PC Magazine: The T-Mobile G1 (Google Android) Is No iPhone
The T-Mobile G1 (Google Android) Is No iPhone
The G1 is nearly devoid of sex appeal. The color choices--black,
white, and brown—are just okay. The screen is large, but the lines are
all wrong. The phone has squarish edges, and even the keyboard seems a
little underbaked. Since the primary reason many people would choose
this phone over the iPhone is the keyboard, you would think it would
have a bit more flourish.
I'm not really surprised, though. HTC, the phone's manufacturer, makes
a bunch of iPhone-like phones, but none of them is an object of
obsession. The T-Mobile G-1 is no exception. I don't imagine that
anyone will see someone holding a G1 and say, "Hey, what's that?!"
Instead, I imagine we'll hear:
"Hey, is that a new phone?"
"Yeah, it's the G1."
"Oh, the Google phone? Hey…"
So there's some sex appeal in the G1 being the first Google mobile
device, but its looks won't set the world on fire.
Today's announcement event was almost a perfect reflection of the
phone: smart, informational, and somewhat reserved. I was glad to see
Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page on stage, but they should
have opened the show. They were the highlight.
I loved when Brin—a developer in his own right—revealed, "The first
app I ended up writing is one where you throw your [Google] phone up
in the air and it measures how much time it takes before it hits the
floor."
> Today's announcement event was almost a perfect reflection of the
> phone: smart, informational, and somewhat reserved. I was glad to see
> Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page on stage, but they should
> have opened the show. They were the highlight.
>
Ya gotta give 'em credit, though. Their stock looks like this:
GOOGLE
(NasdaqGS: GOOG)
Real-time: 445.61 Up 10.50 (2.41%) 12:36pm ET
PC Magazine: The T-Mobile G1 (Google Android) Is No iPhone
At 25 Sep 2008 08:48:28 -0700 iPhone 3Gold wrote:
> The T-Mobile G1 (Google Android) Is No iPhone
> The G1 is nearly devoid of sex appeal.
Agreed.
> The color choices--black,
> white, and brown—are just okay. The screen is large, but the lines are
> all wrong. The phone has squarish edges, and even the keyboard seems a
> little underbaked. Since the primary reason many people would choose
> this phone over the iPhone is the keyboard, you would think it would
> have a bit more flourish.
Again, your (or what ever blogger you're plagarizing today) mistake is
automatically assuming every new smartphone released is competing with the
iPhone's style.
Different strokes, as they say.
> I'm not really surprised, though. HTC, the phone's manufacturer, makes
> a bunch of iPhone-like phones, but none of them is an object of
> obsession.
Agreed again- HTC has an incredible lack of style sense. My AT&T Tilt (HTC
Kaiser) is one ugly phone.
> The T-Mobile G-1 is no exception. I don't imagine that
> anyone will see someone holding a G1 and say, "Hey, what's that?!"
> Instead, I imagine we'll hear:
>
> "Hey, is that a new phone?"
>
> "Yeah, it's the G1."
>
> "Oh, the Google phone? Hey…"
>
> So there's some sex appeal in the G1 being the first Google mobile
> device, but its looks won't set the world on fire.
Agreed. It certainly wouldn't be my first choice of phone if my primary
requirement was impressing strangers with my fasion sense. Fortunately for
me, that's not even in my top 50 reasons to buy a particular cellular phone.
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iPhone 3Gold <vic.healey@gmail.com> amazed us all with the following in
news:87d9e053-c5b2-42fb-bee4-fd139f49bb88@79g2000hsk.googlegroups.com:
>
> So there's some sex appeal in the G1 being the first Google mobile
> device, but its looks won't set the world on fire.
>
And where did Google or T-Mobile say that they were selling a phone with
sex appeal? Much more important to the intelligent customer is
functionality, not the likelihood of picking up high school girls with your
cool-looking phone. And in terms of functionality, the G1 blows away 1st-
gen iPhone by a mile- an important factor to remember as it was one of the
major arguments of the iCrap crowd when the 1st iPhone was introduced
("It's only the first phone and they'll make it more functional with the
next generation).
Given the open platform and development resources available, it looks like
Google blazes past Apple somewhere around the third phone.
But that's okay, Vic- we all know how real technology confuses you. That's
why the iPhone is perfect for you- it makes all the decisions for you adn
limits your choices to things your brain can handle.
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