T-Mobile G1

Posted By: the-laughing-man | Oct 31st, 2008 @ 5:14 PM
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#Oct 31st, 2008 @ 5:14 PM
the-laughing-man
the-laughing-man

Has anyone got their hands on one yet? Anything to say?

I got mine about 8hrs ago and after an unsteady start I can safely say I'm loving it. I've just come off an N95 so I was pleased to see that the G1 doesn't seem under powered, it was a worry.

There are some amazing apps for this thing already, TuneWiki is just an exceptional idea, really gimmicky by I absolutely love it, it'll definitely be shown off at the pub. Twitroid is a great client for anyone who uses Twitter and the Lolcat Builder is an absolutely essential app.

The games are grade A smack, they are insanely addictive, I suggest checking out Coloroid and Bonsai Blast, that and the classic lights out cannot be resisted.

However... Europe hasn't got the Amazon MP3 store, which we knew wasn't happening but they also seem to have stripped other client support from the IM Client too, all I can get is Google Talk and I wont lie, one of the reasons I bought it was so I could use WLM on the go. I'm also struggling with the way the inbox is arranged, it's too much like an e-mail having just come from Symbian. It shows your entire to and sent from one person in one 'thread' rather than breaking it down into inbox and sent but I can get over that in time.

All I need now is a few apps for the wish list:

Lightsabre app - c'mon we all want it.

A messenger app for Windows Live

A last.fm client

A hotmail plugin for the external mail would be nice

and as amazing as the browser is an optimised Facebook app wouldn't go amiss to save us all some time, eh?

#Oct 31st, 2008 @ 5:34 PM
Bas
Bas
It finds lightbulbs.
So how is Android? I still have to hear what's so great about it other than the fact that it's open source!!!111~
#Oct 31st, 2008 @ 9:52 PM
staceyw
staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...
I still have my tmobile Dash and does everything I need so far.  Personally, I could care about "open" as that fact does not help me as a user of a phone.  What matters is price, features, and ease of use.  From a picture, it looks like some good cool hardware and may be interested from that standpoint.  Does it have Sync to Outlook?
#Nov 1st, 2008 @ 11:49 AM
the-laughing-man
the-laughing-man

I'm really enjoying it so far, it's a solid platform, much more stable than my N95 was (but that doesn't say much)

There's a few annoyances like not being able to save picture messages, the lack of other IM supports, video recording and touch screen keyboard but that's it really. And these aren't problems that can't be solved by Apps or updates which can be released further down the line.

The real selling point for me is the app store not being vetted and that it is a platform and it's not locked to one company like the iPhone or Blackberry, I think this can only get better with time and within a year it will be an alternative to any other platform out there.

#Nov 1st, 2008 @ 11:57 AM
the-laughing-man
the-laughing-man
I never use outlook so I haven't tried syncing yet but we do know that it lacks Exchange support atm
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