It quite simply gives you an RSS news feed of our site in an easy to consume form. Nothing too shocking for our first app version.

The big challenge we’ve got though is designing a decent icon for it. Any ideas?

Pashik reckons that a red square with the letters “MIR” in white isn’t that stunning. He’s knocked up some others samples here:

I suppose we could probably use a small MOBILE INDUSTRY REVIEW … but it’ll be quite small on the device. Does anyone have any ideas?

I got an email in this morning to let me know I’ve almost, almost won a T-Mobile G1.

8 people will win a device, apparently — as soon as the phone is available to buy. It’d be rather swish to actually win one. I wonder how many folk pre-registered their interest? 10,000? 50,000? 500?

Either way, I’m looking forward to seeing the device in the flesh this Wednesday.

You too can pre-register your G1 interest here.

On first glance, it’s looking like a swish handset:

But I seriously doubt it.

That’ll only be for new customers/contracts:

It’s 600 quid on Expansys, to buy unlocked. I’m going to wait until 3 get their arse in gear and get it with them, I think…