We just got a look at the myTouch 3G, and while it's great to see T-Mobile's next Android phone all official and everything, there are certainly few surprises for those of us already familiar with the
HTC Magic /
Google Ion. We found ourselves, despite the best knowledge otherwise, still looking fruitlessly for a 3.5mm headphone jack -- it was silly that the G1 didn't ship with it, but this year it's downright shameful. At least the included adapter is nice. Please,
HTC Hero, come and save us from this madness. Fresh off
our play time with the Hero, we found the stock Android 1.5 keyboard to be quite a bit of a step back. It's certainly usable, but we found ourselves missing the spacebar quite a lot, and the responsiveness just wasn't at HTC's level, though prediction was pretty good. The included zippered case is nice, though we don't know what we'd use it for, and the unboxing experience is generally pleasant and uneventful. In a lot of ways, the phone seems like a last generation product, but it's obviously the only one of its kind available in the States at the moment, so we suppose T-Mobile would beg to differ. Every single cover we've seen so far looks completely horrible, and while it's nice to have "options," we'd think twice before putting a pic of our dog on the back of one of these. Perhaps the best news making the rounds is that T-Mobile is thinking about putting a Visual Voicemail app in the forthcoming app pack, though it wasn't pre-loaded on any of the handset we checked out, and apparently the app pack is more of a curated Market than a single app combo download. Peep an enthralling video of the hardware after the break.
posted Jul 8th 2009 12:36PM
this guy didnt really have anything nice to say about the phone. Funny he was holding an iphone at the time.
This phone would appeal to a high school / young college crowd, even though that's probably not who t-mob is marketing it for..
I'm 30 and so is my hubby. We both are getting these.
There is definitely an appeal to this device for adults like us.
The guy doing the review is likely like my brother.... total Apple iPhone fanboy and refuses to give credit where credit is due. ;-)
Oh well to each his/her own right?
I'm waiting for the i7500 myself :)
didn't find out much about the phone..............waste of time.
That was it? I smell iPhone fanboy! I'm sure he has the same problems while typing on the iPhone as well with those sausages for fingers. The mytouch will do well. I'm excited for a new touch screen only phone to give Apple some competition.
I just ordered one on Vodafone, in the UK. I had a play about with one in the Vodafone shop, and it really is an awesome handset.
I would have gone for the Hero, but its not available on Vodafone officially, and the 3rd party vendors who are selling it on Vodafone, are charging an arm and a leg to upgrade.
Having had a play about with the HTC Magic (myTouch 3G) and the HTC Hero, they are almost the same handsets, internally at least. The 3.5mm jack, the 5mp camera, and Sense UI on the Hero, wasn't enough to make me switch networks or phone number.
Also, every reviewer seems to have fallen in to the trap of comparing every new handset that comes on the market, to the iPhone. What is wrong with reviewing each new handset on its own merits, rather than looking for the fabled iPhone killer?