T-Mobile G1 Slide Phone Touchscreen 3G mobile phone handset reviews and tariffs

+ Very good for email and web browsing..............Easy to use phone....Google talk...

- The Battery life is not that good but i understand that a phone like this will used up the battery very quickly..

+ Really easy to use and good range of apps which is only likely to grow

- battery life is poor

+ Fantastic out of the box experience, very easy to get the hang of it - within minutes I was checking my email and browsing the web. Coverage has been great, and the keyboard is very useful. Massive amount of free downloadable add ons via the andriod market... games and applications galore.
Great quality screen, good bat life considering all the features. Web and walk package came free and is fab.
Tiny joystick is great for games and navigating. Could easily replace your laptop for short trips if you use google docs or similar. Great phone for the price, more fun than a blackberry and easier to use than the iphone... but I bet the G2 will be better.

- Had to call to have the data package switched on before the phone would connect to the web.
Design is functional rather than slick, could do with a touch screen keyboard for quick one hand texts - I'm sure this will be an add via the andriod market soon anyway. Not microsoft friendly. Has the feel of a beta device, but still is really really really good value and versitile lol.

+ touch screen facility, internet access.

- 1 - battery life isn't that great-seem to have to charge it everyday, sometimes more than once!
2 - tried to use personal pics as wallpaper but can't seem to get them to shrink to fit the screen. ok, i'm still trying to get to grips with some aspects!

+ Very simple to use, relatively fast speed on internet

- It uses up a lot of the battery life very quickly and although I do like the touch screen features, I can be annoying when you're carrying it in your pocket or bag as it would click onto something unintentionally.

+ easy to usu simple but good

- touch screen slow to respond

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- No Exchange email support which is just kills the whole purpose of buying a smart phone. I bought this phone thinking that its Google's O/S & will have the feature after the release but am extremely dissapointed as there is still no sign of it.

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- the price the features the battery life

+ I love this phone! It's always connected to the internet, which is easy to use and relatively quick too. Although the phone is very easy to use I'm always finding new things I didn't notice before. The screen size is huge, the nice thing about this phone is how personalised you can make it look. Text messages are displayed in a conversational format, which is great. No problems with the touch screen so far.

- The shutter on the camera is quite slow so you need to stay very still whilst taking photos. My roller ball is very sensitive and sometimes moves very quickly whilst using it to browse the internet. Deleting one-off text messages is a bit of a pain. Deleting a whole thread is easy, but each time you delete one message it returns you to the bottom of the thread and frequently hasn't deleted the message you actually selected, but another one instead...very irritating!! Despite that, it's still a great phone and I love it!

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- battery life

+ expandable memory, removable battery, reasonably cheap monthly tarriff for a smartphone

- The battery life is really the only criticism i have of this device

+ The operating software is very useable, easy to just pick up and play with. The 3G service is adequately quick!
The synchronisation with the google account is very useful.

- Battery life could be better, it is being asked to power a lot of things so not surprised it dies quicklly. Only issue with the whole package.

+ Qwerty keyboard, TouchFlo technology, Easy web access, Google

- Battery life (only 1 day), No Bluetooth; cant send or receive data to/from other devices, keyboard features difficult to see with backlight on

+ When you go on the android market, you can download someone the most amazing applications (for free!!!). Everyone i have shown my new phone to, have instantly said they want one. in fact my partner tried to cancel his blackberry contract to get this phone with in 5 minutes of watching me play with it.

- The battery life is terrible. It really is the only bad point of the phone, they should bring out a stronger battery or a extra gadget or something for it that you can recharge the battery when needed.

+ fun, convenience, great applications, has everything you could need in a laptop.

- camera quality, no video capture, automatic locking annoying.

+ its relativitaly easy to use, good looking stylish phone, keypad makes life very easy. making phone calls is pretty easy.

- battery life goes very quickly, when using internet the battery dissapears in the space of 10minutes. not very loud, camera is not very good no video. have hade the phone a month and either i cant work out how to send files via bluetooth or you cant. not a good connection with the internet. signal is quite bad from this phone. setting the phone up when you get it is confusing.

