Gadgetory

this is adam lane with pocketnow.com and we're going to look at a hardware tour of the t-mobile g1 also known as the google android phone so here it is and at the top is our speaker there's a little LED light in there at the bottom we have some buttons you see that so the menu it's a little trackball here house button a green phone button back arrow button and a red phone button that also ask as power button so you'll let down to turn it on now these buttons are very flesh so it's hard to feel them in dark you can feel them but they're hard to find now over here is little rubber flap and that covers up the extended USB port it's the same as all the other HTC devices which is great because you can use the adapters for audio little flap is kind of annoying there's a microphone hole over here is volume buttons up and down the top is nothing around the back or the other side there's a camera button it does have a half press for focus on a full press for photo capture fact we see is speaker grill and a camera lens that can be used as a mirror you can see that there's our camera now we also have a sliding keyboard you see the screen kind of goes up and then over a little hump you see there's an attachment here that goes through this arc as well as these little change there now you hear that is quite loud which is pretty annoying and then we have our keyboard in focus anyway that is pretty smooth too a little hard to feel there is a slight ridge on the F and J q so you can find those so slight differentiation so you can feel those with your thumbs very small space bar we have a menu button over here which is good brings up the menu on the screen yeah and your own row of number teeth backlight as well now the other thing is where is the microSD card turns out this little piece of plastic right there it's very hard to notice that if you fingernail in there possibly there it is one gig comes with the device and what about the battery and so you gotta put your fingernail under there this is it a flimsy little back in there and here's our battery has HTC innovation on it there it is and this is where your SIM card goes that comes out like that and difficult so well so that's g1 now let's compare it to some other spices here is the Titan to see it's a lot longer only a little bit thinner much I'll that's the same way okay and here's the trio and W trio is shorter still very small bit finem in the trio if you don't count the banana lip trios a lot lighter and then the diamond see the diamond is a lot smaller much much thinner so that's it for the hardware tour