T-Mobile G1, First Android phone released today!
First of all, this is HTC Dream, with Android OS. This won’t be the only manufacturer who will provide phones with Android, I’d like to see Nokia, but they have plans on buying PalmOS and making it Open Source, which will make Android their competitor. Well enough chit-chat, lets see what’s inside this thingy.
In stores October 22nd, with a price tag of $179, I think they wanted to make it $199, but you know we already have a phone with this price that is even hippier than this one, so they made a little cut :)
The features of the software, muti-touch screen, Application Market, and other stuff, gives me the right to call it iPhone competitor, and other phones that are. So I will compare it with it.
Smaller screen of 3,17″ but bigger resolution 480×320. Screen runs in HVGA.
Battery life supports 5 hours of talk time and 130 hours of standby, well they all say the best results, but it’s just like iPhones. Camera is 3.1 MP, camera software looks better also.
Has Wi-Fi, GPS, EDGE. (No evidence of 3G to me, sorry)
Android is Google masterpiece, so it has everything Google is about. Maps software is very good, and unique, StreetView with compass feature, very impressive and interesting! Oh and YouTube.
“Great” music player, Mp3 purchases and downloads over Amazon’s MP3 store.
And it has full QWERTY keyboard. The screen slides to the side.
Well It may not be most beautiful phone out there, but it’s certainly very good, and in many points innovative device.
First News About Android On This Blog
Eventually I was making this blog to post news about Windows Mobile phones, iPhone and Android news. But as long as Android hasn’t much to shine right now, this is the post about android here. And it’s a good news! There will be a store, where Android users will be able to get their applications, and developers sell their stuff. Just like upcoming iPhone App Store. This is pretty amazing, i guess after success of both of them, microsoft will lauch their app store for Windows Mobile users. Here is the quote by Andy Rubin, project leader:
“It would be a great benefit to the Android community to provide a place where people can go to safely and securely download content and where a billing system would allow developers to get paid for their effort…We wouldn’t have done our job if we didn’t provide something that helps developers get distribution.”
This is pretty good, because developers are not limited with as much as iPhone app developers are. While Android is not avaliable in the market, we are looking forward to touch it and visit the App Store for Android users.