While I wasmore impressed by the T - Mobile G1than I think I ’d be , the list of catches for Android and the headphone are quickly piling up — some that might very well be dealbreakers . top the list , it ’s tightly integrated with your Google report — so tightly that you’re able to only use one Google chronicle with the phone . If you require to switch to another account , you have to do a whole factory reset . Update : T - Mobile has patched up some of them — the 1 GB capis gone , andthey’ll unlock the phone for youafter 90 sidereal day . A Googler told us the workaround they ’ve been employ is using a separate IMAP mail app for their subaltern Gmail history , but that still screws you if you ’ve get calendars on multiple Google accounts — like if you ’ve got a hosted Google Apps account for your site and a personal one , you ’ve sire ta pick one or the other . This is a technical limitation of Android 1.0 , so it should be fixed in the hereafter , but for now , as someone with a work account and a personal one , it definitely hustle . Contacts and Syncing : As advert , there is no desktop syncing app . It ’s all about the cloud — your Google contacts and cal are considered the captain . So if it ’s all on your desktop or god forbird , MobileMe , you ’ve got ta move it over to your Google report . At launching , however it ’ll be able-bodied to do remote syncing , so if you make a modification or download an app on your desktop , your twist will automatically sync up . Still , it ’ll be open for developers to fill this marketplace , as well as the want of Exchange supporting . Whether this is a plus or minus might reckon on how you feel about Google being the masterkeeper of your contacts and info . Video : There ’s no video playback at all right now , except for YouTube . The expectation is that developer will create video playback apps and the requisite reenforcement . That ’s one of those big holeswe worried Googlewould leave to developers to fill . Same story for video recording . Devs can add it in , though we ’ve heard the telecasting quality will calculate much better after Qualcomm ’s TV throttle is released . Hardware Inadequacies : No multitouch on the G1 and there never will be , since the panel itself does n’t support it . However , Googlers tell they expected a full touchscreen gimmick with multitouch in the future . The lack of a headphone shit , though kinda vernacular for HTC devices , is pretty galling , specially for a consumer gimmick . Mini - USB adapters are pestering as hell . sundry : You ’ve obtain ta have an SD card for any variety of music or video playback , once the latter arrive — there ’s no internal storage for media playback . It ’s one of two problems we ran into with Amazon ’s MP3 computer memory , the other being that you’re able to only down tracks over - the - air with Wi - Fi . We ’d like some over-3 G activity . For all of the alternative when it come to navigation , the fact that you have to use the QWERTY keyboard for all school text entry can be annoying , since it involves a good deal of flipping the phone around to type if you ’re navigating vertically . Some onscreen action would be nice , but once again , they ’re will that to developers . Finally , it ’s locked to T - Mobile . A Googler bemoan that as well since it goes against the openness of Android , but said that in the long run , that wo n’t weigh , since there will be a ton of devices . But like everything else , in the meantime , developers can step in and release an unlock app . On the Android market , even . So Android ’s strengths — and weaknesses — really are as much in developer ’ workforce as they are Google , ironware makers and carriers ’ . Update : T - Mobile has confirmedthey will unlock it for you after your account has been active for 90 days , so this is n’t as much of an emergence — not that it was vast ab initio , since devs can and likely will put unlocking apps in the Android Market . Bonus T - Mobile objectionable defect : If you ’re lucky enough to live in one of the markets spit with 3 thousand , after you ’ve used 1 GB of datum , T - Mobile will slow you downto 50Kbps for the rest of the calendar month . That ’s boring than EDGE , which is theoretically capable of 384Kbps , though in real world it ’s closer to 100Kbps . I realise that ’s no doubt due in part to the relative immatureness of T - Mobile ’s 3 G electronic web , but as many times as I had to find out the word “ mobile internet ” and “ future ” today in character reference to this phone , that ’s absolutely ludicrous . Especially when you consider that you ’re paying $ 25 for 3 G information — the iPhone ’s $ 30 design is altogether unlimited , and the speed only drops when AT&T ’s electronic web is sucking a fat one . The conditional relation of this will make themselves more apparent over time as we see more apps dwell the Android market and get a better idea of what they ’re up to of , but it ’s definitely looking like a large - to - critical infliction spot , besides just being annoying as balls . Update : T - Mobile on the face of it realized how horriblethis was , and have backpedaled on the cap . honest to see they ’re listening .
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