Posted by ketyung
on Sep/24/2008
at 7:52 pm
The long-anticipated HTC G1, aka Dream, a Google Android-powered smartphone is finally released on the T-Mobile.
On this first Android-powered smartphone, you will find a a 3.2-inch 65k colour HVGA screen that boasts a resolution of 480X320 with touchscreen capability, QWERTY keyboard, quad-band GSM/EDGE and dual-band UMTS support. GPS, Wi-Fi and built-in accelerometer, 1.3 megapixel camera are also found on this phone.
The little disappointment is the phone’s camera is not capable of capturing video. And the Bluetooth is only on mono headsets which has no stereo support and also no file transfers. Furthermore, you won’t find any 3.5 mm headphone jack on the G1, so you can’t make use of normal headphones for listening to music.
Since G1 is powered by Android OS it’s well designed to use it along with various online Google Applications, including Gmail (with push support), YouTube, Google Talk, Google Maps with Street View. You will also be able to hook up on AmazonMP3 marketplace for getting some DRM free tracks. And later on the Google’s own Android marketplace which would supply the handset with various third-party applications.
The G1 has a unique feature which is an embedded compass that syncs with Maps StreetView which allows live 360-degree cityscape browsing by just turning the handset around. Apparently, the T-Mobile G1 is made everything tied to the Google services. As you have no options to use other email services on this phone such as MS Exchange, and no syncing tool at all for other services. So, you can only hook up to Google apps such as GMail, Google Calendar etc.
The G1 is SIM-locked, which isn’t usable with a prepaid card. Hackers will surely start craking their ways to unlock this phone for the use with other cellular operators. Not sure, if one of those SIM unlock solutions that we’ve told you before is able to unlock the T-Mobile G1. If you have one, you probably could have a try. But once it gets unlocked, the warranty of this phone shall be void!
via [gadgetlite]
Google Android,T-Mobile G1,HTC G1
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