Volume Buttons / GUI

[embrace LB]

Are there no easy volume button keys on the side of the phone? Or a button to make it go straight to vibrate? Why does the interface look so 2D and not appealing. I feel like the phones so rudimentary when it comes to the actual display of colors, GUI, etc. Is there an app to change it? Everything looks so plain.

[Stanovoy]

There are volume buttons located on the side. Holding the - button would put the phone into vibrate mode. The GUI is plain. But if you do a search on G1 themes, you will find plenty of companies making really slick aftermarket GUIs for the G1.

[richard]

Everything looks so plain.

Not trying to sound snarky, but what do you expect? It's a Google-branded device, running Google apps on a Google-developed OS.

[CodyD]

this phone is everything the iphone needs to be. Yea it might look plain but it can be moded without beinv hacked into. There will be tons of different looks a little after its released

[dayday031420]

i disagree ...plain? no.. the iphone looks plain, it only has 1 button thats plain!

[defaultuser]

agreed, its time to go a step beyond just icons on a screen to a phone that has an actual OS with real functionality, and cut and paste, and a desktop.

[punkzanyj]

Not trying to sound snarky, but what do you expect? It's a Google-branded device, running Google apps on a Google-developed OS.

One man's "plain" is another man's "spartan". Have you played with the emulator? It's rather slick, even though its simplistic.

[*susan*]

I played around with the emulator for the first time last night. It only made me more excited for my phone to get here. It is simply amazing!

[MJakeX11]

man as long as it does its job idc plus u can change it when u get it

[richard]

One man's "plain" is another man's "spartan".

Google made an empire out of having a search portal that had nothing on it but a textbox, a button and a logo. Simple yet powerful, thats why we "google" stuff today instead of "lycos" stuff.