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Nice review. Sounds sort of like how I felt about the iPhone last year. Looks pretty cool, has some potential, but not yet enough to make me switch.
Round Robin: TiPb vs Android G1 Final Review
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Google's Android is the future of smartphones. At least, it's one of the possible futures. Alongside the iPhone, it's the OS I'm most intrigued by, and that the two companies have chosen such different strategies in tackling the future only makes it ever so much more exciting.
The iPhone is an ordered, iconic device made entirely by Apple, with all the integration and fit and finish -- and frustratingly capricious omissions -- that only a single guiding mind can achieve. Android, by contrast, is chaotic and communal, designed by Google to free developers and fit a multitude of tastes and form-factors -- with all the possible confusion and derivation open source has to offer.
Which one is "better" is a ridiculously impossible question to answer -- each platform has its strengths and weaknesses and each user their own unique needs and preferences. Frankly, we're fortunate to live in a time where there are so many truly awesome devices from which to choose. (Even a few years ago -- and yes, I'll say it, pre-iPhone shockwave -- things were far, far more bleak.)
For my part, all I can really do is tell you how I use a smartphone, and how well the Android G1 fits that usage bill.
I really need to point out, up front, that the G1 is a beta device. There, I said it. Unlike Windows Mobile or Blackberry OS, which have been on the market for years and years, and the iPhone OS which is already on 2.x, Android has just hit the market with all the promise and problems that inevitably go with that. The Android device I experienced this week will absolutely and without question be blown away by whatever Android device(s) hit the market next year. So, it's not a fair comparison for Android from the get go, and I beg everyone to remember that when I lay... er... get into it below the fold.
Getting Started
After far too few hours of sleep, I count on the alarm to make sure I'm out of bed early enough to delay my getting fired for at least another day. Good news. Easy to set. Easy to turn off.
Roughly the same as the iPhone Clock alarm, it's more utilitarian (a theme we'll be seeing often) and while that will appeal to some, I miss the eye-candy and pure fun of the iPhone flick-wheels.
Form Factor
Picking up the hardware, it feels good in the hand. It's heavy but in a solid sort of way, narrower but thicker than the iPhone. The soft-touch plastic is definitely easier to hold onto. The design, however, is... well... less than attractive, and certainly nowhere near as sexy as the iPhone.
Dieter has made a good point that the G1 hardware had to be like this. If it was wrapped inside an iPhone or Blackberry class package, people wouldn't be as forgiving of the beta software. This way, the outside matches the in. Clunky is as clunky does. It's the Google stripped down interface and perpetual "beta" tag made manifest.
And that manifestation? While each part of the two-part keyboard and screen slider is good in and of itself, the mere fact that it's two parts makes it feel creakier and squeakier when you grip it. It's not the solid slab of the iPhone, but then the iPhone only achieves its form by completely throwing away the keyboard function. The G1 is all about function over form.
(Note: I couldn't find an elegant way to take screenshots absent downloading a dev kit, so I opted for photography. Apologies for the lousy quality, the screens are really bright and beautiful.)
First thing I do is hit a button to wake the phone, and menu to unlock. Then there's the awesome puzzle-game unlock. Not sure why I have to hit Menu first and then the puzzle though. One unlock would be enough.
As with the iPhone, I'd like for there to be a today screen. (Marketplace, which I'll get to later, will likely fill that void at some point if it hasn't already.)
I heard alerts go off during the night, and the notification bar shows calendar and email waiting. I love this feature. Sure, I'd rather just tap or swipe to reveal it, rather than have to pull it all the way down, but the feature itself it great.
(Actually, I'd really like a pop up to be right there when I turn the G1 on, even before I hit "menu". When I get an alert on the iPhone, if I look right away it's already popped up on the screen. If I miss it, it pops up as soon as I wake the phone. I need that! If a future version combined the best of both, it would be notification bliss!)
User Experience
Here comes my major rant, and I'll get it out of the way early so I can hopefully redeem myself to the Androidikas later: Android as it stands right now has a terrible, borderline-incompetent lack of consistency and user-friendliness to its interface/experience. (Which is something the iPhone absolutely kills at, making this all the more frustrating to me).
Navigation is completely non-intuitive and you are continuously left to guess which of the myriad (too many!) input methods is needed at any given time. Keyboard, touchscreen, scroll wheel, and hard buttons are all good, all fine, really. But all at once?
First example, I turn on the phone and a beautiful home screen greets me. I swipe the touch screen and super-sweet parallax scrolling takes me to a Google search box. I tap the box and it lights up and I get a cursor, suggesting input can be made. But I can't make it. It is utterly unmakable!
I can tap away and nothing will happen unless it occurs to me to open the slider keyboard, at which point the screen will rotate and I can enter text. (Would it have been so much work to either add a virtual keyboard -- don't tell me it's coming later, or the text box should come later too! -- or just make a popup tell me to open the keyboard to enter?)