+ An excellent phone overall as the good points out view the bad points. To begin with, the design on the phone in pictures doesn't look too great. However, as you get a hold and feel of it, its actually a pretty nice design. The qwerty keyboard flips really well and the ease of the use of buttons is exceptional. Some do complain that the keys are a bit hard to see in the White G1. However, to you really get used to where the buttons are in a week or so, so you hardly look at the keypad after a while when you type. The touch screen is very responsive just like the Apple Iphone. This phone is equally similar to the apple Iphone but to top it off, the Android software allows you to install many programs onto your phone which makes it ever so incredible.

- Hmmm theres not many bad points of this phone. Only two that i can think of. First one being the definite battery life which is really below standards. If you are going to be a frequent user of web browsing or listening to music, then im afraid you're going to have to charge your phone everyday. In addition, upon installation of applications, they get installed on your phone memory instead of your micro sd card. Therefore, you have a limited cappicity.

+ only used my pc 3 times since getting my g1, speaks for itself doesnt it

- battery! how on earth does any company even think of releasing something which has a battery that cannot last a full day when doing the basic tasks such as 3g, email and web which are meant to be the key selling points of the device.

+ Large screen, easy to use for web browsing, nice user interface.

- Appalling battery life. GPS is essentially unusable as it drains the battery in a few hours. Bluetooth does similar. Barely lasts a working day even with light use and many features switched off. Even with screen locked, music player cuts out and unpredictably skips to different tracks sometimes.

+ Tocuh screen works well and i can do most of what i want.

- The camera seems to be really basic (unless i just haven't found the stuff). The battery life is diabolical! Especially if you use it a lot. The keyboard can be hard to use with the side panel and if you have a lead plugged in.

+ SO many applications, most of which are free and many of which are brilliant;
The 3 modes of input (screen, trackball, keyboard) give absolute flexibility;
Fantastic web browser, as good as any desktop browser.

- The battery life isn't brilliant - you need to make sure you disable functionality you don't need if it's to last a day. Fortunately there are apps that will do this automatically depending on battery level, your location, time of day...

+ sunchronised email,calender and android market.

- no flash, very bads battery life.

+ messaging is good, free application at the momnet and none of my friends have the phone

- Battery needs charing every day

+ excellent integration of google email, calendar and contacts etc Google maps is superb.

- woeful bettery performance

+ Fantastic Web browser, text messaging, software potential, and widgets, loveing the google mas, gps etc overall I think it is a fabulous phone

- Battery life can be poor, camera could do with a few more features like zoom, and support for MS exchange ( and I know its a linux based phone, but it would appeal to more business people if it supported exchange.

+ Love the integration with google, the excellent web browser and application marketplace. I bought the phone for the software and wasn't disappointed. The keyboard is nice and solid. It's a joy to use.

- Battery life when browsing/listening to music is pretty poor. Wasn't impressed with the camera, and the lack of flash is especially.

+ The G1 is a nice size and weight, the touch screen is nice to use and the display is fine - works well even in bright sunlight on the dimmer settings.
The Android Operating System is really good, and is specifically what attracted me to the G1 over other devices available. Although there are not yet huge amounts of applications available, the features of the G1 (touch screen, compass, accelerometer, gps, 3g, etc) provide a lot of potential for smart developers to build really great things.

- The front four round buttons are flat against the case surface - this makes it difficult to identify where they are without looking. The block that these buttons are on is a little obtrusive when trying to use the keyboard, but ok - however, when a USB device is attached (charger, headphones, etc) it is *very* difficult to type properly. The keyboard has no cursor keys, requiring you to use the trackball for navigation - however, the trackball can be a little fiddly when you're not paying attention.
The "menu" key on the keyboard is where the shift key *should* be - and it took a long while to get used to the shift key being down below.
The space bar is also too short - only two keys width, when three or four would have been more sensible. The speaker is on the *rear* of the device, next to the camera lens, which muffles sound from music/videos, especially when the device is on a flat surface. As both the charger and headphones use USB, you cannot use both together - the device does not come with an adapter for this as you would expect.

+ If you already use gmail, google calendar and contacts, then the simple sync makes it a great device for extending them into mobile.
Personally I like the fact it has a "real" keyboard, plus a trackball, plus the touchscreen - much more flexible than having to do everything via touch.
Easy to use and to customise, plus the Android market is starting to have some interesting applications to add.

- Battery life isn't great if in a poor signal area and using lots of functionality.
removable bits - SD card cover, USB cover and back panel - all feel flimsy.

