I think it looks pretty good. The buttons and scroller/joystick plus keyboard and touchscreen is a great combination vs the iphone's virtual keyboard.

Besides, no one needs these phones... haha. Both the iphone and this one with their plans is suuuuuuuch a waste of money. Just get a laptop or mini laptop if you want to do super stuff on the go.

Please people, resist the message that new products make you cool or that a smart phone improves your life drastically. Use your brain, that's smart.

Was very much looking forward to upgrading to this phone (am already a T-Mobile customer) but I will definitely pass now because of the following (WTF-EPIC-FAIL) flaws:

* $25-with-400-message and $35-with-unlimited-messages data plans both capped at 1GB/mo. as per fine print. This on a 3G phone in 2008 is an abomination.
* Looks like absolute plastic toy junk. I cannot get over that aspect. I thought I could but can't.
* Entire phone is tied to one gmail account. Want to use another (for not just email -- can use IMAP for that)? Factory reset the phone!
* Screen panel doesn't support multitouch.
* No tethering (yet, at least... might be "hacked" into it eventually but the data plan cap kills it mostly anyway.

I'm sure we'll find out more quirks as we get reports from more people playing with the G1 phones but for now, the "WTF" list is growing every hour.

PS. Did I mention just how fugly this thing still appears to be? We've all seen the leaked photos before and whatnot but deep down inside we were hoping we saw an early prototype model.. but nope... we were seeing this circa 1990-looking phone all along. *sigh*

I think HTC will show something better, they give to T-Mobile an early working prototype.
just look here: http://www.htc.com/www/product.aspx?id=64790

I'm not seeing what Android offers that is new, other than its 'open'. WinMo is open too and you can write whatever you want for it. Now, I'm not saying Android is bad, it may be a great mobile OS... but I'm not seeing why theres so much hype for it. The iPhone at least had things that, at the time, no other phone had with multi-touch. Android seems to be saying 'We do what all other mobile OS's do... except we're open! That makes it better!'

WinMo 6.0 and 6.1 do what they're suppsed to do in regards to Exchange sync over the air, and tethering, so I'm not seeing what Android is going to do better, except for the fact its NOT MS so theres always that crowd that will start humping it.

That said, I'll reiterate, I don't think Android is bad, I just don't see why its such a big deal.

An ugly phone. Unfortunately that's what you get when you only make a software platform.

Open-source is not a seller, it's Cyril spouting fanboy bias. It's rather useless if you're not a dev, it's also useless even if you are (why would you want to see source code unless you think you can write a better OS? When you make an app, you care about the programming interface and all platforms have excellent APIs, even the OS on the iPhone).

When the head of a company points out calculating the time a phone is airborn is a cool app, you have to wonder if it's a business or a charity for PhDs.

All things considered, Windows Mobile as a platform is much more useful. iPhone and BlackBerry are complete and open platforms, and most important, smart looking devices.

The device itself may not look as sexy as the iPhone, but the software is where T-Mobile and Google will likely focus the brunt of their joint marketing effort.

This will never work. Most consumers, especially people looking for cool cellphones, are extraordinarily sheepish in this arena -- IE, the phone that <insert service provider here> gives them is the phone they get. If they DO decide to purchase something "more powerful," they usually buy crap that has stupid, gimmicky features (dual screens on the Samsung UpStage) or happens to be a "Beyonce" edition or some stupid crap like that.

Capitalism has failed ever so miserably in the handset area.

Google, stop doing browsers and phones. That market slot is already filled with good enough vendors. Just concentrate on search engines and related stuff, ok? Good boy.

Version 1.0 product here folks, move along.

Oh and I'll be waiting in line for a gen2 Android when Verizon gets it. In the meantime my dinky little LG VX8550 does everything I want.

storage?

Why Why Why only for T-Mobile.
Come on! Let's have an UNLOCKED version ready to 'utilize' the SIM from my crappy AT&T Windows Mobile phone!

Looks pretty neat for a first gen Android phone. Let's give it a few months in order for the main bugs to be squashed and then maybe we could see a lil' comparison/review of it and the iPhone ? *hint* *hint* :D

Adi

The story about the cooler that Nehalem will use has more comments than the new Android phone. :lol:

Wow, what happened to the bottom part of this phone, looks like a toy.

Do not want, the htc looked nice, but this thing looks terrible.

I'd say give it 6 months and see where it is.

It looks good enough to me.

I'd buy it if the Tmobile plan was acceptable.