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T-Mobile G1 Mobile Review Part 1/2 Bowman here at BWOne.com giving you my review of the T-Mobile G1, how does the first Android handset stuck up on the cell phone block. Let’s give it a GQ Review. Okay let’s go to some of this dot com with the T-mobile G1. First access me, Android USB headphones. Now on the G1 it doesn’t have a standard on headphone jack so you can’t plug in your own headphones so you have to use each USB once which is kind of a fail on T- mobile, Google and HTC who designed the hardware with a sheet of metallurgical plugin in any type of headphone that you wanted inside of it. These are decent pair and don’t get me wrong but it would be nice I supposed on premium headphones in there that you already have. You can plug it to a standard jack especially if they’re going to talk to us as media tight phone they want you to listen to music and listen to stuff on YouTube and things like that. Next, is the USB cable and you plug it right in and it will charge the device of the USB if you plug into your computer and it will also allow you to mount the storage card that you have inside the device too. It allows you to drag and drop content onto it. So speaking of that what you want, it comes with 1 gig micro SD card. So you can plug your music, your pictures anything you want you could plug right it onto here and it supports up to 8 gigabytes of the micro SD card. Next is battery. It is a standard 1150 milliamp power battery. It gives you about a talk time of about 5.8 hours, about 402 hours standby time but the time of it with Wi-Fi music and other things going on. I did find that the battery life is kind of shorter to the device if you’re using a lot of things on especially if you are going on internet or doing anything, data related, the battery rule one will be short on you. So the battery runs out they want to go on to use this charger. This is the standard watch item. It plugs right into the USB port in the bottom of it and you’ve got to get a faster charge of these and you will be on the USB cable. Next, you just have here a standard, getting started guides in terms of conditions. Here are your warranty, things of that nature and finally a soft case. If you’ve seen my biz kids tech reviews before you already know we’re going with these ones so we’re just going to shut that to the side and the next thing we’re going to do is we’re going to take a hardware tour of the T-mobile G1. Okay let’s take a hardware tour around T-Mobile G1. We’ll start here on the left side. Here on the left side here, you have your volume rocker key right here and you have a micro SD slot or GF slot up here and that will allow to turn in the side and you’re going to collage this way stick in the micro SD card right there and just close it up like that. Next in the bottom here you have microphone port and your USB port right here. On the right side here we dedicate the camera key on the front, you don’t have anything. On the back here we have here the 3 megapixels camera and your speaker and on the front here you have your 3.2 screen. It gives you the 320 about 4A spin resolution and on the bottom here you have your menu key. You have your send call key, hand key, back key, and end to all key and you have your tracks, track click ball right here. Then you slide it to open here and you have this sort of side kick kung fu action grip slide mechanism that props up. It reveals to create a key word here and to stop only different QWERTY keyboard than what you use it from most HTC devices so you can take a look and get used to it. It’s a great keyboard as all the keys are separated very well and you can poke around as you go along but if you use the current HTC device that I can show you right here because here are the keyboards a little more together on this particular HTC device so it used to kind of sliding around that pick your way to the keys on this. You're going to actually to have to kind of slot a little further or pick your thumbs up as you go along to pick each key. And just to do and to compare some of each device I’ll take an XV6800 Blackberry Curve and it’s just going to give you a size comparison here. Next thing we’re going to do we’re going to fire on the device and take it tour at the software. First thing we’re going to do is we’re going to turn on the device and see how long it takes to boot off. One thing to know is when you’ve initially turned it on and it boots up if you haven’t set up your Gmail account yet it’s going to ask you to set it up. If you don’t have one already you can actually set up one right here on the phone and it wirelessly create it for you. If you already have one I will see you just put your login information. It will be set to go. All right, once you boot up here look at to the screen lock. You just have to have to press the menu key and lock the screen and now you’re at the desktop. This is the main part and at desktop you get a bunch of different wages on the main one. Make it your clock widget. You have a widget for your dialer, contacts, browser and maps and when you go from side to side on this you’ll get an extended desktop on this side. You have a Google Search widget and on the other side here you have nothing at all but if you want to add something or add something to any part of the desktop just hold on the screen and you can add an application that said Amazon so now that’s on your own desktop and available as a quick shortcut. If you don’t want it you just hold it down, your phone will vibrate a little bit and drag it down there and it goes away and you could hold down on any icon to drag it wherever you want it to be. So that’s a pretty much a desktop there. Next thing we could go over here at the phone. Obviously you want to know how it works to the phones so we click on the dialer and you come to this screen here and you basically have a nice big buttons that you can touch before you dial a number here and you actually click on that on the little green bar up here that actually send or you can click the send button down here at the bottom and in this screen you have your call logs, you have your contacts and you have your favorite contacts so people that you’ve started your favorite will show up in here. And when you're on a call, we’ll just call voicemail for an example. I’ll show up on the screen here and click menu for options and you can swap the call and you can merge calls, you can add a call, you can end the call that is your holes, you mute the speaker phone and you Bluetooth if you have a Bluetooth on via Bluetooth turned on and the headset setup. If you hit this button down here or the five button, it brings it to dialer screen again and this will end the call, just click end and now it shows up right here in your call logs. So that’s the phone for the most part. Next of point of thing that I come to suggest using this little phone is the messaging obviously. So if you click this icon here at the bottom of your desktop it brings up TM basically your add menu and hit this icon here on the bottom. It’s messaging and you get all your messages here. You click here and start to text message, you type in who you wanted to message and you type your message there if you open up the keyboard to compose and you click on the message and it will show up here at the bottom and that’s where the text messaging so it would look like an instant message app. And speaking of apps, this is a way you access all the apps so this is your app menu. Any apps that you download all show up here and your shortcuts right here so you have apps like my download of the Bank of America app. You have your calculator, your calendar, your camera, your contacts, your dialer, email, then your Gmail too. So if you have a Gmail you can set it up here. If you’ve got text, just hold them and scroll down here and you have your IM which can show you your IM real quick. Now the important part of the phone is a messaging obviously so you have your Google account, you have your AIM, Windows Live, and Yahoo available and you your MySpace app if you want to add that too. We have some games like Pacman and you have YouTube down there as well. So what we’re going to do here is actually just going to have to cut this over to the part two where I will show you how to hack through some of the apps that come to T-Mobile G1.