+ this is truly an amazing device, so much more than a phone, it's literally like a small pc, and if you use gmail and other google products online, you are completly insync with all of your email and etc. there are many features of this phone to love, one of the main ones is the keyboard, i don't have slender fingers, but typing on this full qwerty keyboard is very easy. and among other things to credit is that the g1's operating system, Android, because it is completly open source it can be changed by anyone and you can download many free apps made by people everyday, this is truly a remarkable device that i'd definatly reccomend this phone for anyone, far better than the iphone in my opinion.

- one thing that i'd like to be improved on the phone is the battery life.

+ easy to use, has everything i was looking for. email and inyternet navigation

- you can't use the device to its fullest because the battery life is horrible. i can't use gps or 3g because the battery won't last more than few hours. so basically i have everything i like but i can't use it due to the batery. and the keyboard is a bit uncomfortable, but the worst thing is battery life which prevent me to use the device at its fulllest

+ The keyboard.

- - Too many control buttons, as we know, one is enough.
- No proximity sensors, sends dial tones when held to ear.
- E-mail is a shame, flattened hierarchy of folders, messages are not marked read when read, contents are sometimes not displayed, cannot move or delete messages, reply or compose not possible for people with accented characters in their names etc. etc.
- Contact list cannot handle companies, does not display company names, only the numbers in the list.
- Low quality build, I am afraid it will fall apart in the next coming days.
I ask myself, did Google actually look at the Blackberry and the iPhone before releasing a product that is lightyears behind the competition?

+ Awesome phone...

- battery sucks.. 20minutes of EVERYTHING turned off, except the music player, went from 100% to 69%.

+ Very good expandable software. fantastic screen good hardware design.

- battery life. make sure you have a charger with you at all times

+ integration of chat, email and sms. integration with gmail

- poor battery life

+ Very flexible, based on a free and open OS (Android) it has unlimited potential. Very responsive touch screen.

- I wish the battery could last longer...

+ email/internet, android market

- battery life

+ Just about everything. The market with the free apps and games is a great feature to name just one..

- Battery doesnt really last long, especially if your surfing the web for long periods. Understandable though, not really such a major problem.

+ Excellent for web browsing on the move. Camera is good if light is good. Sound quality is good. Good selection of free software to download.

- Battery life is quite short if browsing web alot. No flash for camera

+ excellent the iphone killer without a doubt

- none really. short battery life but the amount of things the phone does every second means it is understandable

+ I can get my gmail anywhere cool phone very happy!

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+ Synchronises with Google on my Mac. Easy to use and allows me to keep fully in touch without my laptop.
Good screen
Good keyboard
Home page and scrolling screen very effective

- Battery life has got to be sorted out...
Calendar compares badly with my 3 year old Palm
On screen dialer needs to be available while phone in use for navigating call centres
Mouse too sensitive
Shold be able to answer phone by touching screen

+ WHAT GOT MY ATTENTION TO THE G1 WAS THE FEATURES IT HAS, EASY TO DOWNLOAD CONTENT AND SOFTWARE WHICH IS PLUS AND THE WAY THE EMAIL IS EASY TO USE. WEB BROWSING IS VERY GOOD ON THIS PHONE QUICK NAVIGATION USER FRIENDLY ASWELL, COMPARED TO SOME PHONES I HAD IN THE PAST. KEYPAD IS EASY TO GET AROUND WITH.

- I FOUND A COUPLE OF THINGS BAD WITH THE G1 WAS THE BATTERY LIFE GOES REAL QUICK IF YOU USE THE SOFTWARE OR THE GPS. USING THE BLUETOOTH WAS DIFFICULT, IT WOULD NOT CONNECT TO OTHER DEVICES OR COULD NOT FIND THEM. THERES NO FLASH WITH THE CAMERA WHICH IS A BIT OF A DISAPPOINTMENT.

+ Very good design, simple to use, lots of great features.

- Battery life is not good!

+ It has a great design, it is very easy to use, and the web browsing is excellent. The sound and picture quality are great and the qwerty keypad makes texting a lot easier.

- I have had trouble connecting to other phones via bluetooth, and the phone needs charging quite a lot.

+ nice looking phone

- uses alot of battery. slow connecting to the net. cant forward messages. no video camera

+ ease of use
style
touchscreen is unique

- camera
could do with a on screen keypad for quick type of reply to text messages, although qwerty is good for long text or email

+ the g1 has a really cool market where free downloads are regulary updated

- the phone internal specs arnt so great to many messages and the phone crashes

+ web browsing is easy and just like a very little laptop. v easy to use. great quality.

