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hey guys john r Ettinger with John four Lakers khamir with a review of my demo units t-mobile g1 powered by Google's Android operating system amazing the phone for about three days now and I'll get into my experiences in a minute t-mobile sent me the device to review although I'm definitely not the first one to review this device has already had a lot of user information already in it including phone numbers backgrounds all kinds of stuff overall I've been very happy with the phone I have to send it back to t-mobile in a few days and I'm a little bit disappointed I have enjoyed using it call quality first off is dependent on where you are with t-mobile's network where I am in Southern California the network is very strong so I found reception to be very adequate user on the other end reported no interference no tinny noise so call quality was definitely an overall 5 stars build quality is certainly very nice the phone is solid it's got a decent amount of heft certainly weighs more than an iPhone for example but it's not too heavy and it sits nice in your hand as you guys saw my hardware overview it does have a little bit of a curve right there so when you're talking actually the caller on the other end did say it was seemed quite loud volume on the handsets end is quite loud as well I particularly enjoyed it found it no different than any other phone which is nice t-mobile's 3g service is a little bit spotty but when I did have access to it it wasn't bad it was nice and quick and I'd say about on par with a tMT's 3g service even though t-mobile currently is only supporting UMTS not the full HSDPA which is just technical talk for faster um she has this a little bit slower HSDPA is a little bit quicker both are technically third generation or 3G networks so let me go ahead and give you guys some impressions of the phone the browser I found to be a very nice alternative to the Mobile Safari it's not as good it's not as eloquent it's not as fluid but it is nice I want to start off this hardware review I'm sorry this phone review by give you guys a demonstration of the operating system and particularly the browser itself so I'm gonna go ahead and move this down here I'm gonna show you guys just a browser right now so here's the phone hit the end button and you hit the menu button to a market it's no SIM card in there right now and here we are here is the phone so I'm gonna go ahead and open up John for Lakers comm and I'm gonna compare it actually with the iPhone so you guys can see the speed difference on each and the memory has been cleared on both of these give me one moment here go to browser menu go to URL the type you have to actually there is not an accelerometer in the device you have to actually open it up to type I'm going to type in John for Lakers comm her head delete what was there before alright www.shawnacoronado.com thing on the iPhone here get my bookmarks okay so I will hit the John for Lakers on my bookmarks and I'll hit the okay but at the same time area we'll see what happens and this is both over Wi-Fi the same Wi-Fi network so there shouldn't be any difference in speed alright and let's see and we're off on both of them alright looks like they're both the same point little status bar right there it actually looks like the g1 is done whereas the iPhone is still loading the web page and it's done so just a few seconds difference here you can see on the iPhone I'm sure you're familiar with mobile if you're familiar with Mobile Safari you actually have the full page already rendered and already scaled here at John four leggers calm however on the g1 you do a decent amount of scrolling to see everything especially when the phone is arranged like this when you slide the keyboard out though you go to portrait mode you get a little more screen real estate and you can't pan around with your finger and this panning is very fluid and you can't double tap what you can do is zoom just like normal she tries a reloading the page here let that finish up again you tap the screen you get a plus and minus right there and you can zoom out is it mad a little further he's been just a little bit further yet keep going and there we go now you've got the full page although the text is a little bit unreadable the scrolling is very fluid it's actually the most fluid I've seen on a non Apple iPhone so I'll show you guys again very nice and fluid so I did a walk through the emulator of the hardware and the software the device so nothing revolutionary here you haven't seen but I will relay that this touch screen does feel very nice flick up go see rest your programs and go back down go to the left or right and do a google search you can keep going in at more programs anywhere you want and you can move icons on the screen any way you choose which is very nice so on I think everybody's talking about is the Android Marketplace I'm gonna go ahead and show that to you guys right now let me go ahead and open that up here alright there it is market see a little alien icon go ahead open it up and it looks very similar to Apple's App Store I'm using the iPhone a lot as a reference point because that's the device a lot of people are familiar with so you can scroll across and see some of the most popular apps search by applications it breaks it down by topic these are all free right now entertainment finance lifestyle multimedia and go back go to games not many games available but there are enough right now and more should become available shortly pac-man solitaire kind of scroll through these are all nice free games and they all work very well with the phone the operating system we could search it by by popularity or just by DS so that's one of things everybody's talking about with the phone let go back to the home screen open this device up again and then the other things everybody's talking about is Amazon mp3 and this is similar to mobile iTunes or any other downloadable service lets you download mp3 files wirelessly in this particular way DRM free from the Amazon mp3 store go back to home screen and I'll move the camera back up so I can see you guys I have to say I have been very happy with the phone build quality like I said does feel nice there's a little bit of a creaking though on the device and that's from the difference between a keyboard and the bottom of the phone you can see there's a limit of a gap right there you actually see through it so there's a bit of a creaking but the sliding mechanism does feel very solid it does not feel like flimsy really feels and has a nice heft to it and really typing is very good the keyboard I found to be very usable it's a five row keyboard there is a little bit of a hump here and people were worried that it might be hard to type over it I'm happy to report that it's not an issue at all actually feels more comfortable your hand actually rests on that hump so a couple other things to note about the device before doing on it go ahead and scroll this down and you get a full list of your new messages emails tech messages everything shows up right there you can scroll it right back up that's kind of neat you get alerts at the top that show you what it is that popped up and it gets showed before you can scroll left or right and right up gives you a full list of icons and all that stuff can be rearranged scrolling on it is very fluid you can scroll through your contacts you can we scroll through anything very similar again to the iPhone so guys I don't want to keep this too long so I'm gonna get cut off but I do want to tell you that I am very happy with the g1 and considering it's a really a first generation product the first time Android has been launched yeah I think they did a nice job and they waited long enough to bring it to market so I had a complete product and it's only gonna get better it is over-the-air from where upgradable so I love bugs people find they will be fixed and will be upgraded and new features will be cubby coming I think that Google was smart to rely on a manufacturer like HTC to build a device someone with a proven reputation for hardware manufacturing so guys overall at five stars I'm gonna have to give the t-mobile g1 a nice four and a half stars if you're with t-mobile it really is the only phones yet if you want a smartphone with 3G capability science that t-mobile finally has a killer phone keep up with the rest of the carriers hi guys John rent injure John for Lakers calm okay very quick an apology apologetically little rushed review of the t-mobile g1 they don't give me the phone for very long so I had to give you my impressions right quick again be sure to check out the website John for Lakers comm follow me on Twitter ww twitter.com slash John for Lakers John Ratner and hope you guys enjoyed bye