Qigi offers a slick smartphone that runs either Android or Windows Mobile 6.1

[johnkzin]

The battery life on the G1 has left me being very comfortable with "EDGE data only", so the fact that this one doesn't sound like a real problem to me. Especially not when it has wifi (for app downloads, I can wait until I get to home, work, or a hotspot).

But the lack of a QWERTY keyboard IS a problem for me. I'm also curious in that it's chinese, but you didn't mention dual SIM cards... that seems to be a staple of chinese phones ;-)

Here's what I want in order to buy this phone:

1) QWERTY keyboard that is at least as good as the G1's (best qwerty phone I've used)

2) Outstanding battery life, much better than the G1's

3) charge/data via USB, audio via separate 3.5mm headset

4) if they offer a 3G version, with AT&T 3G, then I'd want a dual SIM card option as well (voice+messaging on T-Mobile, data on AT&T :-) ).

5) They probably can't solve this one, but it'd be nice to see the tethering issue finally resolved; if they could have any input into that, that'd be great.