crazed » google http://www.crazed.org.uk Musings of a web developer Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:21:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 T-mobile G1 googlephone http://www.crazed.org.uk/2008/11/t-mobile-g1-googlephone/ http://www.crazed.org.uk/2008/11/t-mobile-g1-googlephone/#comments Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:54:43 +0000 Fai http://www.crazed.org.uk/?p=106 Quick summary of what I’ve read from various posts from the blogosphere:

  • Great software – web browsing and touch interface is brilliant; open sandbox design of the OS means plenty of possible applications to do whatever you want
  • Google app/mail/contact syncing is excellent (providing you have an account), though some feel being tied to a Google account is a downside.
  • Poor hardware – battery is crap, lasting half a day of moderate use; design is flimsy, and IMHO rather ugly; 
  • Rather expensive overall for what is essentially a ‘beta’ phone.
Give it another year for the OS to mature with more manufacturers onboard with more form factors and better build quality (what happened HTC?!), and I think it will be a strong contender against the [Jesus?] iPhone and the Symbian phones out there. For now, definitely one just to watch.
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