- just to big to be used as a phone you would stick in your pocket. stick to laptops for using as a computer and get a petite phone to use as a phone! must have gadgets don't wear well!!!

+ Works well, loads to download from Android Market. Internet ready. Battery life can be improved with apps on Android market.

- Battery life

+ most things,the look of it,the quality feel of it like it will last.the ease of the navigation

- dont like the way there is no way to text without opening out the keyboard also not being able to connect to other devices via bluetooth

+ Great phone for a office on the move, with great features and easy to use

- Wont sync with Outlook, Thats really really disapointed me and also the battery life doesnt last long, But its a mini computer so it wont last long,

+ easy to use keyboard whilst holding phone

- camera is poor quality
no flash on camera
no software to forward recieved text
battery life poor
software slow whilst browsing the internet
network signal always low

+ The design of this phone is really good and relatively easy to use.

- The battery life is really bad...I'm having to charge it every 24 hours.

+ good phone overall

- poor battery life

+ Its fabulous for browsing the net and for email.
The screen is a nice size and the Astroid Market is brilliant. There is so many applications to install to the phone.
I personally think its user friendly & everything is really self explanatory.
The way the phone opens up into a keyboard is a really nice feature aswell.

- The battery life is terrible, I'm on the net for about 15 minutes and the battery is close to have empty which is really annoying!
The camera doesnt have a flash and doesnt really take good pics?

+ Excellent for checking E-Mails and web browsing on the move. Android Market is also a fantastic feature, very useful.

- Some design problems, especially with the camera. Problems at times discovering the SD Card and it can sometimes be fiddly to take a picture.

+ Text messaging good.

- Bluetooth not good. Locking phone an issue- has tendancy to unlock. Internet sometimes dodgy for no reason.

+ ??? I'm still wondering which are those.

- Everything: battery, bluetooth, navigation, touchscreen, signal, sound, programs etc.
The scanning software for finding out the best prices is just for some things dvd, some closes, but not the what's important so is just for playing a bit.
If you whant navigation you wont get. Is just google maps browsing.
Battery? Dead at half a day so you have toget your charger with you all the time.
Bluetooth? It finds it when is 1 m from it.
Touchscreen? Is optional I think or A.I. (works when wants to).
Rubbish phone , rubbish navigation, rubbish all arround.
Sorry but is the truth sometime hurts. (It will hurt my pocket for the next 18 months).

+ I love this phone it has everything and if it hasnt got what you want then you just down load it. So easy to use and the best phone ive ever used.

- The batterie dose not last long but i can put up with that, I cant find a way to save my texts to the memory card or make different folders to save stuff, there is no easy way to do this infact i still havnt found anyway of doing this.

+ ease of use to make calls

- battery life could be longer

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- Won't bluetooth to other phones and won't accept from bluetooth from other phones. Also mms you have to remember a code to see pictures and that takes too long plus can't remember pass code

+ good internet access and apps

- terrible battery, quite ugly and updates (rc9)

+ The phone looks good , is compact and easy to use , all round stylish , love it!

- Initially it was difficult to control the trackball , but have got used to it now and manage it with ease . You just need to spend a little time getting to know your phone .

+ fast browser

- Backlight on keyboard makes it hard to read

+ its has everythings that u need to organise u'self in daytoday job

- the batterylife is shot

+ it is quick and easy to navigate.

- The battery runs low very quickly, as soon as you use an application or internet and I find myself charging it everyday, maybe even twice depending on how much i have used it. it is also quite big in width, and could be made lighter

+ Easy to Use

- Not available with different language pack so you can not look at some websites

+ easy to use for checking emails,great picture quality on youtube videos and brilliant connection speeds if its using a wireless network or not, the android market is genius even though it is still in its infancy. the availability of the different linux console emulators.

- the battery life is its biggest flaw if i use it through out the day i'll be lucky if it lasts a shift, the features at the moment are not being used to the best of there abilities, i cant wait to see it at its full ability (running quake at tech demo's)

+ easy to use. good keyboard fast good screen

- battery life

+ qwerty keyboard

- battery life is not good

+ easy to operate, quick web browsing, easy to use keyboard.

- not able to view graphs, needs flash which one cannot download althouth its free. Not convinient for business trading.

