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

+ i love the open source i think that is a fantastic concept,i also love the look and and the slide out keypad and also the trackerball and the general ease of use of the whole phone there are a few bugs but they will be sorted out i'm sure.

- no flash for the 3.2 mega pixel camera, and the battery aint fantastic but since the last update it has gotten better and no flash player for the net but as i believe they are in the middle of sorting this out and that will make this phone for me. but the good points outway the bad and overall this phone is fantastic and recommend it to every one.

+ way too many to mention!!!

- you cant get a sound to let you know when you get a text message

+ very easy to use, great features, light weight, and a great screen

- the only downside its its battery life

+ LOTS OF FEATURES, LOADS OF FREE ANDROID SOFTWARE APPS TO DOWNLOAD

- battery life

+ Large screen, large number of features, an extremely useful Marketplace for new applications.

- Battery life is quite low, especially if you phone alot. Alarm won't work if phone is switched off.

+ It is a very well designed phone and easy to use and navigate around. The Android system is open source so hopefully people will begin creating great applications for this phone that fix some of the annoying points about it.

- The battery life is very poor if you have the Wi-Fi and 3G activated. Also the lack of Exchange Server for emails is a bit of a pain.

+ Cannot single out a single feature - overall the phone is just fab! The fact that it will always be up to date due to the Android O/S is a huge selling point.

- Need I say more - you already know the battery is terribly underpowered for this phone - if you put power hungry components in PLEASE make sure the battery is up to it - dont just say to people "if you switch everything off it'll last for days" !!! People just dont use the phone that way otherwise whats the point in having it!

+ This is the ideal phone for web-browsing and emailing on the go. The full QWERTY keyboard makes writing longer emails and text messages a breeze. The fast internet connection (pages load in around 10s on 3g) makes browsing the internet quick and easy, other features like wifi and gps are a useful bonus.

- As with all new smartphones the battery life can be a little limited, when used sensibly though (e.g. wifi and gps turned off when not in use, can be turned back on in seconds) I generally need to recharge it once every two days.

+ qwerty keyboard is very good,the unit is light and easy to use with few buttons to go wrong.Screen is large and navigation is simple.

- Drains the battery very quickly, email set up is a bit techy and not easy to understand.

+ It's great to be able to sync my gmail and calendar without going through third party software.

- Not being able to be able to copy and paste between functions

+ Really good for web browsing and emails, keypad is small but not creating difficulty. Easy to make calls and a very user friendly phone. Brilliant.

- The battery life is not great but that's the only downside to the phone.

+ Its very to use straight away! I didn't need to look at any instructions on how to operate the phone, it was so easy to use it and find what I wanted to do.
The apps to download are great too! Again, very easy to use and either fun or useful.
Using the internet is very easy too. Its actually faster than my pc which is a bit old, so I'm on the internet using my phone more than the pc now!

- The only 2 bad points about this phone are the battery life and camera.
The battery lasts long enough if you don't use it much but for a phone designed around the internet, its a bit low on battery life.
The camera is pretty good unless its dark. There is no flash and even if the area is just getting dark, the picture is very hard to see. Its fine during the day though or with a light on, but I can't take pictures when I'm out at a club with mates.

+ the many excellant features including the web browser and maps already built into the phone

- it is not possible to connect with bluetooth to any other phone, i have tried several different phones with friends and so far have found none acceptable by my phone.

+ great interface and really easy to use, great that you can get apps for free of market and ringtones and wallpapers for free is a bonus.
touch screen is brilliant and the phone is very responsive and quick at doing things.

- only 2, poor battery life and no full voice guided satnav!

+ Very simple to use. Excellent email & calendar sync. Good screen, websites are easy to view.

- The screen backlight appears to eat into the battery life. Positioning the cursor in text boxes or whilst browsing with the button or finger can sometimes be a bit frustrating.

+ Permanently online, keyboard is nice to use.

- Battery life, battery life, and battery life!

+ very feauture-rich and communicative. great software.

- battery-hungry, quite heavy.

+ easy to use and being connected to the internet at all times means you can find things on the net very quickly.
the feel of the phone and the weight is excellent its not too shiney and the weight it enough to let you know its there but not too much if carrying in your pocket
Daytime picture are really good quality

- the battery life is very short but thats probably because the phone is always connected to the internet.
the camera does not have a flash so dusk and evening the pictures is not very good and the same with indoor pictures.

+ I like this phone ability to be used as a web browser, GPS, aswell as your normal everyday phone.
The design of the handset is trendy and quite compact and light in weight.
I also like having a flip open keyboard.

