Bumping this thread. Anyone get one?
Thoughts? Reviews? Critiques? I am a T-mobile customer and I have been thinking about getting a new phone, so I’d love to get some hands on info.
Its on my list of stuff to get once I find a job. I participated in their developer challenge and wrote an app for it, but they changed the api so much since then I’m gonna have to rewrite the whole damn thing. Data plan seems almost free compared to the iphone.
Cheapest data plan is $25/mo, I believe. I can’t imagine what the iphone’s must be if that seems almost free :eek:
Buddy of mine got one, I’m gonna play with it Thursday if we have lunch as planned.
I’ll consider it a personal favor if you post your impressions here, the publicity machine is going full speed for the G1 so its hard to figure out if its actually usable or suffers from the 1.0 syndrome.
I ended up buying one, and in fact I’m writing this post with it.
I like it a lot. The biggest downside is the crappy battery life, gotta charge it every day.
The web browsing is awesome. I haven’t used the iPhone enough to really say which is better, but I’m liking it a lot.
Dunno what he’s talking about; the old iPhones (like mine) have unlimited data at $20/month and the new G3 iPhones have unlimited data at $30/month.
Can anyone point out links describing features and such? Or better yet, a video walk-through? I might be interested in trying it, eventually, as long as I can stay with Sprint, and they offer service packages I can reasonably use. (That is, not gigantic amounts of money for 1000 minutes a month, about 50 of which I’ll actually use. If that’s their smallest package, I won’t be interested. 
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I like what I’ve seen of the iPhone, but AT&T is not getting my money, and last I checked their smallest package was ridiculously huge and over-priced, to boot.
Right now the G1 is only available with T-Mobile. Their website has a 360 view and a pretty good description of what the phone can do:
Meh. That’s either a really crappy demo, or it’s a lot less robust than the iPhone.
Ah well. I wouldn’t have bothered with a first generation phone anyway, I suppose we’ll see if they make any improvements later on. Or if iPhone finally stops being exclusive with AT&T.
Here, check out the Phonescoop review–that site’s my go-to spot for phone info.
I have an HTC phone now, the Dash, and I’m liking the look of the G1 but I’m going to wait until it’s been out a little longer before I jump on it. Since I have a buttload of apps for Mobile 6, it’ll be a wrench for me to go to a phone that I don’t have a ton of software for. Since Android’s open source there should be a ton of stuff pretty quick so when the kinks are all worked out there should be a bunch of stuff.
I like the beefier processor, that’s cool. I’m really, REALLY hoping that they fixed the known issue with media playback and text messaging–if you’re listening to music with the headset and a text message comes in, it dumps the volume by about half and the outer speakers make noise until the phone is reset. That’s annoying, and the HTC’s all the way back to the SDA had the same flaw.
I’ll probably have an Android phone before another year’s out, especially since my contract’s up with T-Mobile in a couple months so they’ll be giving them away.
Oh, and GPRS is roughly equivalent to 56K dialup, Edge is about 4x diallup–we found a browser that supports Flash (Mobile 6 isn’t supposed to support it at all but it can be tweaked and lied to) and it’s possible to stream YouTube on Edge with very little stuttering. WiFi is more useful than you’d think, since lots of people don’t secure their routers and coffee shops are everywhere.
Went into my Tmobile store to check it out and I came away very unimpressed.
He tried to sell me by saying the texting would be superior to Iphone, which he claimed was hard to type with. No, it’s not. It is the easiest texting I have ever done with any phone.
Also, I disliked the mechanism that flips open the keypad. It seemed cheap and easy to break. As a matter of fact, the whole feel of the phone is cheap and plasticky.
He did show me his ‘gps’ where you are literally on the street that you are driving down. I mean, it looks like you are driving down the street, looking through a video cam. That was cool.
Eh, that phone looks too thick. That’s one reason I’m considering the iPhone as my next phone…it’s slim! Of course, I’d have to live in a place that has AT&T or T-Mobile service to get either one…right now my only choices are Verizon or Sprint.
OH MY GOD YES. I haven’t seen the phone in person, but when I saw the animated demo I was really disappointed in that.