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T-Mobile G1

85

Very Good

  • Pros
  • Highly responsive touchscreen
  • Android OS offers great flexibility
  • Cons
  • No standard headphone jack
  • Fair battery life
  • Performance: Good: 71
  • Features: Very Good: 86
  • Design: Very Good: 89
Performance
Battery Life Average (hh:mm)5:51
Battery Life Word ScoreGood

News, Reviews, How-To's about G1

  • Google Makes iPhone the New eBook Reader: Watch Out, Kindle Google beefs up Google Book Search efforts optimizing over a million titles for mobile devices including iPhone and T-Mobile G1.
  • Google Launches Android Market Arriving along with the official launch of T-Mobile's G1 is Google's Android Market, a place where G1 owners can download mobile applications.
  • The Google Android Phone Arrives T-Mobile's G1, the first phone out with Google's Android operating system, is finally here. The G1 boasts excellent ergonomics and call quality, but it's held back by basic omissions, such as no standard headphone jack and a camera with few features.
  • In Pictures: 15 Killer Android Apps for the G1 If Google wants its Android-based phones to unseat Apple's iPhone as the top touch-screen handsets, it will have to offer cool apps. On the G1, T-Mobile customers will be the first to check out about 50 available applications. T-Mobile says that all apps are free until 2009. Here's a look at some of them.
  • Why Android's 'Kill Switch' Is a Good Thing Google's first Android phone, T-Mobile's G1, has a "kill switch" that allows for remote removal of programs T-Mobile doesn't want you to use. Is this a good thing?

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