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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 t

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...