Video: Android walkthrough on T-Mobile G1
By Thomas Ricker 
posted September 23rd 2008 11:33AM
posted September 23rd 2008 11:33AM
posted September 23rd 2008 11:33AM
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From watching just the first few minutes of that video, something tells me that Eric from Google has a thing for Kate.
what video?
This is a young platform and we don't even have the full details yet the knives are out. These things inevitably take time to solidify and mature and early adopters need to have the patience. You have to give a platform time to mature or if you don't have the patience use a mature platform with the all the features you need. Let the early adopters deal with the issues.
Will it work with Google Apps for personal Domain??
I didn't think so...
It definitely will.
does this phone have calculator?
it's a phone...first...and then it's a Android phone..
Apple kind of went to the wrong way...i hope Google is not.
if you don't wanna sign up a data plan for 15-30/Month..
would you care about those internet stuff..
make a good phone first please..
then think about add 3G in it and make it a good Android internet phone
If you just want a phone, there are already plenty of options out there. Nothing's revolutionary about building a good cellphone. But building a good iPhone competitor that's far more open - that's revolutionary.
I think we need to wait and see what the final shipping product is and have Engadget give a review.
At this point it's looking a little lame ... iPhone still is in the lead.
Google team may read some comments and update things before shipping ... still it will be a phone selling better then BB devices ...
Blizzard leverages the open source application environment to deploy a mobile guildchat/mail/auctionhouse client.
The G1 is suddenly the #1 mobile device.
Where do I sign up, and how many organs will it require?
I have to admit that the UI isn't the most flashy I've seen, but it is very functional. I also liked some of the maps applications, especially street view, that's something I wish my iPhone had.
But it's also something I can live without, as I am very satisfied with what I have now. But man Android and the G1 looks very good, not as I expected. I felt they could have done a little better with the web browser, though it is better than most that are established right now. And I couldn't help but look at it as something kind of geekish, because the UI looks as if it has a bit of a learning curve, and that's o.k., It's just that your normal users who really aren't big on tech might find it hard to use, but I haven't used one yet so i can't tell how it is. Overall it looks like a really great concept, however like others, I wish the UI had a better look to it, though it is highly functional, so you could forgive it's looks. Well as an iPhone owner Apple had better get on the ball now because as soon as I see a good Touch-only device that runs Android I'm gonna start to look the other way.
********PLEASE, SOMBODY TELL ME WHAT THE HELL.......ANDRIROD........ IS???????? WHAT DOES IT DO THJAT OTHER HIGH END SMART PHONES DO NOT DO???????
THANKS MUCHO.........LEE
Oh. Oh. Oh my.
The browser was far less smooth, and a lot more choppy when compared to the iPhone, side by side. WHY? For some reason I blame HTC, not Google.
I like Google, I really do. But it's somewhat difficult for me to sell a little bit more of my soul to them each day... They've got my email, they track my searches, Chrome tracks my every move on the web, and once I get a G1 they'll be able to track pretty much every single online interaction I have. They make some awesome products, but their kitschy "don't be evil" motto just doesn't inspire that much trust in me. Oh well.
Just preordered it. The t-mobile site is plugged up like crazy, took quite a few tries to get through
http://omegaredirect.com/g1.jpg
The OS looks quite laggy and slow. The applications are really ugly too. Shame.
I want to know how he got on with Kate.........
I don't know if it is just me, but doesn't the combination of yet ANOTHER mobile OS with potentially hundreds of different mobile phones make things much more complex? I mean, I like the idea that Google is doing Android and they seem to have a good model, but I find it amazing that the cell phone market has yet to glean the most basic principal that the iPhone offers -- simplicity. What I mean by that is that there isn't a new form-factor/handset for the iPhone every week -- the OS is tied in well as a result, and at the very least bug fixes and vulnerabilities can be addressed in a more timely manner (whether they are or not is another discussion, but I can't imagine how this would work with Android on like a hundred phones). If Google did this on their own phone, I think it would have been a great thing and would have provided the market with a decent competitor (assuming a good phone). Now, it is going to be watered down by a number of phones on different carriers without much in place for protection from everything from viruses to spyware. At best, it may just simply displace another OS in the market... at worst, probably just fragment the already highly-diversified OS/phone-combo set.
controls and looks not as good as the iphone. much better apps though
Advertised by a freaking cyclist, and as if that's not bad enough also infused with google branding to a point that it gets nauseating, glad I'm not in the market for this stuff.
WAIT WAIT WAIT.....HOLD THE PHONES.......
BUT CAN IT RUN CRYSIS???????????????????????????
Yes it can, in fact 3 out of 8 dentists advise a phone in case of crysis, the rest were sober.
is it me? or is the status bar doctored on the first video ? it keeps being realigned by a pixel in height, sometimes there is bleeding with the application display area below. plus they are able to do all this in less than a minute :) filmed on a dev board then stitched together ?