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A review I completely 100% agree with! This phone would be nasty if it had been released 2 years ago! It would also be nice if companies would stop getting us to do their own R&D. So many products these days are released way too early with terrible buggy OS's and poor hardware implementation and limited software...Do your own work, or pay us to submit 'bug' reports and feedback- how about 1p for every report submitted? Can you imagine if MS did that? We'd all be rich!
Well the phone is made by HTC and it doesn't surprise me the hardware is no where near as some of HTC own devices such as the Diamond Pro, Diamond Touch and their new flagship device HTC Touch HD.
I can't wait for some cooked ROM with Android on the Touch HD. That will be awesome software on awesome hardware...
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It's just occurred to me what the G1 remind me of; looks like the Sidekick with the top lopped off and a bigger screen! Further adding to the dated look though...
The hardware is very similar to that of the Diamond, the same 528MHz processor, the same ROM/RAM 256MB/192MB (some on the processor chip, some separate), and all the hardware is more recent, and better than the equivalent Apple hardware (the iPhone processor is underclocked, so the stock speed of the processor is virtually irrelevant). The design may not be to every ones taste, and at the risk of seeming mildly insane, I quite like it, it reminds me of some older devices (notably the HTC Trinity, and HTC Prophet, in fact, the front of the upcoming Blackstone is similar), and is understated.
Getting Android to run on the Blackstone will be a challenge, as WM and Android have different boot processes, and everything from the SPL to the Radio ROM will need to be rewritten to work on the subtly different hardware. Add to that the fact that Android doesn't have a SIP yet, and Blackstone + Android seems unlikely in the near future (unless you don't mind not being able to do anything on your nice expensive handset). Running Android within something like haret should be relatively simple, but having it as a standalone OS will not be.
If you don't like the OS, don't buy it and stop complaining, or rewrite it yourself! The code's all freely available! Google have done something spectacular by entering the phone business without any hardware, or OS experience at all (yes I know this device is manufactured by HTC, but the OS isn't). Let them get on with it, and develop something even better!
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@lifethroughalens: I don't get you. Not only does nobody force you to buy an Android phone, but you also complain about a largely superior development process. I guess it's not obvious to non-programmers but software is never a finished product. Sure, there is a certain degree of finalization that software undergoes before major releases, but that's barely appliable to a project as immense and complex as an OS.
Thanks to Android's open nature, its "early" release will make it grow exponentially faster: whatever internal testing Google could have done in a year will have been done by its partecipative user base in a few months, and whatever software Google could have written by itself in that time will instead be created or improved by thousands of programmers all over the world. People need to start understanding open source, because that's what most software will be like in the future.
Oh, about the review... I wouldn't have given such low votes. It's a pretty decent first effort, and I find it an excellent choice that the first Android-equipped phone isn't an ultra high end one. To me, it seems as if it's aimed more at developers: the real consumer stuff will come later.
...And to be completely sincere I like the step back in terms of size. The thinness war has already come to the point where it's hurting ergonomics, the G1 suffers from the inverse problem but it's at least a welcome change of pace.
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@Frank: If you're transferring from another phone to the G1 you could just send all the contacts as Vcards by Bluetooth, tis what I did to transfer contacts quickly from a Symbian phone to a new WM model...
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OK Francesco,
I know that no one is 'forcing' me to buy one - but still this is a very underwhelming handset that, in my opinion, should have been designed a bit better especially when it comes to the implementation of the keyboard. I think that the Android OS will be great step forward when it comes of age (probably 2 years of consumer feedback and development), but coming from a consumer's point of view as of today, it represents poor value for money if you just compare prices, looks & features of the handset and the (relatively expensive) tariffs that it's currently available on. Yes, I know great stuff will follow from the developers around The World which will probably give it the spit & polish it needs to sell huge.
Bear in mind that this review is more about the G1 phone and less about the Android OS. Still, it would have been nice if the OS had been developed a tad further before release and if more applications made available. Integrated Google maps and Google mail don't really cut the mustard when your looking at having to carry a handset *that* ugly around with you!
I do really look forward to the G2 & G3 and the day when, as a consumer, you can choose your OS of choice on any hardware (or even dual boot on a mobile).
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