Update: T Mobile G1 Phone
The T-Mobile G1 web site went up with a bunch of placeholders late last night, but it’s finally fully live after this morning’s big unveiling, and while it’s not exactly bursting with detailed info, there’s plenty of new pictures and details, including updated 3G coverage information.
With the T-Mobile event tomorrow, it is only appropriate that the carrier has now placed their coverage map online so users can see what areas have or will get 3G coverage.
We had a chance to speak with T-Mobile CTO Cole Brodman after the event today, and he had some illuminating and frankly refreshing takes on some of our more pressing questions.
Photos of the T-Mobile G1 Google phone have already appeared on the web.
T-Mobile sent out invitations for an event to announce the first Android based mobile phone on September 23rd.
That’s going to be sour news to heavy G1 users, especially as Android touts its stellar connectivity, world-class browser, and a full suite of data-gorging apps.
Amazon’s always looking for creative new ways to distribute digital media and in light of its recently-launched Video On Demand service and the decent head of steam AmazonMP3 has managed to build, it’d probably just love to shoehorn its way onto a high-profile mobile device right about now.
T-Mobile and Google unleashed, today at 10 am in New York City, the new HTC Android OS device or commonly called G1.
Here’s some initial observations: the browser is much choppier than the iPhone’s, there seem to be be two separate mail apps, one for Gmail and a separate IMAP app, and there seems to be no multitouch functionality.
This model is called Holic or just Samsung T459.
The only hope left lies in the Android software, but the first generation might be underwhelming, see the video below showing the Android user interface.
Google just posted a few videos showing all the Google applications loaded on the T-Mobile G1.
Well, technically you can get more than that, but our friends in magenta are reserving the right to throttle you back to a stifling 50Kbps virtually useless by smartphone standards, and less than what even a good EDGE network is capable of providing.
Our impression was that as long as their use was relegated to a small percentage of owners, T-Mobile likely wouldn’t take action, though he did voice concerns over tethering apps and their effect on the network, with a clearly guarded eye to letting users have free reign.
Google just demonstrated the Android phone in the UK at the Google Developer day in London.
It has already been announced that T-Mobile would be creating their own App Store, much like Apple’s App Store.
Many cities show they have 3G coverage already, like Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Bay Area, Austin, Chicago and more.
While that’s not a first, it could be a major differentiating feature for Android phones here on out, since it sounds like the app is advanced and partially web-based: it has the threading, search, and Google Talk presence features of the web client.
August 19th marked the beginning of our 100 days Holiday Gift Guide 2008 countdown until the Thanksgiving Sales 2008 start.
With under a week to go before the HTC Dream is officially unveiled in the Big Apple, the Wall Street Journal has given us something juicy to gnaw on for the time being: a price.
