Three cheers for using the upgrade available on one of the other lines on my family plan to grab a G1 now, then using mine next year when an Android phone worth calling an upgrade is available (or perhaps switching carriers if it's available but T-Mo's not offering it).
This thing has exactly one benefit over the G1, so long as you're willing to root it, and that's the bigger battery. It actually is a meaningful difference, as the G1's ability to take advantage of any aftermarket batteries, whether a small boost to 1400 up to 2600 mAh, seems to be just abysmal. Otherwise, every new benefit of the MyTouch is also available in custom Android builds. For that matter, most things available to Hero users are available in custom builds of the OS as well.
Wake me up when something something Tegra something 3.7" capacitive something something something 4 row keyboard something 3.5 mm something memory cards bigger than 16 Gb.
The phone has 256MB of RAM and a 1GHz processor, which do the job reasonably well, though the Anna interface will likely leave something to be desired for many smartphone users.
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Three cheers for using the upgrade available on one of the other lines on my family plan to grab a G1 now, then using mine next year when an Android phone worth calling an upgrade is available (or perhaps switching carriers if it's available but T-Mo's not offering it).
This thing has exactly one benefit over the G1, so long as you're willing to root it, and that's the bigger battery. It actually is a meaningful difference, as the G1's ability to take advantage of any aftermarket batteries, whether a small boost to 1400 up to 2600 mAh, seems to be just abysmal. Otherwise, every new benefit of the MyTouch is also available in custom Android builds. For that matter, most things available to Hero users are available in custom builds of the OS as well.
Wake me up when something something Tegra something 3.7" capacitive something something something 4 row keyboard something 3.5 mm something memory cards bigger than 16 Gb.