Android RC33
I finally got sick of waiting for RC33. I looked up online how to download and install it manually. I downloaded the file off Google’s servers, renamed it, and plugged in my phone. Before I could copy the file to my phone, T-Mobile pushed the update to me 
. Amazing coincidental timing? Or perhaps Google tracking my search for RC33, testing my internet speed, predicting when I would finish downloading it, and having T-Mobile’s servers push the update to my phone (that would be really cool ).
There have already been a ton of reviews published online, so I’m not going to go into a ton of detail. Latitude is cool, but not useful yet since none of my friends use it. Voice Search is cool and works well, but I don’t know if I’ll ever actually use it. Nearly every app I had installed had updates available in the Market (since the Market now informs you), so I spent 15 minutes or so updating them all (I wish it had autoupdate).
However, there was one thing that wasn’t in any of the change logs and that I haven’t seen in any of the major reviews: the camera. The camera application seems to have improved tremendously. In the past, for me (perhaps this was an isolated issue, since I’ve never met anyone else with a G1), the camera had an absolutely awful refresh rate and updated very slowly (lagged, blurred, etc). Now, it looks beautifully smooth. It also seems to take less blurry and better pictures, but that could be a placebo after noticing the other change. Perhaps this is as a result of some changes being made to allow for Cupcake’s video recording (which I had wondered about due the remarkably bad frame-rate of previous versions).
The update process was easy and painless. The only hiccup I experienced was that the update froze on the Android boot screen (with the small logo and text) for about 5 minutes. I’m not sure if this was a glitch or part of the update procedure, but it seems to be running great now!