For a moment there I thought it was the G1. Then I realized it's really the G2 in pre-release beta garb. Go Android!

Show me someone that says the G1 is a good looking phone and I'll show you a person in denial, or a lying liar! I think the G1 community should come to terms with this denial, accept that they and everyone else in the world know this phone is fugly/toy like and tell it like it is. They bought this thing because they wanted something different...a "change" to parrot a phrase beaten into our skulls for the past 20 months. They bought it for a different OS and a chance to stick it to MS and Apple. Good on 'em...nothing wrong with going a different path. Please though, no more about how it's not a horrible looking phone, 'cause the verdict is in...and it is.

Why, oh why would anyone make the G1, which already looks like a Mattel or Fisher Price nightmare, look even more like a toy?

Yeah...damn those Vizios! I had one once, and I always thought something wasn't quite right about it. It wasn't the PQ exactly, or the audio for that matter...it looked great in the store and everyone I chatted with about it said nice things. Nope, it was its attitude. I know, sounds funny...a TV with an attitude, but I swear mine had one! It went like this...I bought mine at a place that rhymes with Dostco...don't want to name drop the retailer. Anyway, there I was, nice new Vizio in the box strapped to the side of my freshly rented U-Haul van ($29.00 + mileage cause people told me if I transported it laying down it would cause a black hole, destroy the space-time continuum or something to that degree). I was happy, it was happy, and we rolled home together...virtually hand-in-hand. At home I hauled it in, unboxed it, set it up and turned it on...and that's when it started. The constant attitude...you know the type...sort of like that cheer leader chick you met in high school that won't give you the time of day but you still followed her around, wrote about her on your badly vandalized O-Pechee folder and dreamt of the day you'd score a kiss. Man, my O-Pechee folder was so…vandalized. Anyway, I digress...the attitude was hard core. I'd ask to turn to channel "whatever" and it'd be all like, no way...I'm chillin on some HD channel that plays endless loops of scenery, pretty flowers, babbling brooks, rocks, bugs, clouds, etc. I think it really got down with nature programming. Could be a result of the rental U-Haul van ride home I guess, nevertheless, we had begun a relationship that would most be certainly plagued by a degree of....mechanical flexibility. So, our time together marched on...the seasons changed, good times w/the bad. Still, attitude remained until one fateful day. I remember it as if it is happening right now...so clear in my mind I'd swear it was in 1080p even though the Vizio set itself was only 720p. Something clicked between us...I knew it, felt it, tasted it....love or acceptance was blooming. I let the Vizio's 720p radiance wash over me like a silk sheet, totally surrendering myself to its whim. I was frozen, excited, and ready to accept it's mastery of my body and soul. I finally realized...I didn't own it like I originally thought...merely paid it's evil masters to release it from bondage. I finally understood...here it was, a thing of beauty, forcefully built to exact specifications, packaged and imprisoned into a small box, thrown onto a truck with others piled on top of it until it arrived at its purgatory, sitting on a shelf...waiting. Although I thought I had chosen it, in reality, it chose me. Once I learned to accept that, we never had problems again until...I sold it to my realtor friend. I couldn't stand the irony any longer. I was living in a 1080p world, yet had surrendered myself to a 720p set that did not respect me. Now I have a new raison d’etra, but that's a story for another day...

Well, I was sorta interested in what Android could/would do, but as I suspected from the get go, the hardware doesn't cut it. Besides the fact that it looks childish, it is in no way a departure from the usual TMO phone reference design (sidekick). Sigh...as others have noted, another victory for iPhone.

Well, from what I've seen, other than the OS coming w/it, it looks much like TMO isn't straying too far from home on this one. You'd think they would design something different, or "out of the box", but they didn't...just used the same sidekick design and tossed in a few extras and a new OS. Sorry, but I don't see too many people leaving other carriers for TMO over this re-hash.

Tilt me baby!

I would like one because I'm broke and simply can't afford one right now.