- the main two problems are one i believe you must know the battery life is very low if you are using it other features eg web browsing, gps, music player sometimes under 2 hour on a full charge.
The second point is the speaker and if they are week how come no adapter was made avalible so it could be used to plug in a 35mm jack like sony ericson did with there headphone set

+ Open Source. Given time this phone will be best there is without a doubt

- Battery life on the G1 at the moment isnt great. give it time though updates should sort that

+ I have been a fan of HTC for several years. This particular HTC phone loaded with the Google Android software has surpassed anything I had experienced with other phones. I am able to organise myself with ease, just a stroke of my finger or a stroke of the trackball. The bonus is T-Mobile provided a free 8GB SD card, so downloading music and applications is great. In addition the availibility of many Android applications makes the user experience effortless!

- I am very disappointed with the battery life and the weight of the phone. I would have hoped that the 21st century and all its potential could have provided better use of materials to reduce the weight and increase the battery. The battery seems to last approximately 24-30 hours on a good day and much less with active use.

+ QWERTY keyboard makes life SO much easier when texting - I'll never go back to a phone with a standard number-pad. Web-browsing is great too, as is e-mail on my phone. They are both the sort of things that you don't think will be that good - until you get them! Now I wouldn't be without the web and access to my e-mails on the move.

- The battery life is *a lot* less than my old phone (there's a price to pay for all these extra features, I suppose). Having said that, it easily lasts the day, but I'm not sure it would last two, so you *have* to make sure you charge it every night. The camera is a little bit of a disappointment as well. I've come from a phone with a 2 mega-pixel camera, with flash and zoom, to a 3.2 mega-pixel with no flash or zoom. Frankly, the flash and zoom made the old one better. Sorry, but it's true. Also, the software could do with some work. My biggest gripe is that you are currently (as far as I can work out) unable to choose a tone of your own for text messages. Thus, I've had a particular tone that I've used for the last several years and now I can't use it because the G1 can't do it. It's a silly oversight that I'm sure will get fixed by a software update soon. But until then, it's annoying.

+ Overall a very good phone.

- Limited Bluetooth connectivity, lack of PC synchronisation and no separate headphone port.

+ internet

- no blue tooth - no flash on camera - doesnt accept hotmail e mail address - cant save images thats been sent - complicated to usenot idiot proof

+ open source, many features, qwerty keyboard

- battery, camera

+ The browser is very easy to use.
The keyboard is easy to type on, even for someone with big fingers.
The marketplace for downloading new applications.

- Battery life - if you are a heavy user you will need to charge the phone twice a day, although if JUST using it as a phone the battery lasts a decent amount of time.
Headphones - the headphones that come with the G1 are awful. I bought an adapter so that I could use my own headphones, and the sound quality then is very good.
No headphone socket - which means you can't charge the phone and listen to music at the same time as they both use the same connector.

+ The G1 soon becomes more than a mobile phone. It becomes a personal assistant, offering you help in a remarkable number of situations. "Where am I?", "How do I get to..?", "What are my friends up to?", "What's going on in the world?", "What's does this mean...?" On top of that, if you can't get entertainment out of the G1 within a few finger swipes, you're really not trying. The music and games and video are a given. Seamless integration with Youtube is super-neat. I love the applications that grab your podcasts for you in the background and serve them up, all in order. I love the way it will update my Twitter, and let my closest friends and family know where I am via a map on my Facebook page. I love the way it automatically turns off my ringtone when I get in the vicinity of my workplace, and switches over to wi-fi when I get home. The G1 is a great companion to have around.

- The battery. Ugh. All that stuff has to come at a price, and you can't run GPS, browse the web and perform all that... magic... without it eating away at your power reserves. If you don't go silly, you can run for a full day without a charge. If you're going to leave the GPS on, you'll be topping up by lunchtime. It charges up again quickly, though.

+ The market place is fantastic with loads of brilliant (and some not so brilliant) apps for download. The GPS/Google Maps works fantasticly and the integration with Google is great.

- You MUST have a googlemail account to use the full functionality of the phone (Not a major bad point but may be a deterant to some people). Battery life is, however, shocking if you want to use all the features (Wi-Fi, GPS) for long periods.

+ the google android GUI is a serious challenger to apple/windows/symbian os. There is scope for the marketplace to develop as the gps-related apps have the potential to be a marketleader.

- the handsfree kit is just awful with a lack of descent sound, and it is difficult to put a better kit in its place due to the deliberate design of the phones jack. the style of the handset is cheap and bulky and looks more like a prototype rather than a consumer product. the transfer of music files and video files is awkward and a real pain far outweighing the benefits of it. The interchangeable memory is clumsy and at 2gig for a multimedia handset is far too small. the battery life is not too good either. the slide-out qwerty keyboard is unneccessary and adds to much bulk with the touchscreen interface ok, but has the potential to be developed. a better handset is required to utilise the android GUI to help it become a sucess.

