Comments on: Aftermath: Our Thoughts on the HTC G1 and Android with video

By: TheBurren

TheBurren — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:31:04 +0000

@Truman–
Your entire blurb about Macs was one of the most ridiculous, uninformed, inaccurate rants I have ever seen. At no point do you seem remotely interested in stating anything that resembles a “fact”…

By: John A

John A — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:41:24 +0000

I like to know if you can download, HP software, as the T-Mobile Dash allows you to. I would like to also know if you can watch TV like Sprint and other Cellulars allow. I do not think that this Phone is really worth it, and to be forced to sign up for the Internest is just wasting your money. I need a phone that can double as a Financial Calulator. I am in the Business of, Doing Mortages and I am also an Insurance Agent. I need a Phone that can double as a Camera and Financial Calculator so I can Fingure out the cost of Mortages and Insurance Claims. I also use a Garmin 780 Navigation System, and this that they are trying to pull off as a GPS, is nowhere a GPS. It is just a wasted exspensive TOY. that is worthless and useless. You also have to be a Computer Pro just to Program or make use of the Software which is not even sure of its abilty of reliabilty. I think the T-Mobile Dash is a far better solution. It has the cababilty of Many useful software that can be used for the Finacial World of Business and you can use it to watch TV. The camera is very reliable also.

By: RockTripod

RockTripod — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:56:42 +0000

Btw, for those interested, the 1 gig cap has been re-worded to say they’ll down throttle those who use a LOT of bandwidth. It’d be nice if they specified what a lot mean, but I hope its more than a gig.

By: Dogzwild2k1

Dogzwild2k1 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:14:44 +0000

he was not pressing it hard enough because i think that the touchscreen reacts to pressure instead of temperature. I rather pressure touch(haptic) for many reasons because in the winter you could wear those gloves and still use the touchscreen to call someone or just mess around with the main screen….

By: RockTripod

RockTripod — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:32:03 +0000

The real question eating away at me is: if the G1 becomes available for a month to month flex pay plan, does it still count as a plan? Cue evil laugh. And now I wait for the douche comment from BGR.

By: Kontra

Kontra — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:04:37 +0000

Its manufacturer HTC called it “The most exciting phone in the history of phones.” I compiled a list of all software, hardware and service flaws of G1 and asked the question, “Would Apple have been utterly crucified and AAPL have tanked if the iPhone came out with so many shortcomings?” in:

The Big List: 30 critical issues with Google G1 phone
http://counternotions.com/2008/09/24/g1/

By: tmo dude

tmo dude — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:05:56 +0000

The 400 message plan is the same as T-Mobiles regular message plan, you get SMS/MMS with that.

Hey for $10 more get Unl;imited on both, that’s a great deal.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:17:56 +0000

As a long time Sprint customer and brand new AT&T employee (don’t ask) I have to say I’m a little bit jealous. I like the phone itself, my only problems are with the service. Obviously VZW has the best 3g coverage followed by Sprint and then AT&T, but T-Mobile is a far ways behind. 21 markets? So if I don’t live in a big city I don’t get 3G? I assume that’s why they decided to throw in WiFi, smart move. I’d like to see AT&T pick this up and just change to 850Mhz UMTS and I’d have my new phone. 1 Gig data cap? 5 gigs I could see but 1 gig is rediculous. T-Mobile gets a second glance for the hand set, but the service does not hook me. I’d like to see the handset offered on all 4 major carriers.

By: shootingblue

shootingblue — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:55:17 +0000

It depends when the last time you upgraded your phone, 179 is the full upgrade price, 299 is partial upgrade, 399 is full retail price

By: hartattack

hartattack — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:46:07 +0000

Why when I try to preorder (I’m a current Tmobile user) the price is listing $299.99

Am I not special?

By: illa

illa — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:30:40 +0000

lol @ truman.

Clown Shoes.

By: Steven I

Steven I — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:32:56 +0000

@Easybutton, UMA is a hardware function not a software function. UMA will not work with the G1.

By: Easybutton

Easybutton — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:07:19 +0000

hot spot is, @ home is not. maybe an app will be made for uma?

By: Seis

Seis — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:04:20 +0000

since it has wifi is it hot spot or tmobile at home compatible?

By: dand

dand — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:54:18 +0000

@ Tarex & Zach

I think the woman getting the Demo in the Vid was from Bloomberg News…. the dumbass who asked the stupid question during the press conference. I’m surprised I didn’t see an Anderson Cooper type there asking if the G1 can be used overseas. What is this world coming to.

~ shouts to the BGR team, truly a blog for the people

By: Baby Girl

Baby Girl — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:33:41 +0000

Well T-mo got me to sign a contract for another 2yrs. (I haven’t had one in 5 years).

By: Easybutton

Easybutton — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:19:04 +0000

The 1gb cap as well, they said that they reserve the right to cap, but it’s not an automatic throttle down. It’s a deterrent against tethering, if you are a constant burden they slow you for a month as a warning.

By: Easybutton

Easybutton — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:11:38 +0000

I asked about the messaging issue. IM is considered web, sms and mms is messaging.

By: ekul

ekul — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:13:17 +0000

razor1973: The android OS automatically manages all running activities (google’s name for what amounts to a screen in an application). If the foreground activity needs more resources then the device has remaining the OS gracefully kills the oldest activity you haven’t used. The state of the killed activity is saved and automatically restored when you return to the task so any half entered text and what not isn’t lost. In addition unlike iphone applications can spawn background services to complete tasks when their activities are not showing. So a music player would have an activity to choose the song to play. Once you choose the song a service is created to actually play the track. You can then browse the web. Android will kill the screen you chose the song with if it needs the RAM but when you browse back to that activity the activity is right where you left it whether it was killed or not.

Think of it like virtual memory extreme. Instead of swapping the entire application to disk android swaps only the bits of the application you have changed since it started running which takes a lot less space. Once Android starts the application up again the state file is applied and it’s as though you never left.

By: TC Dumas

TC Dumas — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:18:53 +0000

The 400 messages is ALL messages (text, video,mms) the 35.00 will be a better value if you text more than 400 in a month.

By: Denny

Denny — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:34:59 +0000

with t-mobile ‘messages’ include all types, they don’t distinguish between text/mms/IM

By: Markk

Markk — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:55:28 +0000

Sad thing is, Google has there 3G services capped at 1GB of usage and if that is exceeded service speeds will be reduced to 50kb/sec!! So don’t go balls crazy using that android now ya hear!

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:31:27 +0000

Yawn…looks like a child’s phone, jerky as heck, same old sidekick reference design. Score another KO for the iPhone…

By: Xebra

Xebra — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:15:23 +0000

Truman…get some paste for those roids…won’t be quite so cranky…

By: ddorsey

ddorsey — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:05:41 +0000

You can use right click on a mac, and if you want you can bring the browser full screen. Truman, you obviously have not used a Mac, at least not a recent one.

By: johnny

johnny — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:57:18 +0000

truman is the shit

By: rey

rey — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:03:21 +0000

street view is awesome !

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:45:59 +0000

Overall I’m very impressed with android and the G1. Ordered mine this morning and can’t wait for October 22.

By: TareX

TareX — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:22:38 +0000

AHA… I see Thanks Zach

By: SoonerLoud

SoonerLoud — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:15:51 +0000

Truman + his rant = epic pwnage.
No doubt, a $3k apple laptop has it’s place; sitting in a starbucks surfing for “does the iphone has a copy/paste function?”

Nice job truman.