duopoly
10-29-2008, 12:25 PM
What I think of the G1.
I've been a T-mobile customer for 7 years. I traded my four-year-old Samsung d415 slider for the G1. I use 20 percent of the G1's potential. I haven't loaded any apps and everyday I read or discover something new and surprising about the phone. I joined this form because it is Android based not T-mobile G1 based. Meaning the people populating this board are knowledgable in the operating system that is on the G1 not just owners of the phone. I've read alot of praise concerning this phone and condemnation about what did or didn't come with/on the phone. So I want to jot down some thoughts.
I think this phone is great. I have a lot of friends with iPhones that put down the G1. I'm not trying to build a space program from my phone. I want to receive and place calls, look up information and get directions and use a scheduler for clients and have a full resource contact list. I may not wring out the awesome power of the G1 but I do have something that only a few have--I think. Again, I'm not the sharpest pencil in the Technology Cup. I have the pleasure of owning a phone that is open and expandible. My phone isn't cemented in a proprietary closed system. I'm happy that my phone is that different. This freedom means my phone will change faster then other phones. These changes, created not just for the benefit of a company, but the people and the device itself.
I might be talking out the side of my neck and not fully understand the dynamics of an Android-based phone and how much it differs from the phone systems available today. Hasn't this phone broken a mold or two? Am I missing the point of what this phone means for the future of cell phones? There are things I wish my phone had out-of-the-box but you can't please everyone. So, I'll sit back, relax, read and wait. I think this phone has tremendous cool factor because of the Android system. The apps will come. Just think what is going to be available next summer that makes this phone even more bad-assed.
I think this phone is a first and the future generations will grow from what the developers develop, from what suggestions are suggested and maybe just take us down a totally different road of what personal communication looks like.
Fire away.
I've been a T-mobile customer for 7 years. I traded my four-year-old Samsung d415 slider for the G1. I use 20 percent of the G1's potential. I haven't loaded any apps and everyday I read or discover something new and surprising about the phone. I joined this form because it is Android based not T-mobile G1 based. Meaning the people populating this board are knowledgable in the operating system that is on the G1 not just owners of the phone. I've read alot of praise concerning this phone and condemnation about what did or didn't come with/on the phone. So I want to jot down some thoughts.
I think this phone is great. I have a lot of friends with iPhones that put down the G1. I'm not trying to build a space program from my phone. I want to receive and place calls, look up information and get directions and use a scheduler for clients and have a full resource contact list. I may not wring out the awesome power of the G1 but I do have something that only a few have--I think. Again, I'm not the sharpest pencil in the Technology Cup. I have the pleasure of owning a phone that is open and expandible. My phone isn't cemented in a proprietary closed system. I'm happy that my phone is that different. This freedom means my phone will change faster then other phones. These changes, created not just for the benefit of a company, but the people and the device itself.
I might be talking out the side of my neck and not fully understand the dynamics of an Android-based phone and how much it differs from the phone systems available today. Hasn't this phone broken a mold or two? Am I missing the point of what this phone means for the future of cell phones? There are things I wish my phone had out-of-the-box but you can't please everyone. So, I'll sit back, relax, read and wait. I think this phone has tremendous cool factor because of the Android system. The apps will come. Just think what is going to be available next summer that makes this phone even more bad-assed.
I think this phone is a first and the future generations will grow from what the developers develop, from what suggestions are suggested and maybe just take us down a totally different road of what personal communication looks like.
Fire away.