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T-Mobile G1 Mobile Review Part 1/2

Bowman here at BWOne.com giving you my review of the T-Mobile G1, how does the first Android handset stuck up on the cell phone block. Let’s give it a GQ Review.

Okay let’s go to some of this dot com with the T-mobile G1. First access me, Android USB headphones. Now on the G1 it doesn’t have a standard on headphone jack so you can’t plug in your own headphones so you have to use each USB once which is kind of a fail on T- mobile, Google and HTC who designed the hardware with a sheet of metallurgical plugin in any type of headphone that you wanted inside of it.

These are decent pair and don’t get me wrong but it would be nice I supposed on premium headphones in there that you already have. You can plug it to a standard jack especially if they’re going to talk to us as media tight phone they want you to listen to music and listen to stuff on YouTube and things like that.

Next, is the USB cable and you plug it right in and it will charge the device of the USB if you plug into your computer and it will also allow you to mount the storage card that you have inside the device too. It allows you to drag and drop content onto it. So speaking of that what you want, it comes with 1 gig micro SD card. So you can plug your music, your pictures anything you want you could plug right it onto here and it supports up to 8 gigabytes of the micro SD card.

Next is battery. It is a standard 1150 milliamp power battery. It gives you about a talk time of about 5.8 hours, about 402 hours standby time but the time of it with Wi-Fi music and other things going on. I did find that the battery life is kind of shorter to the device if you’re using a lot of things on especially if you are going on internet or doing anything, data related, the battery rule one will be short on you.

So the battery runs out they want to go on to use this charger. This is the standard watch item. It plugs right into the USB port in the bottom of it and you’ve got to get a faster charge of these and you will be on the USB cable.

Next, you just have here a standard, getting started guides in terms of conditions. Here are your warranty, things of that nature and finally a soft case. If you’ve seen my biz kids tech reviews before you already know we’re going with these ones so we’re just going to shut that to the side and the next thing we’re going to do is we’re going to take a hardware tour of the T-mobile G1.

Okay let’s take a hardware tour around T-Mobile G1. We’ll start here on the left side. Here on the left side here, you have your volume rocker key right here and you have a micro SD slot or GF slot up here and that will allow to turn in the side and you’re going to collage this way stick in the micro SD card right there and just close it up like that. Next in the bottom here you have microphone port and your USB port right here.

