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The T-Mobile G1 Touch might, at first glance, just look like yet another bland phone from HTC, but just 5 minutes of usage will convince you that it is much more than that. In fact, it is one of the best phones around.
Starting off with the display of the T-Mobile G1 Touch, it is a tad smaller than that of the iPhone, but it is more crisp and clear than that of the iPhone.
This Google phone will require that you have a Google account before you are able to do anything, including activating the phone for use on the T-Mobile network. Since I wasn’t really on their G-1 plan (which is a 3G and EDGE package which gives me 400 messages free every month), I couldn’t really get the phone activated immediately for this review so I had to get some support from T-Mobile. I didn’t really realize the problem immediately, but only found out about it a couple of days after. Once you have activated the phone, you will be directed to the main screen, which basically has 4 default icons known as Dialer, Contacts, Maps and Browser.
The T-Mobile G1 Touch does disappoint in one sense as the phone is fairly heavy due to the presence of the full – QWERTY keyboard, which can be revealed by sliding it sideways. The colour combination used for the keyboard is quite disappointing because, though the backlight shows up the silver present on the keys, the orange present on the ALT key is barely visible. The problem worsens if you are in a low – light area as you will surely not be able to see the ALT key.
The bundled apps are not so bad. There is an IM, built – in Calendar, web browser, integration with Amazon MP3, mobile YouTube, but the best among them was the Google Maps, which is absolutely amazing.
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