G1 Officially Available Today, Should You Buy One?
pThe a href=”http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/080923-103314″G1, a new mobile device from HTC/a available and featuring a href=”http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/071212-154110″Google’s brand spankin’ new mobile platform Android/a, is now officially available at T-mobile./p
pBut should you ditch your Blackberry, Palm, a href=”http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/080918-020617″iPhone/a, etc to get one?/p
pThe G1 has a touch screen, similar to the iPhone, but it doesn’t have multitouch. It has a mobile application version of the Amazon mp3 store, which I love and use all the time for DRM-free music. /p
pUnfortunately, you’ll need an adapter for that headphone jack to listen to all that music. Plus, you’ll have to purchase a memory card to store your music, and you can only do so up to 8GB./p
pThe G1 does have a slider keypad, which I would love. I’ve had my iPhone for months, but typing on it is still a pain. Prior to that, I had the Samsung Glyde for a couple of weeks and loved the slider keypad. (It was just everything else that was a pain.)/p
pSo, should you or shouldn’t you? Here’s what the reviewers who have are saying:/p
pa href=”http://gizmodo.com/5062977/t+mobile-g1-google-android-phone-review”Gizmodo/a/p
blockquoteThe G1 phone and the Android operating system are not finished products. There are only three working Google Apps here—Gmail, Maps and Calendar—while Google Docs, Google News, Google Reader, Google Shopping, Google Images, Google Video, Blogger and Picasa are nowhere to be found. What’s the deal?
pWe have high hopes for third-party coders to fill in gaps Google intentionally or unintentionally left in this OS. There’s already a video player, and we’re sure VLC will try and […]
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