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01/21/09
The back looks nice, though.
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12/23/08
So far I have not seen any apps or games take advantage o the dedicated graphics in the G1. All the games are horrible graphically. Hopefully this is going to change once the app store is capable of charging retarded el-bastardos like me for something worth playing.
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11/25/08
Remember the Soviet Union, folks? Thems were some good times...
[crickets]
11/25/08
That's so much funnier when imagining a 1950's, squeaky-clean all-American dad saying that while enjoying a puff of his favorite flavored tobacco. Well done on the icon..
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10/30/08
Pros: Blazing fast Internet speed. Beautiful in the bronze version. Cool super free applications and more coming. Google R&D behind the phone applications.
Cons: Comes in black or Bronze. I dont like the black Matte finish, looks cheaper to me and much easier to scratch. I love the bronze but its impossible to find. I wish there were more applications ready but I know they will come fast.
Summary: I loved my iPhone but I was also using Google products on the web a lot. I love this G1. Super fast, super practical. Fast web and fast and easy to use. There is a free application that lets you create your own ring tones, take a MP3 song and cut out the portion you like and create your own ring tone. The keyboard is so much easier and faster to use than the iPhone screen. I love this new phone I was surprised and it surpassed my expectations by far.
The open source architecture is awesome. Think of Firefox as a phone. I dont have to be slave to Apple proprietary software and applications and I can save a lot of money to get the same or better service than Apple.
I loved my iPhone but this G1 is a revolutionary product and applications, WOW.
10/29/08
Coming from someone who has had extensive play with the iphone, I already see some pros.
First and foremost, it supports background processes out of the box. Most people won't realize how great this is until they have gchat running ALL the time, and they switch between incoming text messages and IM seamlessly without anyone even realizing that you're IMing from a phone and not a PC.
Copy and Paste. Enough said. I've already used tons of times.
Full Qwerty keyboard. Since when did this become a Con? Most people love this phone OVER the iphone BECAUSE it has a qwerty keyboard. WTH? Software keyboard coming soon to Android, G1 will have best of both worlds... AND a trackball. Don't think trackball usefull? Don't use it, but now that I have it, I do ALL the time. Watch an iphone user browse... in order to click any given link, they have to zoom in first so that their finger press doesn't click any of the surrounding links... with the trackball, scrolling quickly and selecting a desired link is MUCH faster.
It does support a regular mini-USB cable for data transfer. There is already an app on the market for playing videos stored on internal memory. There are already a deluge of apps in the market that add all sorts of functionality, some of which impossible on iphone (notably the various bar-code scanning software since iphone apps are not allowed to receive video from cam, only jpgs)
Ok, so now the cons. Calendar is buggy, has issues with recurring events. People who don't use google calendar will have to find workarounds to transfer their calendars to the phone.
People who don't use gmail as their primary email will also find that the experience is far worse than for those who do use gmail as their primary personal email account. (I DO use gmail as my primary, so for me, it's a dream)
Non-universal interface... unfortunately, due to the open nature of the system, this was inevitable... some apps use accelerometer to detect orientation, others don't (why the main OS doesn't baffles me).
So the cons do exist, battery life has improved over the last few days, I believe that most of the complaints are due to poorly calibrated battery monitors and as people power cycle their phones, they'll realize that they go from 4-7 hours the first day, to a solid 15-20 hours with the same load a few days later, pretty much on par with the iphone. Li-Ion batteries degrade about 10% per year, more depending on usage and heat... at least I can replace the G1 battery as it fails.
But to ignore the positives is doing a disservice to this fledgeling platform. I look forward to seeing what people come up with, and how crazy things can get.