videos, fan sites, and ever-cranking rumormills, it's like we knew all about the first Googlephone before we ever got our mitts on one: a boatload of apps available through the Market, built-in Amazon music store, 3G, Wi-Fi, Google Maps with Street View, that crazy shape-driven lock code, and so on. Sure enough, all those message board stars are present and accounted for on the G1, but don't worry: There are still plenty of surprises to keep you entertained.
Surprise #1: Android is pretty freaking on-point for a first-gen software release. Sure, it has bugsWeb pages don't automatically re-size and the zoom feature blowsbut it's also remarkably polished, bristling with nifty tricks. Take the long touch: Not unlike the windows-born right-click, it brings up useful contextual menus. Long touch a field of text, for example, and you get the option to select it, copy it, or paste something in .
In fact, if you can't abide fingerprints, you can get around the G1 quite well without ever smearing the glass. There's a BlackBerry Pearl-esque trackball in the center of the button bank that lets you cruise menus, websites, or any other screen you can bring up. Five other buttons flank the trackball: the ubiquitous green and red phones, "back," "home," and "menu.
The phone's main interface is a 3.2-inch touchscreen that swivels out of the way along an arced path to reveal a QWERTY keyboard. The keyboard is fine, but that frakking curved button bank makes typing uncomfortable. Also, since the screen swings to the right, non-lefties will have to reach across the phone to flip it open with their thumbsand no amount of soft-touch plastic is going to keep them from dropping the G1 from time to time.
The capacitive touchscreen is fineneither the best nor the worst we've seen in terms of appearance or sensitivity. G-Mobile uses a half-assed haptic feedback mechanism to confirm touches, but you can turn it off.Android is legit, and future iterations should get even more impressive. 3G on a T-Mobile phone. Tons of apps that will keep you entertained for the duration of your 2-year contractand all of them are free until Google decides on a way to charge.
Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)
would love to have it again with an actual andoid version!
Can we please have a physical keyboard device.
That's a phone that makes sense!
I loved my G1 and G2. The flip design with the mouse/touchpad were awesome.
banksh0t84
Damn the sidekick wanna be
I want one with that functionality but today's software.
CC Foone
I sorely miss having a physical keyboard.
I had that one! And that’s why I have not had any other Android phone since then…
I didn’t get this model, but I got one of the first google phones on sprint, and it sucked so hard
😭I remember owning the G1
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