CrackBerry Kevin on the T-Mobile G1

[mlief]

Bottom line from watching this review and others on the G1 is that it's the Android OS that truly has users excited. The hardware itself is nice but not enough to push someone to move from the phone they are comfortable with. However, I have not seen a single review where the user was not anything but excited about the interface and experience.

What phone will be next for Android?

[dannzeman]

TuneWiki is a cool app that displays the lyrics to songs as you listen to them. Kinda neat if you like to sing along with your tunes.
Compare Everywhere is a barcode scanner that looks up the item and compares prices from several retailers. Simply awesome.
AnyCut can be used to create a shortcut to anything on your phone. Like say, a shortcut to text your girl with her number already filled in. Pretty nifty.

[berd]

Originally Posted by mlief

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What phone will be next for Android?

Who ever makes it, I hope it's for At&t

[htc news]

How does the gmail push email compare to exchange? Is it pretty intantaneous?

[devonair]

@htc news: exactly what I need to know, too...

One of the other reviewers pointed out that email hitting his Gmail account will show up on a Blackberry faster than on his G1. From personal experience, my gmail-hosted mail forwarding to a free mail2web account will show up on my WinMo device faster than it will show up in my webmail (or, more exactly, before my Google Notifier app will alert me of new mail). I need a Google-integrated mobile device, but I also need to know my push mail is getting to me as quickly as possible in order to stay on top of important business correspondence. Weird that forwarding to an Exchange or BIS service so far appears to be faster...

[rwbarnes67]

Hey Kevin, I converted from a Pearl 8100 to the G1 on November 6th along with my wife, daughter and son.
The learning curve was easier on the rest of the family because they weren't Blackberry users, but I caught on and I love my G1!!!
I highly recommend the TuneWiki app as your music player because it's a beautiful app which downloads lyrics, artwork and will do a video search on YouTube for the video to the song you are listening to. TRY IT OUT!!!!

[kojak]

Kevin, glad to hear that you are enjoying the G1. have you had a chance to try OI Newsreader ? It gets the job done for rss feeds, that is one program I use daily.

[berd]

Originally Posted by Dr. Tyrell

G1: What do you mean I'm not sexy?!

Can we say sexy in the Android forums?

They wouldn't let me register berdinker****le, so I had to go with berd

[CrackBerry Kevin]

Hey Guys,

Thanks for the help. I'll try out some of those apps for sure!

Yeah, the initial review had lots of favorable comments. I think BB users like the look of the android OS, just not necessarily the G1's hardware. I think if you could put Android on a BlackBerry Bold (and keep RIM's push stuff intact) you'd have a lot of happy people.

[rwbarnes67]

Oh My God, Kevin!!!!!

You hit the nail on the head with that one!!!!! I'm not too impressed with the G1 itself, but to have the Android OS on the Bold or Storm would be AWESOME!!!!!