October 21, 2008
Looks like its game on. The T-Mobile G1 powered by Google’s open source Linux based operating system, Android, has already seen huge interest from the pundits and consumers alike. There have been recording pre-ordering for the G1 and it appears that the G1 will give the iPhone 3G quite good competition.
Personally I feel the biggest disadvantage that the G1 has is in the looks department. The design and looks of the G1 are nothing compared to the iPhone 3G. HTC just does not know how to make good looking phones. For them its all about using cheap plastic and tacky design philosophies.
Anyway. In a recent speed test done by CNET the T-Mobile G1 beat the pants of the Apple iPhone 3G with regards to web browsing. Click here to see the speed test video.
I am not sure how accurate this test is because web browsing performance depends on the network a lot. So even though the testers might have tried to neutralise the “network effect” I am not sure to what extent they were successful.
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1. celz | October 22, 2008 at 7:23 am
Um about the design comment.. you might want to do a lil research before you say htc doesnt know what its doing… The G1 is one of the oldest smartphones on the market. The Hardware design is actually older than the htc 6800 which was replaced months ago by the htc Touch Pro.. To go back to the time when the G1 was first designed you would go back to the htc 6700 device which hasnt been sold in years. Maybe because the G1 was the first Android to come they focused more on software kept the old hardware to barely squeeze an 08 release. If you look at Htc phones like diamond or the touch hd you would see they can hold their own with anyone. And they also made the highly stylish Sony X1 and the Palm 850.. So I doubt Htc had anything to do with the G1 lookin so old, it just is old. They make what they are asked to. Sony asked for a beautiful phone Android asked for an old one… Rumor has it the Touch HD will be coming soon. And that is with out a doubt the most powerful touch screen smart phone in exsistence.