On the right side here we dedicate the camera key on the front, you don’t have anything. On the back here we have here the 3 megapixels camera and your speaker and on the front here you have your 3.2 screen. It gives you the 320 about 4A spin resolution and on the bottom here you have your menu key. You have your send call key, hand key, back key, and end to all key and you have your tracks, track click ball right here.

Then you slide it to open here and you have this sort of side kick kung fu action grip slide mechanism that props up. It reveals to create a key word here and to stop only different QWERTY keyboard than what you use it from most HTC devices so you can take a look and get used to it. It’s a great keyboard as all the keys are separated very well and you can poke around as you go along but if you use the current HTC device that I can show you right here because here are the keyboards a little more together on this particular HTC device so it used to kind of sliding around that pick your way to the keys on this. You're going to actually to have to kind of slot a little further or pick your thumbs up as you go along to pick each key.

And just to do and to compare some of each device I’ll take an XV6800 Blackberry Curve and it’s just going to give you a size comparison here. Next thing we’re going to do we’re going to fire on the device and take it tour at the software. First thing we’re going to do is we’re going to turn on the device and see how long it takes to boot off.

One thing to know is when you’ve initially turned it on and it boots up if you haven’t set up your Gmail account yet it’s going to ask you to set it up. If you don’t have one already you can actually set up one right here on the phone and it wirelessly create it for you. If you already have one I will see you just put your login information. It will be set to go.

All right, once you boot up here look at to the screen lock. You just have to have to press the menu key and lock the screen and now you’re at the desktop. This is the main part and at desktop you get a bunch of different wages on the main one. Make it your clock widget. You have a widget for your dialer, contacts, browser and maps and when you go from side to side on this you’ll get an extended desktop on this side. You have a Google Search widget and on the other side here you have nothing at all but if you want to add something or add something to any part of the desktop just hold on the screen and you can add an application that said Amazon so now that’s on your own desktop and available as a quick shortcut. If you don’t want it you just hold it down, your phone will vibrate a little bit and drag it down there and it goes away and you could hold down on any icon to drag it wherever you want it to be.

So that’s a pretty much a desktop there. Next thing we could go over here at the phone. Obviously you want to know how it works to the phones so we click on the dialer and you come to this screen here and you basically have a nice big buttons that you can touch before you dial a number here and you actually click on that on the little green bar up here that actually send or you can click the send button down here at the bottom and in this screen you have your call logs, you have your contacts and you have your favorite contacts so people that you’ve started your favorite will show up in here.

And when you're on a call, we’ll just call voicemail for an example. I’ll show up on the screen here and click menu for options and you can swap the call and you can merge calls, you can add a call, you can end the call that is your holes, you mute the speaker phone and you Bluetooth if you have a Bluetooth on via Bluetooth turned on and the headset setup. If you hit this button down here or the five button, it brings it to dialer screen again and this will end the call, just click end and now it shows up right here in your call logs. So that’s the phone for the most part.

Next of point of thing that I come to suggest using this little phone is the messaging obviously. So if you click this icon here at the bottom of your desktop it brings up TM basically your add menu and hit this icon here on the bottom. It’s messaging and you get all your messages here. You click here and start to text message, you type in who you wanted to message and you type your message there if you open up the keyboard to compose and you click on the message and it will show up here at the bottom and that’s where the text messaging so it would look like an instant message app.

And speaking of apps, this is a way you access all the apps so this is your app menu. Any apps that you download all show up here and your shortcuts right here so you have apps like my download of the Bank of America app. You have your calculator, your calendar, your camera, your contacts, your dialer, email, then your Gmail too. So if you have a Gmail you can set it up here. If you’ve got text, just hold them and scroll down here and you have your IM which can show you your IM real quick.

Now the important part of the phone is a messaging obviously so you have your Google account, you have your AIM, Windows Live, and Yahoo available and you your MySpace app if you want to add that too. We have some games like Pacman and you have YouTube down there as well.

So what we’re going to do here is actually just going to have to cut this over to the part two where I will show you how to hack through some of the apps that come to T-Mobile G1.

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T-Mobile G1 Mobile Review Part 1/2

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