+ keypad ease of use

- battery life needs improving for more hours of browsing n also using da phones functions

+ I love the functionality of the G1, its so easy to use with 3 input methods. The internet is, well, the internet, not a skimmed down low fat version it's just the internet fully functional wherever you are. The android marketplace is brilliant, 100's if not 1000's of apps and games.....FREE!!!.

- battery life could be better but i guess with so much technology at your fingertips it's to be expected, also the lack of flash limits some of the internet. also the inability to run applications from your SD card means you run out of space quickly, and have to select the apps you most use and delete the rest. picture messaging and video capture should come as standard on such a high tech phone also but i still rate this over my old N95

+ Open Source software allows a wide variety of easily accessible software applications. The keyboard is suprisingly responsive as is the touchscreen. Web browsing is fast and the browser experience is very good.

- The phone is slightly larger than I woud like. The battery life when surfing is not as good as I would like.

+ It's google. It's synchronised with everything else google. Awesome!

- Battery life is poor if used excessively. No worse than iPhone though.

+ Very versatile and easy to use for a non gadget using oldie like me.So much more to discover.

- Battery life can be quite short when using some applications.Sometimes find touch screen too sensitive and navigates away too easily without wanting it to.Still a good phone though,just need to get used to its ways.

+ Lots of good applications.

- Poor battery life, dismal camera, awful Bluetooth support, relatively immature system (e.g. can't re-order application icons).

+ It is easy to use, looks nice and is great for people who use web n walk

- It is only really a good phone for people who want to use the internet. Other features fall short compared to many phones.

+ easy to use qwerty keyboard
fast browsing speeds
free open source applications

- Battery life
no bluetooth connection to other phones to share files
no video recording
lack of flash player
lack of flash for camera

+ It's amazing phone, you can easily use it as laptop with a lot of functions and the best thing about this phone is android. Android market is evolving all the time and it brings many useful applications. Really this is the best phone I've ever had. Highly recommended.

- Battery life - but you can change it for a bigger one (2400 mAh) and then this phone is ready for journey with GPS turned on all the time. Oh and camera isn't great, but it's enough to take some pictures.

+ This is literally the best phone I have ever bought. There are lots of free applications and games to download and its so easy to do.
Im never bored when waiting as there are so many things on the phone that I can play.
I don't even get lost as I can find my Location with the GPS.

- The Battery life isn't that bad when you consider the amount of time spent using the phone for things other than texting and calls. It will last a day or two with heavy usuage, I charge mine every night. If you get into that habit you won't have a problem.

+ can use email and facebook

- the batterey has short span needs charging quite often even when i have done power manager

+ design, easy to operate, wealth of apps, good browsing and email capabilities.

- Battery life is poor (but then it is set up for browsing and email)

+ the product is a great and unique design and very handy for surfing the internet. i love the key board as its much easier to txt and email .

- the battery life is too short like 1hr maybe and it doesnt play loud wen playing music from it.

+ sooo many applications to download.

- cant save numbers easily, camera not great and does not take videos

+ Love the Android platform - very easy to use with good applications and the promise of even better ones to come. The user interface is slick and stylish, everything works and it has taken much less time to learn this 'phone's functionality than any other handset I've owned - the whole thing is very intuitive and I've only had to refer to the manual a couple of times. Very impressed.

- Battery life could be better, but it's a fair swap - I'm happy to put up with the short battery life in exchange for the overall excellence of this handset.

+ Very easy to use, lots of greate application and games I can download for free from the "Market", G1 is really good for web browsing and email. I think the keyboard is very comfortable in use. Landskape wallpapers are lovely, that is something else - it just like G1 has 3 screens. Interface (software) works beautifuly, without any problems at all!!

- Camera isn't too good and organiser (calendar) doesn's work as simple as I thought. Music - sound quality could be better and there is no synchronisation with others mobile phones - bluethoot doesn't work like that. Battery life very short but it charges very quickly.

+ key board, pivot screen, web browsing, email, notifications for things other than texts and calls

- freezes on inbox, very short battery life, feels like it could be easily broken

+ Very fast internet access and email. Nice screen and overall design.

- You cannot sync with Outlook etc for your contacts - only Google Mail. However since I moved everything over to Google (and this was a pain!), I have found the contact directory and email service far better.

