It's official: T-Mobile unveiling first Android handset next Tuesday
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Sep 16th 2008 2:42PM
posted Sep 16th 2008 2:42PM
posted Sep 16th 2008 2:42PM
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I can't decide which is uglier, the G1 phone or the leopard print blanket it's resting on.
Its the leopard print. Looks better than the Wizard that people got Android to run on, I had that thing for a while, and its just a brick. Thank you T-Mobile for finally doing something else good, but where's my 3G?
Have you ever tried to look at yourself on a bleedin' mirror?
Have you ever tried to look at yourself on a bleedin' mirror?
Yeah its mos def ugly
makes sense that T-mobile gets it
Why does it make sense that T-Mob would get it?
b/c it looks like a little kid toy (sidekick)
:[ I like it.
I actually really like the design and cant wait to pre-order!
I'm also with T-Mobile and will be using my upgrade to buy it then sell it on Ebay to some unlucky soul who's willing to pay out the nose for it. Shame it looks like Fisher-Price assembly. At least the iPhone 3g's defects were mostly concealed before release. This phone's main defect is the strange, oddball design which can't be concealed...
I love T-Mobile. I really do. I was with them when they first released the first Pocket PC Phone in the US. However, I don't care whether beauty is in the eyes of the beholder but this phone is ridiculously ugly. I really hope its a different device at the unveiling. Sheeesh.
I Think it looks just Fine and Excited even if this WAS the final design, which I do not think this really is the Final Design.
And if it turns out that it IS different than this, it'll Look nice also I"m sure. But like I said, I'll be happy with this design too if it does turn out to be final.
Screw the Haters.
I'm excited to see this come out. It's about time TMO got some game. The device looks a little strange, but it looks like it has a 3" screen which is definitely better than the 2.8" found on most of the HTC devices.
Also, the keyboard looks well thought out. The keys look like they're spaced correctly. The numbers are separate, and the period and comma are base keys. I would much prefer black or silver over the fisher-price white. I just hope they had the smarts to put the 1700, 1900, and 2100 3G radios in so that this phone can work on all the 3G networks in the U.S. and abroad.
I'm looking forward to Android... I'm using a Motorola phone currently, and the software is TERRIBLE. Here's hoping this open source junk works out.
Anything works better than software on a Motorola phone.
I think it's got pretty clean lines and looks good. Call it that simple/silly Google style, admittedly a little toylike. I wonder if it's heavy. It looks like it wants to be a little bit heavy. I guess this is basically what I wanted the iPhone to have originally - a hardware qwerty slider, but now I'm trying to picture one-hand use with it slid out. Maybe I won't need to that much.
When I first jumped to T-Mobile, I picked up a Nokia 3650. Slightly cheesy phone, but a very nice powerful OS, and T-Mob was the perfect carrier with very low-cost GPRS data, reliable voice, and good customer service.
2 years later, the Nokia died just as the Dash came out. HTC was way ahead of Nokia on handset quality, but the MS OS was a big step back from Symbian. T-Mobile's EDGE network wasn't fast, but continued to be dirt cheap.
2 years later, and I'm pretty sick of Windows Mobile. The idea of re-upping another two years and having an HTC handset (hopefully the release Dream is a little cleaned up from the reference model) running a strong, well-thought-out (even if v1.0) OS, while maintaining the quality of T-mobile's network with 3G on the near horizon? Pretty sweet...
I'm sure it won't be the perfect rollout - but I'm way more willing to go this route with a carrier and supplier I know and trust, rather than abandon ship on all accounts and get an iPhone.
Does anyone know if this is a touch screen? Also, how many mega pixels on the camera?
My contract with Tmobile runs out in October, just in time for this release. I'm trying to decide if I should abandon the Blackberry ship.
Silly fanboys, I've had two phones I loved. Treo 650 and Sierra Wireless Voq a11. They were both ugly as a bag of potatoes, but they were great and practical. Give the thing a chance people, plus, LOOK AT THE SPECS! Sheezus, anybody who actually pays attention to this industry would be quite happy.