Fellows in the United States have already get their hands on the T-Mobile G1 or also known as HTC Dream. Somehow, I can’t find HTC Dream on HTC’s website instead G1 is what I got. Selling for $199 (with subscribtion plan) which I’ll say not expensive and the data plan from T-mobile is seems to be more worthful than the iPhone 3G plan from AT&T.
What’s so great about this phone is it runs on Android, the open-source OS by Google. Focusing on apps on the mobile, especially web apps. I am a person that adore the Internet a lot and G1 is a must for me. Unfortunately, it’s not available in Asia.
It’s an iPhone rival. People do actually queue up long for the G1 and there’s a launch party for the G1 too.
The nice part of the phone is it’s side sliding QWERTY keypad and the touchscreen. I like QWERTY and I like touchscreen too. QWERTY is very good for texting and sending emails and touchscreen is for navigating web page and perhaps almost everything.
There’s a iPhone Apps Store like software in G1 and that is the Android Marketplace where you can find a lot of software and application to be installed on the phone. Mobile applications are the popular one right now, the fame of iPhone is because of Apps (besides it’s design and Steve Jobs). In Marketplace, there’s paid and free application.
Camera (3.2Megapixels) is available on the back but the front facing camera is lacking which made the G1 not perfect. I believe not much people uses 3G video call and that’s why no camera for video calls.
“The wait is over.” is what T-mobile is trying to tell everyone. It’s up in store in the States, you can get one now. Europes will get theirs by next week.
Will G1 hits Asia or perhaps other continent like Australia or Africa where there’s no T-Mobile?