Second, there are two (2!) mail apps (more on that later) and while the regular mail app has nice, persistent controls like "reply" at the bottom of the screen, the Gmail app tosses them in-line at the bottom of page -- which is often quite a lot of scrolling away (yes, I know there are keyboard shortcuts and menu options -- exactly the point of this rant!)
Third, when there are those menu options sometimes needful controls are hidden -- tragically -- behind the "more" touchscreen button. No effort has been made to elegantly or intuitively direct a user to the right control at the right time, nor to keep controls consistent within input methods or between apps. For shame. That needs to be overhauled completely in the next major rev.
Okay, rant over. I shan't mention it again. (At least I'll try very, very hard not to).
Yup, I check it as soon as I get up. My job entails supporting offices in different time zones, and TiPb never sleeps, so there's usually a ton of stuff piled up in my inbox. One of my biggest gripes about the iPhone is how many clicks it takes to move between email accounts. If you drill down, you must drill back up. Will Android help me out there?
A bit, as we'll see. Of course, there shouldn't be two email apps to begin with, just one GUI, and Android should handle everything else transparently. Since both apps have their good and bad points, combine all the good into one would be killer.
Gmail App
I'll just say it -- push Gmail is awesome. I want it on the iPhone right now. Forget Street-view or Location Sharing in iPhone OS 2.2, Google -- give me push Gmail!
I use Gmail for both my personal and TiPb mail. Unfortunately, Gmail app only supports one (1) Gmail account (the iPhone only supports one ActiveSync account, but I seem to be able to set up more than one Mobile Me Account.) My personal account won the coin toss.
Setup was easy. Actually, you have to set up Gmail in order to activate the G1, the same way you need iTunes to activate the iPhone, so it needs to be easy.
Once I plugged in my credentials -- skidoosh! -- all my personal mail "just worked" with instant Google goodness.
Confession: I did find the controls a little confusing (and both trashed and spammed Crackberry Kevin -- sorry Kevin!), but luckily Dieter posted the aforementioned excellent keyboard shortcuts. In any case, stars are right there. Labels are right there. Everything anyone who has ever used Gmail via the web interface has ever wanted in a client is right there. If the next rev cleans up the controls, this could be the killer app.
Mail App
Absent built in Exchange support, which the iPhone OS 2.x enjoys via ActiveSync, I set up my work email, and my TiPB Gmail both in IMAP. I'd used IMAP for iPhone OS 1.x, so while it's nowhere near as robust as ActiveSync, it got the job done. Gmail, due to Google's "unique" implementation of mapping Labels to IMAP folders, has never been enjoyable to me, not on the iPhone, and not here, but it also gets the job done well enough for now.
I should point out that Gmail IMAP generates regular invalid certificate, simultaneous connection, and other errors to the point of being utterly useless at times for me on both the desktop and iPhone (and Twitter shows I'm not alone), but I had no problem with either of those things on the G1. Either I got lucky, or Google's got some extra special mojo at work here.
Like the Gmail App, navigation is more challenging than it ought to be. Also, I ended up keeping it on manual as far as when to check mail, since anything automatic thrashed the battery life something fierce. This meant I had to wait each time I opened the app for it to download new messages, and even on WiFi this seemed to take longer than the iPhone does.
The Four Pillars of PIM
Once mail is triaged, it's time for me to figure out the day. Now, I don't use tasks/to do or memo/notes (don't tell Dieter!). This may be because the iPhone just totally FAILS by not providing sync features for them. So, to be honest, I don't know if Android does this or does it well. It's simply outside my current usage pattern.
iCal synced via MobileMe is my main modus operundi. I don't use gCal on Google's server, but I did manage to export my main calendars as ICS files and import them into gCal for instant syncing to Android. Sweet!
I'm still looking for a direct (i.e. non-3rd party) way to simply subscribe to my iCal calendars in gCal using CalDAV, but while Android Central forum members pointed me to great directions for doing the opposite (subscribing to gCal in iCal), I'm still looking for my holy grail. (Anyone seen it?)
It's a great calendar app. Not as good as Gmail, not as bad as Contacts (wait for it). As Casey will tell you, Week View merely being present is a big plus over the iPhone.
I'm going to rant again. I don't understand how the same company that makes Gmail can put out what they laughingly call Google Contacts. This, above all, made my life with Android miserable.
First, I turned on Google Sync in Address Book and immediately my contacts were beamed to the cloud. Then they were condensed and rained back down on me in tiny, droplet-y fragments. See, Google seems to just randomly add contacts almost always without any sort of container or relationship. Suddenly I had 3 to 10 contacts per person, some just email addresses, some just phone numbers, almost none linked in any useful way.
I did my best to clean it up, but searching for contacts by name seldom if ever turned up their numbers, and when people called me, I almost never got the name of the caller even if it should have been in there.
[Note: Dieter in contacts above, but no numbers, no email, no nothing. FAIL!]
