The wait is over for a few tmobile fans out there. I say a few because as it stands in most cities the G-1 didn't do what some thought it would do. And that is sell out. As it still stands this late evening, at least in Memphis, the g-1 is still available at all 5 stores that I called in Memphis. And reports in other cities seem to be the same. It seems that San Francisco was the biggest turnout of all major cities. They are reporting having over 100 people in their major tmobile store. However, all other reports lines not extending over 10 people and most didn't have lines at all. Maybe this can put on the fact that tmobile really didn't advertise as well as they should have, the state of the economy, or just maybe everyone thinks that there will be a better phone to come out in the near future( G-2 phone maybe). For whatever the real reason I don't think the day went as well as HTC and tmobile hoped. So far the phone has gotten the same theme review, "The phone touch screen is the closest touch screen to attempt to match the iphone to date, but still not as good". As far as the open source of the phone, the general public loves this right now and what it might bring in the future but most tech heads out there question the security and therefore write it off for the ability to go anywhere as big as the iphone because it limits itself to only consumers. But the consumers have a whole different question or concern about the g-1 . On one hand we have reports about a memory leak that slows down the performance of the phone that doesn't show up upon the first couple of uses of the phone. And then we have videos showing the internet to be extremely slow(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEMMpie4BRc) even though the user was getting a good signal. Now I don't know if this ties into the memory leak or not (my guess is that it does) but Cnet turns right back around and shows there video of the G-1 beating the Iphone 3g at pulling a webpage. So which g-1 is the real one? Only time with the user will reveal it. Until then we can only wait patiently for the final word on the true potential of this phone. Stay tuned.
**Update info on Speeds*** per CNET NEWS :
T-Mobile is warning G1 customers that they could get placed into the slow lane if they use more than 1GB of data in a billing cycle.
Engadget spotted the fine print underneath T-Mobile's G1 page on its Web site trumpeting the arrival of the first phone to run Google's Android software. "If your total data usage in any billing cycle is more than 1GB, your data throughput for the remainder of that cycle may be reduced to 50 kbps or less," the company warned.
Now, that doesn't apply to anything you download or upload over a Wi-Fi connection, and may not be much of an obstacle for some users. But if you're like a few folks inside our office--one of whom has used 187MBs in just the past 24 hours on his iPhone 3G--you're liable to hit that speed bump pretty quick. Downloading almost anything on a 50Kbps connection is going to be extremely frustrating.
T-Mobile might have trouble enforcing this cap, but they appear to be putting it in the contract. It's a confusing move, given the trend among carriers toward all-you-can-eat data plans, but could be a defensive maneuver to protect T-Mobile's young 3G network from being overwhelmed by G1 users.
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