Comments on: Finally got the RC9 update for Android

By: Andrew Murdoch

Andrew Murdoch — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:08:14 +0000

Paid applications have been enabled in the market for me. Quite a few available now.

By: Ahmet

Ahmet — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:36:18 +0000

Yes, we’d like to think.

But don’t forget, the Google Voice Search came out on the iPhone a long time before it was thought about for those with the G1

Maybe Google has a suprise for us all and they are not telling us!

There’s for wishful thinking I guess.

By: Ewan

Ewan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:07:52 +0000

My flatmate received ‘Google Latitude’ on his BlackBerry Storm last week. I would have expected Google to look after its own users first or at least at the same time.

By: Ahmet

Ahmet — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:04:26 +0000

Hi Ewan,

Good post, and explanation about the Latitude. I tried it myself and see what you mean. Hopefully they will acivate this soon.

However, as for the marking of comments as spam, this is available now.

If you goto the Market …. then Hold down your finger over a persons comment it will give you the option to “Mark as spam”

Try it!

By: Ewan

Ewan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:45:07 +0000

I got the RC9 this morning (Edinburgh/On Charge/GPRS).

It is VERY disappointing. Looks like they have disabled latitude for the UK users (unlike Germany who recently got the RC9 update with latitude). However, if you go to the Google Latitude install page, via your G1 you are able to “Launch” which opens Google Maps (v3.0). I am thinking that maybe we HAVE the correct version of Google Maps with Latitude and it has simply been disabled.

Another thing I have noticed in the ability to mark comments as spam in the market. Also to delete from trash in POP3.

Paid apps is not available for Europe users at this time it seems. Some people are commenting (hopping) that these 2 features will be enabled once the update has been rolled out fully.