Since I've long since lost the ability to actually remember numbers, this made the phone all but unusable for me at times. To be clear, however, this is not Android's problem, it's Google Contacts and Android inherited it. And this is not just my opinion, it's an opinion I've seen echoed by many otherwise extremely happy Gmail users.
Please fix this, Google. Pretty please?
On the super epic plus side, however, this did mean I got all my data onto the G1 over the air. No tether. No cable. Totally leash free. MobileMe and ActiveSync users know this freedom. Android users know it as well.
We browsing is huge on the iPhone. It's inarguably the best mobile browser implementation yet. How does the Google Browser stack up? Pretty well. The lack of multi-touch is a huge hit, no way around that, but the rendering (based on the same open source WebKit foundation as the iPhone's Safari) is snappy and it's much, much, (much!) more stable than the iPhone was under 2.1 (let's hope 2.2 has fixed that).
I had nary a crash all week.
I do wish, however, that it would auto-scale pages and fit text the way MobileSafari does. Having to manually adjust each page with the magnifying buttons got old fast. On the UI massive FAIL front, not being able to tap the touch screen to activate a URL chooser was stupefying. You can start typing on the keyboard to do that, of course, or hit the menu button and then touch "Go to URL" but -- again -- forcing a user to open a keyboard or switch between input methods is just way, way broken.
Android's browser doesn't currently support flash, though it looks like it may soon. When you get to a YouTube video, you're prompted to launch it in the YouTube app (like on the iPhone) or to view it in the browser. The former works just like you'd expect (hey, Google owns YouTube!), the latter, however, then asks you to download Java and Flash. Er... Howsabout we remove that until after Flash is made into a plugin, b'okay guys?
I like the phone app quite a bit. I liked it when I used it on the Treo. I say that because it's almost identical. Same tabbed approach to the same basic usage choices. They worked then, they work now, and as Steve Jobs so rightly said, phone is the killer app.
The only problem I had is that when I had to enter extra digits, opening up the keyboard while keeping the handset to my ear was tricky to say the least. Sure, they've invented speakers and headsets for that stuff, but I should have an onscreen keypad as well. Or is it there and I just missed it?
Pairing with my Blue Tooth was a synch. Once and a while it wouldn't work, and I would find the BT radio turned off, but turning it back on would again enable flawless use. Android really nailed this.
In general, however, I could use a little more visual differentiation in the settings between buttons that simply toggle on/off radios like WiFi and BT, and buttons that take you to those radios settings. Identical slices of a single vertical list with only check marks vs. arrow circles isn't really enough.
The iPhone, with its iPod pedigree, is a media powerhouse. It's the media powerhouse! How does Android stack up?
The lack of a built-in video player ranks up there with the lack of MMS on the iPhone. Both are inexplicable. To Android's credit, however, a video player is just one short trip to the Market away. (Want MMS on your iPhone and jailbreaking is your only current option).
Music is built in, both the player and the Amazon MP3 store. And they're fine. Since Amazon hasn't seen fit to offer the service in Canada yet, I was shut out of fully testing it. Come on, Amazon!
I'm not much of a music listener (the irony is not lost, believe me), so fine was good enough. What I am, though, is a voracious podcast listener. My feed is clogged with every Smartphone Experts cast, most of TWiT and Pixel Corp, GDGT, and many more. (I save video podcasts for the big screen).
Again, this meant a trip back to the Market to get a podcatcher... something (also ironically) Apple refuses to allow into the iPhone App Store.
I'll be honest here -- it worked but nowhere near as well as iTunes, which while still tether-bound until iPhone OS 2.2 (which may well hit today!), is just buttery smooth. Time-outs and failed downloads plagued me (which may also be the case in 2.2, who knows at this point?).
When I don't have time to tether the iPhone, I've tried streaming via web links and the Quicktime plugin, which is hit and miss as sometimes the connection stalls and unlike a downloaded podcast, it never remembers your location if it you come back to it later.
Android was very similar, though perplexingly after I typed in a URL with the keyboard and clicked to begin the stream, closing the keyboard would stop the stream. This is most likely a bug and will hopefully be fixed.
Photos on the iPhone is one of those apps you do demos with. Multi-touch just kills it. So, while Android can handle photos just fine, it doesn't have anywhere near the fun factor of the iPhone.
Strangely, cover art for the podcasts I downloaded somehow flooded my photos app, so the top level looked more like an iTunes tab than a set of albums!
Android Market
This is the area where Android has the potential to really decimate the iPhone. Given all of Apple's restrictions on the App Store and the iPhone SDK, including no multi-tasking, no access to the iPod, no turn-by-turn, etc. etc. ad naseum infinitum, the freedom of the Android Market (even though it too has a kill switch) should release the true power of developer innovation.
One day.
Today, it's still a little on the far side of slim pickings. This may simply be due to the lack of a commercial option on the built-in app -- serious developers who make great software need to be paid enough to support their making great software. Hopefully this will shake out rapidly.
