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Yeah, but it's got no headphone jack. WTF???

yeah, but it has bluetooth... whos using headphones anymore?

I agree. Once you use wirless Bluetooth headsets, you will never go back to headphones.

Most Bluetooth headphones have terrible sound quality.

What!! You need someone to control the distribution. Open source means nothing to me, google controls that and if google doesn't control it then it will become as fragmented as the current linux scene! Anyone can write applications on all the other OS like windows mobile, symbian, apple. What's disturbing with apple is that once you get sucked into their system, then they will extract as much money as they can from you, you are powerless. Thank you, will stay with Windows mobile, get all my applications for free or write something myself very easy.

Who says the linux scene is fragmented at all...

You just identified yourself as an extremly uninformed person. Open source is the way of the future and the way everything is moving. If a company can't adapt to that they are dead.

Open source is the way of the future and the way everything is moving I have been hearing this for 10 years now [I was once a big fan of Linux.] This is not going to happen.

http://store.androidcommunity.com/

From personal experience using this phone, the pros outway the cons by a long shot. Once it is released, people will come out with all sorts of neat and innovative features for this phone. The open sourse android software is going to revelutionize how we all use our phones. The G1 is so unique it will blow the Iphone out of the water.

hmm I doubt it, this phone does not seem to be anything grand, it has 3 megapixel camera but cant take video's also there has been reports of the youtube app being overly pixelated. This device doesnt really seem to go head to head with RIM's blackberry line. What will make or break this device is the apps. That is other then the faster browsing speed. T-mobile also is saying you going to the data package just to make calls, that means the lowest monthly cost $29.99+$35.99 reqired G1 data feature, that $64.98 before tax & any addional featurs. this give'n you 300 min & just free w weekends, with unltd browsing, data & msg (email/txt/picture). Something else you may not know t-mobile will be throttling data speeds. Expected amount 10GB per bill cycle. I wish google good luck but with every new product there are bound to be unforseen problems,

i'm hoping to see some video review soon. the text reviews don't do android djustice.

I'm not sure that the G1 supports stereo bluetooth... if not then this and the lack of a 3.5mm jack will be a real blow to those who want to use it as an mp3 player also. I imagine there'll be converters though.

No, the G1 will not support stereo bluetooth. Seems to me somebody could write some software to fix that though.

As for headphone jacks, I have the T-Mobile Dash and a couple of years ago I bought an adapter for five bucks similar to this...

http://allwrong.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/htcjack2.jpeg

Word is, HTC will be shipping one of these adapters with every G1. Headphones plug right in and it works swimmingly. I'm looking forward to this one.

All I know it will be a product that will make companys compete more and bring new phones out so thats why i know its a great phone

I got my phone last night. Have not had much time to play with it, but so far I like the look and feel of it (my other phone is a Treo 650). The user interface is pretty easy to use ...and no it does not ship with a headphone adapter.

So I just went down to look at it. I've been intrigued for months. Google phone? Full internet? On the cheapest carrier (and as a result the carrier I use)? woo hoo!

Well I finally got to see it in person.

First impression? I was disappointed. When you pick up an iPhone, it's substantial. You feel like you are holding a $200 phone. Maybe it's the metal. Maybe it's the glass. I don't know. You pick up the G1 and you may as well have picked up a toy. it's all plastic. Even the screen seemed plastic.

The phone flips open ala the sidekick to reveal a keyboard. Although slightly better than the sidekick style of opening where you would feel like the screen was just going to fall off, this was not much more impressive. Again, it's more about feel here, but it felt cheap. It was a very quick, jerking motion, with no smoothness to it. The buttons on the keypad, on the outside of the phone, and the rollerball all seemed to work fine, but still had that "I'm going to break before you even leave the store" feel.

The salesman came up to me and began to show me the features of the phone on one that he had in his pocket. Despite the weeks of e-mails I got from T-Mobile warning me to pre-order so I could get one before the Second Coming of Christ, the G1's seemed to be in ample supply, and this salesman was giving me the full court press.

Alright, so on to the features.

Initially slated to release with over 50 apps, it only had about 13. Some highlights included a barcode scanner built into the 3MP camera that would tell you on the fly where you could get a product cheaper. Scanning the G1 box sadly produced no hits, but amazon had a great price on the new Indy DVD. While I saw the usefulness of something like this, I wanted to see the meat and potatoes.

He went on to show me Google Maps, "This comes with something NEW called 'Google Maps'. You may not have heard of it, but soon everyone will be using it. " While I grinned through my teeth, the salesman tried to show me the street view functionality moving the phone around to have the street view move. This seemed a bit jumpy but did work.

It also had features like "Taxi" which upon a press of a single button would find the closest taxi co and call you a cab, and a quick mixology reference to tell you how to make any drink... ho hum.... on to the web .

The web browser loaded very quick, and did show "the REAL internet". The zoom function seemed a little wonky, having to either press magnifying glass icons or using a magnify box that would zoom into a particular area. Since there is no multitouch functionality on the G1 this was as close as you were going to get to an effective iPhone style zoom. It was a bit wonky and not the most responsive, but once you got past the bit of jumpiness of the zoom, the pages loaded easily. Sadly even the salesman had yet to get the hang of the zoom feature yet, giving me reason for pause.

He offered to take my picture and put it on the internet with "your new G1 phone". I said "Thanks but no. I have enough pictures on the internet for now, thanks." and left.

All in all, I know I'm being a little hard on the poor G1. Still, at $179 for a two year contract, or the simply outlandish price of $400 without a contract, I would expect something better than what appears to be a rushed prototype of what could have been a much better manufactured device. I'm sure Android is going to be the mobile operating system of the future. I'm sure there will be more open source apps than you can shake a stick at.

Until they come up with a better device though (Word is several other phones are already in development) I'm hard pressed to pay iPhone prices for a device that just doesn't measure up. Drop the price mark by $100, and I'm in. Heck, make it an even $100 and I'm there. This phone is simply not worth what they are charging.

I just ordered it yesterday, you have me feeling like a complete idiot right now for doing that.

Can't run apps from the sd card. That's no good. Guess I'll be waiting for the G2.

Poe, you should have 30 days to return it. I believe all carriers offer a kind of "trail period". Look into it.

almost ready to buy it.. trial for 14 days. Excited but nervous hearing all the cons ...lets see