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p2pnet news view | Mobiles:- The mainstream media are all-a-Google over the latest mobile phone; one geared up with the company’s Android.
But problems are quickly piling up, including some that, “might very well be dealbreakers,” says Matt Buchanan on Gizmodo.
His post is accompanied by (slightly modified) the pic on the right. Is it necessary to say more? 
Well — – — – OK.
Topping the list, says Buchanan, is, “it’s tightly integrated with your Google account — so tightly that you can only use one Google account with the phone. If you want to switch to another account, you have to do a whole factory reset.”
In an update, he goes on “Added a new, deeply aggravating bonus flaw” »»»
A Googler told us the workaround they’ve been employing is using a separate IMAP mail app for their secondary Gmail accounts, but that still screws you if you’ve got calendars on multiple Google accounts—like if you’ve got a hosted Google Apps account for your site and a personal one, you’ve gotta pick one or the other. This is a technical limitation of Android 1.0, so it should be fixed in the future, but for now, as someone with a work account and a personal one, it definitely stings.
In summary from the detailed Gizmodo list:
- Contacts and Syncing: As mentioned, there is no desktop syncing app.
- Hardware Inadequacies: No multitouch on the G1 and there never will be, since the panel itself doesn’t support it.
- Miscellaneous: You’ve gotta have an SD card for any kind of music or video playback, once the latter arrives—there’s no internal storage for media playback.
- For all of the choices when it comes to navigation, the fact that you have to use the QWERTY keyboard for all text entry can be annoying, since it involves a lot of flipping the phone around to type if you’re navigating vertically.
- Finally, it’s locked to T-Mobile. A Googler lamented that as well since it goes against the openness of Android, but said that in the long run, that won’t matter, since there will be a ton of devices.
- Bonus T-Mobile obnoxious flaw: If you’re lucky enough to live in one of the markets sprinkled with 3G, after you’ve used 1GB of data, T-Mobile will slow you down to 50Kbps for the rest of the month.
Now you know.
Gizmodo - Android and T-Mobile G1’s Five Most Obnoxious Flaws, September 23, 2008
slow you down to 50Kbps - 1 gig per month T-Mobile GooPhone cap, September 24, 2008
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September 24th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
That’s wack, when the Android was released I was questioning why would they use T-Mobile as the main SP for the phone when T-Mobile isn’t known for being a feature rich SP. The fact that they have a bandwith cap is surprising considering most service providers don’t cap their 3G bandwith services. When you have a phone like the Android you’re going to use a lot of bandwith data, but otherwise the phone itself is very impressive.
September 24th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
That’s wack, when the Android was released I was questioning why would they use T-Mobile as the main SP for the phone when T-Mobile isn’t known for being a feature rich SP. The fact that they have a bandwith cap is surprising considering most service providers don’t cap their 3G bandwith services. When you have a phone like the Android you’re going to use a lot of bandwith data, but otherwise the phone itself is very impressive, now if they could just release it to sprint now that’d be real good
September 27th, 2008 at 2:27 am
lol, at opening image.
September 28th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
T-Mobile has already relented and removed the 1gb cap:
http://gizmodo.com/5054473/t+mobile-removes-1gb-3g-data-cap-for-g1-android-phone