Since the default Android IM client wouldn't work for me (it was upset I wasn't using a T-Mobile SIM -- apparently it ties into SMS), I went in search of a 3rd party client from the Market.
Android Market works pretty much the same as the App Store, with a few little differences in the UI. Some of them are useful, but the polish wasn't there, so I'm calling it even at this point.
It was easy enough to find an IM app, and dead simple to install and use it. Strangely, it kept logging me out, defeating the purpose of multi-tasking, but I eventually found a preference setting to keep me logged in and receiving IMs in the background. That was awesome! ... until my battery very rapidly ran dry.
Push has its price. Maybe this is what's (still!) delaying Apple's Push Notification Service?
I also downloaded a game. I game very little, and very casually -- often just to wind down before going to sleep. As anyone who's seen my video know, it was frustrating. Not the download, that was easy. The game, however, told me to "push up to start". Touch screen up did nothing. Keyboard had no up key. Finally I hit the trackball and voila. This is the double edge to the Android Market Store: absent a unified hardware platform like the iPhone, you never know what input methods will be available on any given piece of equipment, and which ones will be in use on multiple input devices. This developer clearly should have allowed upward swipes on the touch screen, when a touch screen is present.
The game itself, aside from being the most popular at the time of my download, was fine for freeware, but nothing like what we've seen on the iPhone.
But it was enough to put me to sleep.
Another plus: on app update notification. I find having to go to the App Store on the iPhone inefficient at times, and really liked how Android alerted me to updates right from the app.
Again, this is a beta OS on mundane hardware and is ultimately and absolutely fine. It's fine. Really.
I was expecting more. I was expecting what I have every ounce of confidence Android 2.0 will be.
Problems vs. promise was the theme of my entire week with the G1. It's not an iPhone killer, not by any stretch of that overused drip of marketing hyperbole... but it could easily become one if Apple isn't very careful.
Unlike Apple, Google isn't secretly building devices to slip out of their jean pockets at trade shows and shock and delight the world first time at bat. They're taking a decidedly Microsoft-ian approach of releasing concept pieces and using the early adopters to test and refine. Microsoft typically does horrible first revs, poor second revs, and then starts to nail things third time at bat. Hopefully Google will hit their home run faster.
I know I'm desperately rooting for them.
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Round Robin: TiPb vs Android G1 Final Review
Talk about comprehensive review. Great job. Thanks.
Sweet review, thanks... no android for now...
the calendar is hideous!
Very thorough and fair review. Best point made is the 2.0 of Android and how bright the future of cell phones will be between G1 and iPhone.
I liked the review, and agree with the comments, especially the ones regarding contacts - that does need to be streamlined. I must say, I disagree with the section entitled "User experience." I found the phone to be very intuitive and easy to use. I mean, really, once you highlighted the google search box, how could you not think to enter text via the keyboard? Does that really need to be explained? I guess I just found the OS a lot more intuitive. Still, nice review.
This was a very good review. I can't wait to here you talk about the rest of the phones.
I'm sorry but I love/need the extremely polished look of the iPhone OS. Its beautiful, Android looks so amateur, like Windows 95. Better luck next time, Google.
I liked that review, thanks! Very detailed. I'll just comment on one thing: the G1 user interface is quite ugly. Doesn't look refined at all, but it is still in beta phase I guess.
Great review. Something tells me that as Android becomes more refined, it will only cause Apple to start giving us more of what we asked for with the iPhone software updates. We can always hope.
Really good review. More competition, the better.
Wow. The contacts would drive me crazy
Beautiful review
Youre right all them inpit methods are riduculous
That was a very good review that made mr look at the T-Mobile G1 in a new way, I guess I can say I respect it LOL I will never ever give up my 3g but like you said this is a true beta phone so who knows what's in the future for Android. Overall a great review!!
We can all hope that some more hardware options are on the way.
Very nice review, probably the best I've seen of the G1. I'm no Google nut, so I won't even consider this phone, but you give it a very fair shake and provide a good feel for how it works.
Great review. As for the contacts there is a option to only show contacts with phone numbers and there u you contacts fixed.
Excellent review. I will admit that I had a slight better experience with the G1 than you did, but maybe I have a higher tolerance for UI inconsistency than most. :)
ota updates definitely a bonus. something all smartphones should have.
Did they hire the old Macromedia team to design that UI?
Wow... that was long. Keep trying Google. I do like that slide up screen though. I got to handle one at a local T-Mobile booth and really liked the way it slid up. It made a very satisfying cli-click sound. Ahh but moving parts... not good...
Amazing review, I'm really interested in seeing what the android could be when it reaches it's full potential.
Hopefully I could win an iphone to tide me over until then at least?
Wow that was a very thorough review. Thanks! This is especially helpful to any iPhone users because you see the G1 from the same perspective we do =D.
