T-Mobile G1 - Google Android Smartphone Review

Sorry to resurrect a zombie, but an important gotcha for any UK buyer is the voice dialling isn't active on the UK G1! How rubbish is that? It would have been a dealbreaker for me, had I known.

Had a G1 from t-mobile just before xmas, and I have to say it's the worst phone I've had, Build quality poor, some keys depressed and not sitting correctly. There's no BBC iplayer ever on wifi (you get it with iphone and ipod touch on wifi). No word (or any office) document reader or editors. No voice dialing. No Video camera. No sat. nav. No (3.5) headphone socket. No virtually anything we have come to expect from smartphones. The motion sensor does not rotate the screen! Only way to rotate the screen is to have the keyboard out and that can make it uncomfortable to hold. Worst phone camera ever! don't even think about taking a photo indoors as it can't handle low light or tungsten light and there's no flash. No synching with outlook or windows mail, no application to edit phone book or anything else from your PC, USB only charges phone and allows you to acess files on the micro SD card in the phone. Battery life very poor even when you turn off wifi, BT and GPS (with them on and a little web browsing, battery won't last a day! Web browsing tediously slow with the 3g and a wifi connection needed for reliable conection. My email works 20% of the time on 3G, yet 100% of the time on wifi! T-mobile insist there is good 3g coverage in my street, yet it drops off or is very, very low most of the time giving that retro feeling of a 14k modem. After some argument, they swopped the phone for another G1, but it's just as bad, and insist that there is no way to cancel a contract even when a customer can't get a connection and returns the phone in less than a week.

From Stuart :
"After some argument, they swopped the phone for another G1, but it's just as bad, and insist that there is no way to cancel a contract even when a customer can't get a connection and returns the phone in less than a week".

This is a real world report, the quote above says enough to deter me from ordering one despite T.Mobiles' sales people saying "just return it, if you don't like it".