+ i love the internet, so to have it with me all the time is amazing. the ability to sync with all my google content is superb. the freedom android offers software developers to develop cool apps for my phone is very attractive.

- the battery and camera suck.

+ Fast connectivity, easy to use qwerty keyboard, android software is fantastic and easy to use with loads of apps to download.

- No video function only pics, bluetooth won't connect to any other device (?) and no flash on camera.

+ Easy to use and navigate throught phone menus, easy to customise with android market applications

- Poor battery life, no onscreen keyboard.

+ Can access the internet quickly and anywhere.
It looks fantastic, everyone wants to take a look.

- Can't blue tooth between phones.
When the keyboard lights up I can't read the keys.

+ Different applications, responsive touchscreen, nice keyboard

- Battery life is appalling, software is lagging at times

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- Camera is quite poor. No flash and very unsteady.

+ Android Market is excellent. phone doesn't do something? odd are that there'll be an application on ther that will do what you want. Not being an iPhone and having a physical keyboard is great too. would highly recommend this phone and, in fact, i have 2 converts in a week - including an iPhone user!

- sometimes abysmal battery life. lack of accessories. lack of headphone socket.

+ OpenSourced, free SDK, Full internet access, Interface, Dedicated keyboard, Weight, Screen size, Open Market, Features, GPS, Accelerometer, Security, Upgradeability, Extensibility.

- Headphones, Socket, Slow camera, Sound quality, Synchronisation, Decent battery life.

+ Fantastic web browsing and interface.

- Battery life sucks.

+ all the games and applications you can download everyday is the best. Especially Toddler Lock which my son loves.

- No bluetooth that the only thing that kept me from buying one myself

+ For the internet this phone is better than the iphone

- phone needs charging every day

+ I have tried almost all the latest phones in the market these days, but trust me I have never saw a phone which works that good for the internet.

- I dont know what was in the mind of the makers of G1 when they were making the phone, I think they forgot that "its a complicated phone and it needs a bigger battery". The battery is even worse than the i-Phone3G!

+ great to have the internet to hand constantly

- the battery life is poor, you can use the internet for 5 mins and you have used half of your battery life up. so needs constant charging.

+ Nice to be able to use the Google apps anytime, anywhere

- WHite keyboard - invisible characters when backlight is on - even at night!

+ where do i start, its simply a brilliant phone. everything works well and the email facility and texting on a full size keyboard is a dream. just waiting for the software upgrade to see what else this thing can deliver.

- battery life is not too good and needs charging every day. Would have liked to see 16/32Gig as standard memory built in with the option to add further 16/32 gig cards. Headphone socket is also a little bit of an oversight but no doubt someone will make an attachment. I would also like to see the support of two sim cards for those of us that travel to the US or Europe.

+ web browsing is fast. good applications. large screen.

- when you open the phone to type on the keyboard it is hard to reach the right side of the keyboard because of the menu buttons and navigation ball area is in the way

+ Good user interfafce.
Large screen.
Includes trackball full qwerty keypad and touchscreen navigatVery wide choice of free applications on the android market.
Good internet browser.

- Camera not so good.
Battery needs to be charged every night.
Very chunky phone.

+ the phone is good for usinge the internet and it quie stylish

- i have'nt yet worked out how to use the bluetooth so i cant sync with other phones to send music etc.

+ It is an excellent phone.

- Battery life is poor.
Phone jack would be useful.

+ Google integration

- no A2DP

+ Design, free apps

- Battery life is shocking!!!!!!!!!

+ Stunning phone, everything is pretty much perfect except the battery life.

- Battery life

+ keyboard, gmail integration, desktop, marketplace, wifi, internet

- battery life is not great but charges quickly

+ Generaly a very good well equiped phone. With all you should ever need.Love the ease of use

- Would have liked the keyboard to have a brighter illumination & to light up whenever its open. Also would have liked a touch screen keypad for ease of replying to texts

+ as above

- bluetooth not working yet to transfer files

+ Touch screen, internet use.

- Very poor battery life, poor cam

+ Nice to phone to look at, lightweight, browsing experience is good.

- Email reception is not good, sometimes no notifications, unable to delete emails from trash, using the delete email feature just does not work, camera mediocre.

+ Internet, integration with google

- eats batteries

+ easy to txt, its cool look

- Camera is Shockingly naff
The messeging is a bit pants
Bluetooth does NOT work at all!
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