Thanks for the great review! I have every confidence that Google is listening so...watch out 3G! I just wanted to point out something that really bugged me about the G1, in case it helps anyone, which is the curved-up end bit of that remains when you slide out the keyboard. I guess it's meant for gaming, but I found that it really interfered with my ability to type fast. It just makes holding the phone really awkward. I have small hands and small fingers, so maybe it's not a big deal for most, but the phone was just uncomfortable and inefficient for me to hold and type.
Nice review! I don't know about them taking three times to improve the phone though, they could release updates in the app store to improve the phone, making the first one better. But, they probably won't be able to make it amazing with just updates, so it might take one or two tries, maybe even three.
Great review you alwats have the best
Was this a serious review?
Contacts are sync's to your gmail contacts. If your gmail contacts are messy and out of order... guess what.. they will be messy and out of order on your phone.
Also you keep repeating that the OS in in beta.. This OS is far more polished than palm, RIM, and windows mobile. I would still give the iphone the advantage as far as polish is considered.
To all the people that keep saying "great review" do any of you own the G1? Or are you simply looking to reaffirm your past purchase of the iphone?
I take my last comment back, i posted before reading the entire thing.
I stand by my "contacts" remark, you just need to organize them.
The review makes the valid point that Android is a work in progress and shows much promise. Promise doesn't get work done, of course. But frankly, I'm puzzled by about half the review. I think the vast majority of users will plow through the interface inconsistencies without breaking stide. At worst there will be a modest learning curve. For example, how hard is it to recognize that the keyboard is needed for character input? A lot less than learning the iPhone's virtual keyboard, I reckon. As for contacts, I imported over 100 from my Mac's Address Book with minor cleanup. I have no idea what went wrong with Rene's contacts because I did not use the Mac's export option (which is apparently available only to iPhone users); I followed Google's instructions for the G1. But the real question is: why is he "desperately rooting for them."
Great review it seems at this time the G1 has a ways to go in order to really compete with iPhone. I'm looking forward to seeing what google and 3rd party devlopers will do with android over the next year.
My brother has a G1 and I have an iphone. We argue about it all the time, but my iPhone is obviously better than his G1.
Nice review! I really want to get my hands on a G1 so I can try it out for myself, unfortunately none of the T-Mobile stores in Maine are carrying it since there is no 3G here. One guy at a T-Mobile kiosk told me tonight that the G1 "doesn't work in Maine". Is it sad that I know more about their phones than T-Mobile employees, or am I just too much of a smartphone obsessed gadget whore?
Good review. I'm tempted to pick up a G1 but there are a few too many problems at the moment.
Well after reading this review, it def knocked down the G1 a notch for me, it's not as "capable" as I have recently given it credit for, but again...No G1 in Canada so it's non relevant to me anyways and even if I did have one their would be no 3G on it.
while the original interface complaints are somewhat justified.. what we fail to truly realize in this review is that EVERYTHING in the interface can be altered via the market place and rearranged, and a personalized home screen with widgets and shortcuts to all the apps/features that you utilize.. to me its the true thing to love about the "device" it may take you some time.. but rather than having the same setup that may work for another but not for you, you can truly personalize it to your own personal liking.. just like the visual voicemail that i like that some don't.. the G1 didn't come with, but added via the market place..
Looks like I'll wait until next year to get an Android device. Hopefully by then the details will be finalized and the hardware will be more impressive.
Apparently you dont fully understand the G1 - I have to disagree with your assessment that the G1 is nto intuitive - my brothers and I did User Acceptance on our own between the G1 and iPhone and found that the G1 is easy to use and, while it does take a bit more setup to get it to that iPhoneease of use, it has a lot more potential due to the open source-ness of the phone. Remember, the iPhone is a more "mature" phone based on it was released 2 years ago!
Everyone jumped on Sprint when Dan Hesse said that "Android isn't ready for us yet." And yet Rene gives a great review... stating that Android isn't ready yet. It's a beta, it will improve, but right now it's not ready for the big guys.
Great review. Definitely room for improvement with the G1, but a solid start for Google, regardless.
"But it was enough to put me to sleep." - Haha, classic!
I understand that the Android is a work in progress, but then they shouldn't have released it until it was good, or even better, perfect. we, the consumers, don't need another average phone. We need a good one.
Seriusly tell me the iPhone isn't better with a straight face.
Is it better than a Blackjack?
The G1 Android was about as ready for heavy use at introduction as any new smartphone. Name one that didn't have problems and shortcomings. The difference is that Android is designed to be improved quickly by the community and in ways limited only by our imagination. Most companies such as Sprint want a lot more control over "their" phones. Pooh on them.
Haha, pathetic review. If you don't realize that you need the keyboard to input text, then the rest of this review is just a joke.
They have a lot to fix
This is a great review, and the G1 does okay especially for an OS that isn't completely buttoned down. The G1 did get my attention when it came out, but its not on my short list...currently debating between the BB Bold and the iPhone 3G.
