maybe I just have to go online, scan a QR code, and voila, I’ll be done.
Not so much. Apparently Google+ only works on Android 2.1 and above.
My poor little G1 is on 1.6. Permanently, it seems, although there’s a mod for Cyanogen that could help me get it. There’s also a chance that my G1 could get mistakenly bricked – a term for turning my phone into a useless piece of tech. I’m not sure that I won’t mess it up, or that it won’t mess itself up. My phone is somewhat prone to dying randomly. I don’t think it will now that it’s fully charged, but that full charge doesn’t seem to last very long at times. Not sure what that is, though I’ve gotten a new battery to combat that.
Considering that I’ve had troubles (like the aforementioned ones) with this phone before, it might be an excuse to get a new phone finally. I don’t like to get new tech unless I absolutely need it, and to top things off this phone is unlocked (well, I have the code to do it now, anyway; not planning on switching from T-Mobile any time soon…). I have a laptop purchase that prevails over that, because while my eMachines T6532 that I bought in 2006/7 still functions, it’s not able to keep up with a lot of the games that I’ve purchased recently.
What kind of phone do you have? If your phone is an Android, what version is it running? And what’s the oldest piece of tech that you have that you still use today?