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Good review of T-Mobile G1

4 points by nickb 18y ago

TomOfTTB 18y ago
I think the author works a little too hard to be fair to the G1 but it's a decent review. The G1's only hope right now is to get enough early adopters to sustain it until developers rush to it and make it as good if not better than the iPhone. That might not happen but that's what Google is hoping for. That's basically what he says in the review. Lots of potential but very rough around the edges. That said, he doesn't mention what I think is the most relevant point which is the Palm Pre being on the horizon. Anyone looking for an alternative to the iPhone would be foolish to buy a G1 before the Pre reviews start coming in
endlessvoid94 18y ago
I didn't like this review. He compared it at every step to the iPhone. It isn't the iPhone. It isn't trying to be the iPhone. I'd even venture to say that the target market isn't the same as the iPhone's. It's built upon choice; you can choose to do things different ways. You can't do this with the iPhone. It doesn't assume the user is a moron.
- gaius 18y ago
  True, but let me tell you a story. I walked into the T-mobile store a few weeks ago to get a G1 and the salesman told me not to, that it was a bad phone. Now he didn't know that I have been a T-mobile customer forever (since they were called Mercury and only had 2 handsets and 2 tariffs) and pretty much any phone I want would be "free" now[1] - he'd rather have not made the sale at all. That tells me everything I need to know about the G1. [1] Unless they have some weird technology to detect my SIM when I walk in the door...
  - herval 18y ago
    The salesman was probably calling you 'a moron'... :-)
    - gaius 18y ago
      Well, fair play - if "a moron" means someone who wants their phone to make and receive calls and not have to spend the whole time fiddling with it to make it work... Runs Linux you say? :-P
- herval 18y ago
  Not sure how you connect being able (or rather forced to) 'choose to do things different ways' to being a moron...

4 points by nickb 18y ago

I think the author works a little too hard to be fair to the G1 but it's a decent review. The G1's only hope right now is to get enough early adopters to sustain it until developers rush to it and make it as good if not better than the iPhone. That might not happen but that's what Google is hoping for. That's basically what he says in the review. Lots of potential but very rough around the edges. That said, he doesn't mention what I think is the most relevant point which is the Palm Pre being on the horizon. Anyone looking for an alternative to the iPhone would be foolish to buy a G1 before the Pre reviews start coming in

endlessvoid94 18y ago

I didn't like this review. He compared it at every step to the iPhone. It isn't the iPhone. It isn't trying to be the iPhone. I'd even venture to say that the target market isn't the same as the iPhone's. It's built upon choice; you can choose to do things different ways. You can't do this with the iPhone. It doesn't assume the user is a moron.

gaius 18y ago
True, but let me tell you a story. I walked into the T-mobile store a few weeks ago to get a G1 and the salesman told me not to, that it was a bad phone. Now he didn't know that I have been a T-mobile customer forever (since they were called Mercury and only had 2 handsets and 2 tariffs) and pretty much any phone I want would be "free" now[1] - he'd rather have not made the sale at all. That tells me everything I need to know about the G1. [1] Unless they have some weird technology to detect my SIM when I walk in the door...
- herval 18y ago
  The salesman was probably calling you 'a moron'... :-)
  - gaius 18y ago
    Well, fair play - if "a moron" means someone who wants their phone to make and receive calls and not have to spend the whole time fiddling with it to make it work... Runs Linux you say? :-P
herval 18y ago
Not sure how you connect being able (or rather forced to) 'choose to do things different ways' to being a moron...