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Good, honest review. Very much what I expected. This is a new born OS stuffed in a new born device. It is not dificult to guess the results.
The danger is if they pretend to make it grow overnight with steroids or allow it to go through the normal stages of development from childhood to mature grown up.
If I win I'll send my ipod!
The iPhone may be more mature, but the iPhone debut is still way better than the G1 debut.
I needs this!!
oh please tipb. !!
If I win I will be so greatful!!
Since Android is an Open Source operating system not just the phone do you feel that the iphone would be better equipped if it ran on the Android system ?
No. Apples OS is already Kikass
Well I guess you are right.
However having something that is
open source is pretty nice.
Right now I am still with the iphone but
everyone does better with some competition.
Android isn't at its best yet but it is an interesting contender and can only help but make apple produce a better more open product.
I need MiPhone
That is what I hope KLutes, Jordan you want an iphone I guess =)
Very thorough review
Psssh. Iphone is better
um jordan it might be better at this moment, but i think that g1 is better than iphone (not 3g, the old one)
Why do you think the g1 is better Randy ?
Having played with the G1 for 5 days now, I'm comfortable to say that G1 works better for me than iphone.
Points I like over the iphone:
1, the physical keyboard, despite a steep learning curve on the use of tiny keys and the poor contrast of letters on the white and bronze model, I give it 8 over 4 for iphone. I do agree that on-screen touchboard should be offered as an option for quick single-hand inputs, preferably via a small touch button, much like the home screen slider for applications, this way it avoids the severe loss of screen space if the virtual keyboard pops up everytime there's an inputbox, the big no no for me on the iphone.
2, Gmail is my main app, and it's a bliss o the G1. Yahoo mail is my spam-rich second app, easily setup in the POP mail app. 10 over iphone's 5 (10 if I use mobilme, purely subjective here).
3, webbrowsing is much better for me, because I happen to like the fact that the pages are displayed in a readable fontsize and zoom level by default, and occasionally, the page is formatted messy due to odd placement of the ads, it's easy to find the right part of the page via the on screen zoom tools. This is important as most people would go straight to reflex whining "where's multitouch", the fact is that although multitouch is a brilliant invention and it works well with two hands, it most definitely "requires" two hands, android's setup is clearly a result of IP, but it's also an intelligent design, because I can browse much easier using only one hand to swipe/scroll/move the view window around, and most time without zooming. On the iphone the pages openup in the lowest zoom level, I guess intended to show the whole page, but makes it a pain to read nytimes or newyorker, because you'll be forced to zoom in everytime. G1 8, iphone 6, both need Flash and full JAVA app support to be ideal.
4, the trackball on G1 is a great addition, most useful for selecting tiny weblinks in pages like Yahoo financial, nytimes, and most link-dense pages. Again I dislike constant zoom in and outs on the iphone. G1 8, iphone 6.
5, in additon to the major usability issues listed above, I like the width od G1, as it allows for easier handling using one hand (I'm a righty, but found myself holding the phone lefthanded a lot, and enjoying the single hand browsing); generic usb/charging port is great, as I realize that I can use all my old Moto charging cords/car charger on the G1; battery can be changed and cheap on ebay; the white G1 is beautiful, however if the white iphone has white front I might have bypassed the Tmobil store, truth is I was on my way to the applestore to buy the white iphone, but the curiosity induced by online reviews got me in the t mobil store and I realised that most of the reviews did not do the G1 justice. G1 8, iphone 6.
Things I don't like but can be inproved via app download or software updates:
1, on screen keyboard should be offered to enhance single hand operation. Iphone 9, G1 0.
2, accelerometer should be activated for the web display. Iphone 10, G1 0.
3, web browser should add a couple more onscreen controls in addition to zoom, how about "back" and "forward" with multilevel dropdown menu if hold at the navigationsoftkeys? The use of "menu" hard button is fine, but some of the basic functions are buried too deep. Iphone 8, G1 5.
Things I don't like but can only hope for future hardwares:
1, reduced weight and thickness, not to the point that the phone can be served with cheese and dips though. The Jay Leno like chin can be made flat on the front and a weebit smaller.
2, headphone jack or stereo BT headphone support (software update?) Will help a little, but I would never waste battery juice on music, no way would I ditch my ipod nano over this.
That about it. And I think people should go play with the device for a hour or two to form an educated opinion, and evaluate based on individual needs. The G1 offers so much more than the factory first open base model, if you spend some time to customize it towards your own needs. Iphone and G1 should co-exist to force competition and evolve together. I love my G1, for the look, the feel, and the functionality. Oh, it's cheaper too long term.
Love the jawas
Did i mention that i typed the whole thing above using the G1's tiny keyboard? The few typos are good indication, but I bet it takes twice as long to type it on iphone, and i wonder how people see what they typed a few sentences ago on the iphone, the virtual keyboard on iphone takes half od the screen!