+ Andriod

- Bad battery life and sound quality, no video cam

+ Excellent Android platform with loads of features already. Definitely better bet than blackburry and iphone. Good to have touchpad, scroll and QUERT. Excellent for brousing especially you tube and telegraph features are great. Live streaming radio and audio is very good. Syncronization of contacts and calender is a very good idea. Virtually, it does everything for me.

- Still very much in infancy. My calender keeps closing n number of times. Battery life is horrible, needs charging atleast 3-4 times a day!! Camera is not user-friendly and there is no flash.

+ good fun browsing apps market

- wi-fi still seems bit rusty, not had much luck with gps yet as well

+ very impressed with the web browsing, call quility is clear and the qwerty keyboard is very easy to use.
works great as a sat nav with the gps enabled.

- has some problems when processing transactions through the net, paying bills etc.
E-mail software has some problems, cannot forward numbers or texts on to others.
Cannot save individual texts.
Recieving picture messages doesnt work like a normal phone and i've not been able to view pictures sent to me. Also sending pictures doesnt work either.
The battery life is very limited, needs charging once a day.

+ T-Mobile G1 / HTC Dream Very responsive, lots of applications and new ones are easy to install from the marketplace.
Good design, 'navigation nipple' is backberry style and is very easy to use, also it can be 'pressed' to select something. It isnt bogged down with loads of T-mobile applications like other HTCs sold under the MDA brand (WM6 devices)
Overall very happy with device

- Battery life - needs to be charged everyday. however the upcoming update Cupcake is amongst other things supposed to increase battery life
No Video recording - as above the next update is supposed to introduce this
No on screen keyboard - for quick messages this would be good, again as above an update will have this in soon
Exchange server sync - after switching from a WM6 HTC I do miss this, but i guess the iPhone didnt have it at release so we'll just wait and see!

+ Internet is brilliant, fast and easy to use. All the applications are fantastic, looks really nice. I'm really pleased with it.

- The camera is AWFUL.

+ The fact that it's on an open source platform, as a developer myself it's exciting to experience this.

- The hardware is a little awkward and the lack of a standard headphone socket is not ideal.

+ Brilliant phone, texting is easy with the qwerty keypad. Email, web browsing and sat nav in one phone- brilliant. Highly recommended.

- battery life, but i suppose thats because of all the features the phone supports

+ Fantastic features, interface and touch screen. Without doubt, living in the cloud is the way forward and I'm far more organised than ever before thanks to instant synchronisation and the abundance of useful applications in the market.

- I guess this depends on usage but battery life drops considerably (as you would expect) once you play a few games or use the GPS etc. At least with the G1 the battery is replaceable so it wont be long before longer lasting batteries are available.

+ Very easy to use, lovely keyboard, FANTASTIC Google map system, it saved me the other day when I got lost (and I am not good with maps)!
It connects to WIFI very easily, I normally don't like touch phones, but this is wonderful! Very responsive I found.

- Battery life, battery life, battery life... Otherwise, excellent!

+ had the phone almost a month,still find or download a new feature every day,everything seems self explanatory,havent even needed the manual,sat nav which worked as well as a friends tom tom,basically the whole package,thanks.

- initially the battery life,but once conditioned and i bought a car charger its all good.

+ Internet..audio quality..keyboard...

- Battery..no voice chat facility..

+ Its all integrated in one device. Brilliant convergence.

- Maybe complicated to those who have education below A levels standard.

+ great operating system amazing online features

- poor batery life and camera

+ At first glance the G1 would seem to be a contender to the iPhone's dominance, but after using it for 2 weeks it totally surpasses Apple's handset. For those willing to put in a little extra effort getting to know the Android OS, the G1 is unbeatable for functionality. With a full QWERTY keyboard, trackball, large touchscreen and GPS, there is very little that the G1 doesn't do better than the iPhone and the push email for googlemail accounts might turn the heads of a few blackberry users.

- The lack of a pdf viewer is a major oversight and even with the power manager app installed (an essential download) battery life is very short. There is no 3.5mm jack socket, which means you are tied to using the provided headphones, which are terrible. The option of an on-screen keyboard for text messaging would be handy, but now I'm just being picky. Oh, and if anyone can get a picture out of the camera that isn't blurred, please tell me how.

+ This product is good for picking up your messages wherever you are but you have to make sure you sign out properly. The keyboard is easy to use and operation of phone is easy once you have used it a few times. One main problem I find with this product is the ringtone volume, it doesn't appear to be loud enough, even when set on highest capacity, when walking in the street and vibration is not enough to feel it.

