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hey guys john r Ettinger with John four Lakers came here with a hardware overview for you of the t-mobile g1 I've been using this device incognito I suppose for the past three days t-mobile was nice enough to send me one to demo all the one they did send me was not brand new it still had the previous testers information on it but we'll go ahead and let that pass so here is the t-mobile g1 run on Google's Android operating system and operating of course on the t-mobile network with full 3d capabilities although the 3G bands are different than the bands AT&T uses in the US so if you are able to unlock the phone it won't work 3G at least with 18 keys Network so here's the front of the device you'll notice a flush touchscreen on the front which is capacitive meaning the touches are registered by electron transfer from your finger similar to the touchscreen on the iPhone it's not a resistive touch screen similar to most windows mobile touch phones which actually have a little bit of squishy feel and that's because the touches are registered by two layers of film pushing together so the t-mobile g1 is capacitive it's flush it's made of glass and it feels very solid in the hand the front of the device has four hardware buttons on the front you've got a send button got a home button you've got a back button and an end button and the middle you have a trackball which is actually identical to the trackball used in the Pearl on the curve and it's the rest of BlackBerry's that feature the trackball on the left side of the device you are greeted with a volume up and down rocker which you can use to control the ring volume as well and also the volume while you're in the call and while we're holding the device sideways here notice it's got a bit of an outward slope to the bottom chin of the device that's so when you're talking the microphone is actually a little bit closer to your face on the left side of device moving along we've got a dedicated camera button operating the camera on the back and I'll go over all the specs when I do it for review on it I just wanted to give you guys a sense of what the phone actually looks like on the back you've got your width at Google so the phone is very interesting in the fact that there's not an on-screen keyboard like most touchscreens are trying to nowadays this one relies on a full slide-out QWERTY key ah go ahead and show you and you notice that when it slides out it's not a straight slide up or down actually slopes out to the side and comes back in it's very neat actually see that again goes out and then back in the screen is very vibrant it color wise the resolution wise it felt as nice as the iPhone I know the resolution isn't quite as high but it does look it and it does have a very nice feel and the colors do pop on it go ahead and close that overall the phone does feel very solid in the hand it does have a little bit of heft to it a little bit of weight but nothing that makes it feel overbearing and too big in your pocket size-wise I'll give you guys a comparison to the trusty iPhone I'll pull this down so you guys can see here just least Hardware ones so here the two phones side-by-side turn them towards you one that's next to another we'll put the g1 on top of the iPhone you can see it's not quite as wide there's a little bit of room on the side and thickness wise the g1 is noticeably thicker than the iPhone they actually thickness I believe is due to the keyboard the width of the keyboard itself is actually about the added thickness as compared to the iPhone on the back of it you can see the sliding path that it takes and me my favs logo on the back I only get this device for another few days so I'm gonna use it for a little bit more and then conduct my review but overall my experience has been very positive with the phone I've enjoyed the operating system I've enjoyed the hardware of the phone but I'll get into all that when I do a more thorough review of it so guys this is John Rhett enger' demoing the t-mobile g1 should I check out the website at www.att.com/biz and if you guys like the site you want to contribute to it hit the apply button on the right hand side and we're always looking to add some new writers and to help you guys get some exposure guys John Rettendon I'll put the links all those things in the sidebar which should be probably there then you guys hope you enjoyed and I will talk to you soon buh-bye