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My year with Android

Submitted by Jgmize from Google Reader

Nov 05, 2009

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Now that Google’s Android operating system is appearing on a bunch of new smart phones, it seems like a good time to report on my year with Android on an HTC/T-Mobile G1 phone.

How has it worked as a phone? Call quality and reliability are as good as can be expected on the T-Mobile network. In other words, it works great if you stand on one foot in space L17 in the parking lot of the Swedish Physicians office across the street from T-Mobile’s Bellevue, Washington headquarters. The phone has survived a few drops onto concrete and asphalt surfaces. About 5 percent of the time that the phone rings when in my pocket, I manage to hit the “hang up” button while pulling it out; I wish that it were a flip-phone design. Dialing via voice recognition works remarkably well considering that my phone is hunting through a list of several hundred contacts.

The slide-out keyboard is nice, but the “carpal tunnel hump” on the right side should be patented by hand surgeons. Will the next dictator of the world please require mobile phone QWERTY keyboards to be freely accessible fr

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