Comments on: T-Mobile delivers the G1 (aka Android) phone

You can think of it as a touch-screen smartphone, plain and simple, or as Google's first big step into the telecommunications sector.

[Perry_Clease]

What is that little thing hanging out of the lower left corner? It kind of looks like a lever, but maybe it is a port cover.

[cortneyj]

It is the slot for the SD card. You can only open it if the phone is slid to the open position.

[Perry_Clease]

Thanks.

[razor.rodriguez]

OK, Now where are all those people that made a big fuss when Microsoft integrated IE with Windows? If you ask me, this is even more blatant. I mean, Google is an Internet giant, why not mess with them too? They are forcing people to use their search engine.
I'm just being facetious. Just pointing out how people like to jump on the bandwagon when they see someone picking on the big dog. If you ask me, the whole Microsoft thing was a witch hunt and just plain stupid. Good luck, Google and watch your back. There are some ruthless people out there...

[etshea]

MS charges for its software. Googles is open source. I don't believe google is geting any licence fees for using android.

[durak-]

So Apple has the iphone and Google has the Android. What does Microsoft have again?

The Taurus?

[durak-]

How much does it weigh?

More than iphone?

[bobbrew]

It's not heavy at all. It weighs 1.3 oz more than my HTC T-Mo SDA candy bar phone which is near the limit of smallness for a phone. In fact, I was going to buy a holster for the Android but the SDA holster works just fine. It's a little snug but not bad and will probably prevent the android from falling out if the catch isn't latched.

[bobbrew]

Dialing Phone Numbers From Online News Articles - Here's one trick that I haven't heard about (after hours of reading). I was reading a Newspaper Article on my Android today. There was a line with the phone number and street address to a place I wanted to go. It looked like text and not a link of any kind. I placed my finger on the phone number for more than a second and the next thing I know, the Android is dialing the number. Unbelieveable. I then tried keeping my finger on the address thinking it would give me a map. It did not work but maybe because the city and state were not listed. I'll have to experiment with that.

[storm14k]

Yes it automatically recognizes both phone numbers and addresses in plain text that are not hyperlinked. You can click on a number or address almost anywhere and call or map it based on what you click.

[rcossebo]

Truthfully, I'm really not impressed. I don't like too many things and with the slider, touch screen AND the trackball, well it's just too many things that can break and have problems. That's the reason I like the iPhone or the blackberry. I was looking forward to the NUVIFONE from Garmin, but with all the problems with 3G etc. I think they decided to wait...