Sorry tigerstorm. iPhone wins.
Good review tho.
doesn't make me want one so far.
I'd love to win.
Pash razr is better. LOL jk
Only if the phone was nicer...The OS is nice but the phone is crap. =( The styling is uber failure.
I really would like to compare these two devices side by side with my using my friend's G1
So nice. ...
Good luck to everyone.
Ah, I can never trust those sliding keyboards.
nice review! i think the only thing i really liked about the g1 was android. to me, the hardware blew it. which boggles my mind because htc really has come out with great phones in the past and lately, so why does this one suck so bad hardware wise?
i love the OS but the styling kills it..
Personal rule: Never buy a 1st generation product. Rule also applies to beta products. :)
By the way, can anyone tell me a good reason why I should pay money to be a beta tester for a company?
Guess not.
Hey, is this thread really a thread anymore?
Hey, this is like talking to myself!
This is the best conversation I've had all day!
At least I can hear myself.
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A female juvenile was detained for shoplifting on Thursday after she tried to conceal a pair of earrings and exit Dillards in Aiken Mall.
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A breach of peace was reported at Wendys on Richland Avenue around 1 a.m. on Saturday. Officers found an employee from a concrete company breaking up a concrete pad in front of the restaurant with heavy machinery. The employee was given a warning and said he would adjust his work schedule.
A 14-year-old boy was detained for shoplifting after he tried to conceal items in his clothing at Walmart on Whiskey Road on Saturday.
An Aiken woman reported on Friday that someone keyed her vehicle while it was parked on East Gate Drive.
Two teenager were detained for shoplifting after they tried to take cookies from Walmart by concealing the items under their clothes.
A 30-year-old Aiken woman was detained for driving under the influence on Sunday after she was pulled over on Laurens Street
An unknown man entered the Walmart on Richland Avenue, placed a desktop computer into a shopping cart, pushed the cart out of the store, loaded the computer into a vehicle and left the store.
An Aiken woman reported that someone opened an account in her name with Verizon Wireless, resulting in a bill of more than $2,000.
An Aiken woman reported on Monday that she saw a man standing next to her vehicle outside her Palmetto Avenue home around 9 p.m. The man reportedly fled the scene when she turned the lights on outside her home.
Vehicle break-ins were reported to Aiken Public Safety on Richland Avenue, Majestic Oak Way and Greenville Street.
A shoplifting was reported at the Dollar General on Harvey Court in Aiken on Monday. Two women reportedly filled their purses with merchandise and left the store.
A 36-year-old man was detained for shoplifting on Monday after reportedly stealing items from a grocery store on Jefferson Davis Highway in Langley.
Stolen vehicles were reported to the Aiken County Sheriffs Office on Howlandville Road in Warrenville and Jefferson Davis Highway in Clearwater.
Vehicle break-ins were reported on Colderwood Drive in Aiken, Wall Street in Beech Island, Hatcher Drive in Warrenville and Milestone Circle in Aiken.
Burglaries were reported on Hatchaway Bridge Road in Aiken, Old Ninety Six Indian Trail in Batesburg, Aldrich Street in Salley, Ellison Estates Road in Salley, Rawls Mill Pond Road in Wagener, Audubon Circle in North Augusta, Gardenia Court in North Augusta, New Holland Road in Batesburg, Breezy Hill Drive in Graniteville, Pioneer Place in Aiken, Jacob Drive in North Augusta and Easy Street in Beech Island.
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my favourite animal is a Dog
because they are soooooo cute and friendly and fluffy and they are a great companion.
But unfortunately I don't have one .
If I get a dog it would be a.....urr......hmmm......some kind of terrier, probably a Yorkshire terrier or a border terrier.
What is your favourite animal today CharlesDarwinFan?
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mmmmmm........ not sure- maybe horse or tortoise
to look at is emporer tamirins though!!!
I love cats. Cos of their cute little paws and their georgous eyes. Aaah!
I am lucky to have one. He's so cute.
I personally love all creatures great and small.
They are all equally fandabidosy!
(ok-maybe dophins,dogs or other cute animals!)...........don't tell anyone!
I don't really have a favourite animal, sometimes I'll be obsessed with one animal then obsessed with another. But I have always loved Venus Flytraps, but that's a plant sooooooooooo...
At the moment I think that armadillos are pretty awesome because they role up and stuff (that is pretty bad reasoning)
My fav animal has got to be a dolphin, adele penguin or a marmoset becausee dolphins are cute and graceful( once i swam with them in portugal) adele penguins because theyre just small and cute and mrmosets coz theyre smaller and cute
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P.S sorry if thats not enough info xxx
Its two days after my other posting and now I love foxes because they're so sly and cunning which makes them pretty awsome.
(Armadillos are still cool too though)
My favorite animal changes all the time but one that never changes is a horse. I go horse riding and I usally ride a horse called Cathrise. She's really cute
but because she's so old she's REALLY lazy.
