T-Mobile G1 Android Phone, Black (T-Mobile)

Phone Features
The T-Mobile G1's vibrant, high-excellence screen slides open to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard, excellent for communicating together with friends online or utilizing the phone's e-mail, IM and mobile messaging abilities. As another option for accessing the device, the T-Mobile G1 comes equipped together with a convenient trackball for extra precise, one-handed navigation. The 3.2-inch touchscreen has a 320 x 480-pixel resolution and a 65K color depth. The T-Mobile G1's touchscreen interface is distinctive, getting you together with a extra customizable, interactive touch experience. For example, you can set a signature gesture to open the screen (there are 30 million possible combinations). There are in addition different taps for different types of commands--for example, you can use a short touch to launch an application, or a long press on any screen will provide you additional options, similar to this of a right click on a mouse.

The phone has an internal 192 MB RAM/256 MB ROM memory, and it's expandable via optional microSD memory cards up to 8 GB in size (a 1 GB microSD card comes together with the phone).

The hinged screen slides open to reveal keypad and closes to prevent accidental dialing.

Together with Google Maps, Google's groundbreaking maps service, you can instantly view maps and satellite imagery, as well as locate local business and get driving directions, all from the phone's simple-to-use touch interface. The T-Mobile G1 in addition consists of Google Maps Street View, enabling you to explore cities at street-altitude virtually while on the go. Not including taking a step, you can tour a far-away situate as if they were there--standing on the street corner. Even better, the Google Maps aspect syncs together with a built-in compass on the phone--an industry first--to agree to you to view locations and find the way 360 degrees by just moving the phone together with your hand.

Use the G1's 3G and Wi-Fi connection to attach and share images over e-mail and MMS or download music from your favorite web sites, as well as upload and post images to your personal blog.

The G1 features a rich HTML e-mail customer, which flawlessly syncs your e-mail, calendar and contacts from Gmail as well as much other POP3 or IMAP e-mail services. The Gmail application offers features such as dialog view, spam filtering, search, and labels this Gmail users enjoy on their computer while offering new features such as integration together with the phone's contact list. And it multitasks, so you can read a Web page while in addition downloading your e-mail in the background.

It in addition combines Instantaneous Messaging support for Google Speak, as well as AOL, Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Exist Messenger in the U.S., and IM presence lets you to see whether your friends are online, offline, away. The G1 in addition maintains complex topic messaging features, enabling you to effortlessly flag, delete or move groups of messages and keep track of group dialogs throughout threaded topic messaging. The Google Calendar app on the G1 syncs together with the Web-based version, so any event this you add to your phone will show up on the Web-based Google Calendar (and vice versa).

Other features contain:

• 3-megapixel camera together with autofocus for still photos
• Video recording and playback
• Digital audio player together with four categories (Artists, Albums, Songs, and Playlists) and support for MP3, M4A (iTunes AAC, DRM-free), AMR, WMA (8), WAF, and OGG Vorbis
• Use digital audio songs as ringtone
• Bluetooth version 2.0+EDR together with the following profiles: HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication earpieces), A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control)
• Wi-Fi networking (802.11b/g)
• Messaging: e-mail (IMAP/POP3/SMTP), instantaneous messaging, SMS topic, MMS photo
• Voice-recognition
• USB 2.0 connectivity together with USB mass storage ability

Vital Statistics
The T-Mobile G1 together with Google weighs 5.6 ounces and measures 4.6 x 2.2 x 0.7 inches. Its 1150 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5 hours of speak time, and up to 130 hours (5+ days) of standby time. It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies as well as the 1700/2100 MHz HSDPA 3G frequencies.

Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Do you have to have a Google account to use T-Mobile G1?
A: Yes, clients must log into the phone utilizing a Google account login when they first use the device. One time you do log into T-Mobile G1 utilizing a Google account, your Gmail and Google Calendar will all sync to your phone getting secure, up-to-date access to your personal information. If you don't already have an account, the startup process will walk you throughout creating one. Creating a Google account is free.

Q: Do clients want a voice and/or data plan to use T-Mobile G1?
A: Yes, when you buy T-Mobile G1, you must add one of two T-Mobile G1-specific data plans to their account. This is similar to other all-in-one devices we propose like the T-Mobile Sidekick or the T-Mobile Shadow. Clients must in addition have a voice plan.

Q: Is the G1 compatible together with your HotSpot @Home service?
A: No. Unlimited HotSpot Calling (formerly named T-Mobile HotSpot @Home) is not integrated in the T-Mobile G1, although the device can browse the Web over high-speed wireless connections counting Wi-Fi and our 3G network.

Q: Are there any advantages to utilizing Gmail on the device versus another type of personal (POP3 or IMAP) account?
A: Yes. Afterwards first logging into their Google account, you will have all your Gmail, Google Contacts, Calendar and Speak data automatically synchronize together with the phone. Anything you do on the phone together with these products will seconds later become available on the computer and vice versa. If you were to ever lose their phone, their information will still be available and flawlessly synchronize together with a replacement G1. You will in addition benefit from push e-mail and calendar alerts (this is in addition available for the multi-headed e-mail customer). Finally, Gmail's contacts are synchronized automatically together with the phone's contact list.

Q: What is the "search from everywhere" aspect?
A: "Search from everywhere" offers clients the capability to do contextual searches. T-Mobile G1 has a hard key on the QWERTY keyboard this you can touch in order to begin a search inside any application you are in. For example, if you are in your contact list and hit the search key, the device will search your contact list. If you are in your e-mail and you hit the search key, the device will search your e-mail. You can in addition begin a search inside every application throughout a search option inside the application.