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+ I'm a nerd.. for me the good points are the open platform and developement options. while things aren't perfect now - the device has a lot of potential

- battery life is pretty lousy... I'm happy as i'm used to smartphones, but for general public the battery life would seem really terrible

+ This phone is very good and has a lot of potential, I prefer it over other phones because of the keyboard which to me makes it stronger than the new G2 phone.

- The battery really is quite poor I have to charge the phone every day and I have it on low power settings. The main problem though isT-Mobiles network which is constantly saying No Service, and I live in London!

+ design,colour,organizer

- camera dont show good picture( too Dark not focusing very well) could be smaller, when you use the dailer you have to open up the phone to cancel if you hit the wrong key.

+ Great design, great features, great for web browsing, great all round device!

- Volume button is on the bottom right where my fingers rest when holding phone open, forever having to turn it back up, a small price to pay for such a great product

+ The web browsing is the best i have seen on a phone, alot bettere then the iphone 3G
Music player is good but needs dedicated buttons for it on the phone.

- The battery. It needs to last longer.
No video function. Would be a better phone if it hade one.

+ web browser and google maps like the touch screen and the applictions

- the battery last about 2 hours if u do anything on it so constant charging required plus can play videos or mpgs

+ excellent for web browsing and easy to use. like having colour choice for the handset too

- battery needs charged daily, not a huge issue but not as good as some other handsets

+ Excellent phone, with great web browser, and seamless synchronisation to gmail and google calendars, loads of great free apps. The slide out keyboard is also fantastic.

- Battery life could be better but that may be because I can't stop playing with it! also a flash on the camera would make it practically perfect.

+ keyboard is cool , the web is brilliant , the market for apps cool,

- Battery dont last a day, cant save pics that people send to me , sometimes phone does things itself ? and roller ball sticks when gets grubby ! no emotions to add to texts, camera poor no video option , cant send anything by bluetooth or recieve?

+ Amazing device for first launch, software bugs are being ironed out quickly via updates , email and web browsing is amazing, some really good software available free of charge online

- Battery life when 3g/wifi/bluetooth enabled

+ very easy to use especially browsing though need to increase memory to improv browser

- when using internet battery life seems to go very quickly

+ the email intergration is what this phone is made for. I find the way my googlemail delivered jut like my txt's is excellent, the web browsing is superb the only bad thing is the poor battery life, but apart from that i cannot fault the phone at all

- Battery Life........ yes thats it.

+ The phone is obviously heavier and bigger than a 2G phone with no keyboard or touch screen, but not to its disadvantage, and is really well designed, comfortable, and easy to use. It's very fast to respond, and context menu very organised; I even find the keyboard easy but then do have small fingers. Quality of all aspects excellent, maps particularly impressive, and the syncing with gmail so useful I'm already hooked. Would recommend it to anybody, but I've only had it a week...

- I've put battery life as bad, as I don't think it lasts three days without needing charging. However, given the functionality and use it goes through (especially as it's new and I'm playing a lot!), I don't think this is too bad, and it certainly charges very quickly. There doesn't seem to be predictive text which a friend asked me about; I'm not sure I'd want it with a keyboard, but if you're used to it and not a fan of typing, this might slow you down. When you're on the phone and are asked to 'press 1 for option x', you need to open the keyboard to press 1, but maybe I've just not discovered the shortcut for getting the touchscreen numbers back whilst on a call.

+ Too many to mention.

- Android needs a PDF reader.

+ Easy to use & live with. Great design, with bright screen. The markplace is a fantastic idea with lot of useful bits of software.

- Battery life, with all options ie GPS it drain easily within a day. Get a in car charger you will need it.

+ Good screen, great web browsing

- The camera is so bad its useless.

+ Very advanced, full of features, good looking,

- The navigation is dreadful for me, you do not get the touchscreen feature to function very easily and sometimes not at all then you have to go to the'track ball' that device is very slippery and is easy to move but not easy to 'pin down' to make it work. Maybe I am clumpsy and have a disabledhand but this navigation system, in my opinion could be improved to be more 'accesible for old people with disabilities like me and a love for the latest technology.

+ Great operating system, good applications and design

- If they can sort the battery out they're on to an absolute winner!

+ The one thing above all else that is important about the G1 is the Android Operating System. There are many, many applications available for the OS that the usability and function of the phone are presently unrivalled in the mobile world.

- The battery life is very short when you have GPS and other applications running. Sometimes the life can be as low as 6 hours.

+ Excellent for internet, fast and reliable, Good range of features.

- Battery life is really bad while on internet. Cant send mms or connect via bluetooth.

+ mouse keypad and screen

- could be a little slimmer and lighter

+ the best thing is its easy to use.an simple

- its a headache trying to connect it to a usb