Fast Foward

30 years after I built my COSMAC ELF, I bought my first Android phone. The T-Mobile G1. I had gone to Fry's Electronics, with my birthday gift card, with the intention of buying a Windows phone. I wanted it to replace my Microsoft Zune, Motorola Razor, and Palm Zire-72 PDA. The guys in the store talked me into buying the G1 with Android 1.2 installed. It was not able to meet my goal of replacing all the devices in my pocket and backpack but, in the end, I have not been sorry I bought it. I recently replaced my G1 with a T-Mobile My-Touch 4G slide. The G1 is now the center of my next project, an Android driven Robot.