T-Mobile G1 review

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February 25, 2009

Posted by: Ashydoodle

"Best thing ever"

What I like:

Everything

What I don't like:

Nothing

Review:

I actually feel like I underpaid for this product. The T-Mobile G1 is absolutely amazing. It beats the iphone by far with looks, applications, sturdiness, and pretty much everything else.

The G1 owns the iphone. Even my boyfriend who has AT&T wishes he could get the G1 or something similar and despises the fact AT&T only offers the iphone. Constantly using a touch screen keyboard gets annoying. They’re not easy to use when you have stubby fingers like a lot of people or girls who have long nail. Having the full keyboard there is so awesome. The keys are just the right size for the tiny millions of nerve endings in your fingers to feel.

There are so many free applications, it's not even fair. If I could only download them all without feeling like it's such a steal every time I probably would. In comparison with the iphone, the T-Mobile G1 basically has all the same applications as iphone and more. The two coolest ones I have found so far the iphone doesn't have is the "ShopSavvy" which allows you to use your camera as a scanner. What's the point, you ask? Well, it looks up the price of the item you scanned in comparison with the store you scanned it in, offers reviews, and the average price you will find locally. It's just awesome. The other application is actually a game. It’s called “Zombie, Run.” The most effective way to play this game is when you’re making you way somewhere in your car. My boyfriend and I had so much fun with this. GPS finds you on Google Maps. You then pinpoint your destination on the map. You have a choice of four different kinds of break outs : “Controlled Outbreak, Early Local Infestation, Late Local Infestation, and Total Pandemic. Then you pick the type of Zombie you want to go against (which also includes the speed of those zombies): Night of the living Dead (2mph), Resident Evil (5 mph), and 28 Days Late (8 mph). You basically try to get to your destination without running into any zombies. They tend to stay on main roads and sometimes like to hang out on your destination, which will require you to get really close to them so that you can lure them away and sneak around really fast.

I can't get over how nice it is. It feels so much sturdier in my hand than an iphone. I had only had the T-Mobile G1 for about two days, went to Best Buy, and they happened to have an iphone on display. I picked it up and felt like I could snap it in half. The G1 is built stronger. My friend from work has an iphone he dropped once on concrete and the screen shattered. I highly doubt that I G1 would just shatter. I’m not going to test it, but I’m almost certain it’s going to take a lot more than an accidental drop on concrete to crack the T-Mobile G1’s screen.