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I got the G1, First Impressions

Posted by ctitanic on 10/25/08 in Android

Definitely, the ugliest thing I have seen in my whole life. You need sometime to get use to it, specially if you are going to use if just as a phone. To place a call you need to tap the screen at least 3 times and you have to look into the screen to do it so definitely this is not something that you want to do while you are driving. I’m probably too use to just hold pressed a key to dial a predefined number.  Making a call using your voice is a “fantasy” included in that phone. At least for me. My Windows Mobile Phone was a lot better in this point.

Using the phone as a GPS navigation system in your car is far away… yet. You can get directions but nothing that you can use while driving. Again, my Windows Mobile Device performs better thanks to 3rd party software. But having a GPS I doubt that we are not going to see these applications ported to Android.

I could not find anyway to install applications unless they are included in the Market Place. And there are applications out there like Opera for Android that I wanted to test. I stayed away from the iPhone because I did not like the whole concept of a close market but so far I have not seen anything different on this T-Mobile phone.

A lot of potential so I’ll keep it but I would say that this product was put prematurely into the market.

Update: I was able to install some applications out of the Android Market. Seems to me that to install the Apk has to be created using the latest Android SDK. I still investigating the issue.

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  • ctitanic
    We are going to have to wait some time before we see any fixes for the things I mentioned.
  • BRYAN B
    That's why I found your article of interest, it wasn't an un-boxing, it was a description of it's short falls. I don't really care how wonderful a product is, every new item falls short, It's up to us to make the product fill our needs, thats why I prefer to know what it can't do. Buying new gadgets is like doing an employment interview, I would rather know how someone fixes a screw up rather than than how they screwed up. There are always going to be mistakes, how you remedy them is more important.
  • ctitanic
    Bryan, I'm far from that boy waiting to open his Christmas presents and closer to someone who decided to write about things that previous reviewers did not due to multiple reasons.

    I did know from the beginning what I was going to find but I believe in the potential of Google and Android. My decision to get one was based in the future not in the present.
  • BRYAN B
    I see nothing wrong with your article, it is exactly what it says it is " Your first impressions", that leads me back to my first question. Did you read the fine print or is it something you just had to have.
    A good analogy could be, a young boy waiting to open his Christmas presents on Christmas day. Hoping for a "Red Ryder Bee-bee Gun", the elation of actually receiving one and the disappointment, when he realizes there are no Bee-Bee's
  • doogald
    So long as product sales expectations are correct, I do not think that it's premature at all. It is never to early to introduce a product that has basic functionality while you continue to perfect it. The first iPod did not work with Windows PCs or allow you to purchase songs or albums online (and did not for quite a while); the first Pocket PC phones were a lot less capable than this device. There is plenty of time to perfect the device.

    I really doubt that enough people will care about application kill bits to make a difference at all. If this platform fails in the marketplace at all, it will not be that issue that kills it.
  • ctitanic
    Well, my post was not the best for Google/T-Mobile/Android. I think that some people are just tired of WM. At least that's my case. I was hoping to see wm7 this year but even with that, look around. For what you pay for some of the WM Phone you can buy 2 notebooks!
  • BRYAN B
    Yet no comments have been made and more to the point no criticism made. Everybody just seems to want a new toy to play with.
  • ctitanic
    I don't like that too. The iPhone market has the same problem. And in some windows mobile phone are "application locked" and you can't install some applications unless they are signed by the phone service provider.
  • BRYAN B
    It's not the present I'm worried about, Apple hid the little switch and when people found out, they were pissed. They didn't remove the ability though, Now Goggle pulls the same fast one, but didn't quite hide the fact and there wasn't even a blip of an outcry.
    They obviously won't use the option now, or probably not even a year from now. Once the precedent has been set though, everyone will start doing it, perhaps three, four or maybe even five years down the road "THEY" won't want you to use such and such product and then we are done.
  • ctitanic
    Exactly, but it does not make sense, in the G1 is there an option to install application out of the market place.
  • BRYAN B
    In my opinion it's the whole point. What you should ask, is what is the point of having an open source device, that can only operate someone else's approved applications.
  • ctitanic
    I thought that that was a completely different issue.
  • To install apps that are not in the app store just browse to the vendors site and download the apk. After their downloaded you just click to open and it asks if you want to install, installs it and then you can run it. I install TunesRemote this way (an iTunes remote).

    Notice: You have to go to settings >> applications and enable apps from 3rd party to be installed. No limits though, as soon as we get a basic file browser you'll be able to transfer the apk to the memory card and just launch it that way.
  • BRYAN B
    Did you read the fine print or did you just have to have it.

    http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?...
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