HTCsmartphoneLast featured Dec 2019
T-Mobile G1
Worth it if…Worth it, with caveats.
A fascinating piece of history with a surprisingly good keyboard and strong software foundations, but the trackball, screen and camera show how far phones have come.
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- Price when I covered it
- Under £100
- Featured in
- 2 videos · 2018–2019
- Category
- Phones · Concept & rare
What I liked
- Historic first Android phone
- Tactile, clicky keyboard with no input lag
- Satisfying physical keys
- Pull-down notification bar and Gmail integration
- Widget support from day one
What I didn't
- Dated design with slide-out keyboard
- Not better than the iPhone
- Trackball is fiddly, inaccurate and slow
- Only 46% screen-to-body ratio
- Large screen gap causes glare
- Very basic 3.15MP camera with no front camera
In my words
Straight from the video. Tap a timestamp to hear me say it.
“it is fiddly inaccurate and frustratingly slow”
“this phone was the first to have a proper pulldown notification bar”
Every time I covered it
Most recent first, so you can see if my view has changed.
0:00The Ultimate Google Android Comparison.Google's first phone, built like the pre-smartphone era devices, and most would agree it wasn't quite good enough.
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0:04I used the first Android Phone in the World.A fascinating piece of history with a surprisingly good keyboard and strong software foundations, but the trackball, screen and camera show how far phones have come.
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Why it's on these shelves
- Actually innovative
“this phone was the first to have a proper pulldown notification bar”
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