Cats.... No questions asked they rock!!!
I have 3 beautiful cat called Chloe, Decks and Mindy....
There puurrrfect in every way Chloe is very calm, loves to meow and she is also chubby *though I wish she wan't for health reasons*.... Decks is very scared when we adopted him from the animal shelter he was so small you couldn't feel him if he was on you and he hid behind our chairs for 2 days only coming out every now-and-then... now his a year he love us but is hides if there are people in the house he doesn't know...... And then there is Mindy, she is our youngest we fostered her a year after we got Chloe and Decks she was up a 30ft tree for two days before she was brought to the shelter we got her from.... little did we know this little 10 week old kitten got her self up their she if force of her own she is always up to something she has no fear of anything cars, dogs, people ect... I hate letting her out because she is to friendly and though she is now nearly a year she still is so small.... for example when we first let her after the she had been spay she clumbed my neighbors tree 6 time every time we got her down she got back, the other day a kid knocked on our door holding her asking is she was our cat.. turns out she was sitting on our window ledge attacking every cat that walked into our frount garden and a boy coming home from school walked up to her and started to strock when he was leaving she decided to follow him home so he had to bring her back... on christmas she decided to eat the string of a yoyo out of a xmas cracker so I had to rush her to the vets to be xrayed thankful it looked ok and she poop it out fine... but I love And would never give her up she started of as a foster kitten then we adopted her Decks was happy as he could play with her * however mindy doesn't know when to stop she beats the crap out of Decks* and he loves other cats chloe tolerates her something they play and get along sometimes they don't but most of the time they ignore each other as Chloe is a people cat
Though Chloe put on weight because of Mindy as Mindy rules the house where it use to be Chloe so she won't eat till mindy is done and she eats everything that was left *now she is on a speical diet*
cats re my fav as they are independent tey don't have owners the have slave, there easy to take care of and most cats are not bothered if you don't have the time to stroke them they happy a garden to run, YOUR bed not theirs, food and water. We would't have these beautiful cats today if it wasn't for my Fluffy *our old cat who died a year before we got Chloe and Decks* our semi-feral cat that we got when I was two he use to tear us to shreads on a day basis. He was always grumpy I couldn't walk up the stairs without him going for me, but, I loved him so much.... He was never just a cat he was part of our family he could scratch and attack us as much as he wanted if it made him happy I didn't care cuts heal but the whole left behind when he die won't..... but thanks to him I work in an animal shelter and we gave a home to 3 cats
her they are from right to left: Fluffy our semi-feral *he passed 2 years ago*, Chloe, Decks and Mindy
I like many animals, but my favorites are Elephants and Bears.
I think water bears (Tardigradae) are amazing.
When the place where they are living goes dry, they curl up and virtually all their systems shut down.
They have also been proven some of the most resistant animals.
They can survive a bath in a tub of liquid nitrogen, exposed to a degree of radiation millions of times more than normal levels and temperatures verging on absolute zero.
But best of all, NASA made an experiment by taking water bears into space, and some of them survived.
And to think that that these creatures can be "brought back to life" with a single drop of water.
P.S. I know this may sound like a jokre but look it up if you want and you'll see for yourself.
Cats and Giraffes because:
Giraffes have the same number of bones in it's neck as humans do
Cats have scent glands in their necks
A giraffes have either black or blue necks
My favourite fact:
However you throw a cat, it will always land on its feet! (No, I haven't tried)


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Reischuck Leads The Hawks In Loss at Medaille
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- September 29, 2011
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BUFFALO, NY – Sophomore Chelsea Reischuck pounded 11 kills (.263%) to lead the Hilbert women's volleyball team in a 3-set AMCC loss at Medaille College September 28. After a slow first set, the Hawks picked up their play and made things interesting the following two games (25-14, 25-20, 25-23). Hilbert drops to 0-3 in AMCC play while Medaille jumps to 3-0 after last weekend's opening of league play.
Reischuck earned 12 of the Hawks 29 points through a combination of kills and one block at the net. Sophomore Shannon Memminger was credited with all 18 of the teams assists and middle hitter Rachel Kwiatkowski served four services aces.
Medaille was led by Meghan Fahy (Oct. 26 – AMCC Player of the Week) with 16 kills (7 digs, 3 aces, 2 blocks).
Next up for the Hawks (2-8, 0-3) is a home tri-match October 1. Hilbert hosts La Roche at 11 am, La Roche then plays Alfred at 1 pm; the day ends with a Hilbert – Alfred rematch. Hilbert took the 3-set win at Alfred (25-23, 28-26, 25-19) September 17.
Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college's engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship, and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. The Hilbert Blueprint promotes a well-rounded student experience over four years – starting with the Foundations Seminar in the freshman year, followed by Sophomore Service, Junior Symposium, and culminating with the Senior Capstone. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college's first graduate programs and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.
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