T-Mobile G1, the mobile phone from Google
For Digital Future | September 23, 2008
The T-Mobile G1, informally known as the "Google phone", will cost 179 U.S. dollars in a contract of 2 years and will be available in stores in the United States from October 22.
The phone will be marketed by T-Mobile in the United States and has been built by the Taiwanese company HTC. Will be available in Britain in early November and in other European countries in early 2009.
The phone runs the software Android, the open source driven by Google, who is expected to become the dominant operating system in mobile terminals.
The G1 offers many of the features of the iPhone and Research in Motion of the BlackBerry, including a touch screen, keyboard, high-speed Internet, Wi-Fi, e-mail ... You can also run applications like Google Maps.
Amazon.com has announced that it will compete against Apple's iTunes, and that the entire catalog of Amazon MP3 Music Store will be available on the new phone. 6 million songs to choose from the four major record labels. You can only download MP3 files via a Wi-Fi, but you can navigate through the store and preview songs using 3G, but the buying and downloading can only be done with Wi-Fi. The songs are the same price, 89 cents on the dollar unless otherwise noted.
The main features of the T-Mobile G1 are:
- Intuitive user interface and touch screen that slides to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard.
- Trackball for navigation with one hand.
- Three color options in the U.S. - White, brown and black
- One-click contextual search to find relevant information instantly with just one finger.
- Full HTML Web browser and zoom function that enlarges any section of the page simply by clicking on the screen.
- Access to the popular Google applications: Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube and others.
- Google Maps offers information on maps, satellite imagery, information from local businesses and maps for driving, as well as MyLocation to let users know where they are; Google Maps Street View is synchronized with a compass from the phone to allow users to see and navigate through 360 degrees in places simply by moving the phone with his hand.
- HTML e-mail, which synchronizes perfectly the e-mails from the majority of mail services, including Gmail. Displays photos and graphics in the mail.
- ShopSavvy: designed to help people to do comparative shopping.
- BreadCrumbz: creates a visual map using photos, users can create their own routes and share them with friends.
- Amazon MP3 Store (pre-installed on the device) allows people to search the DRM-free, full-track music and MP3 music downloads from Amazon directly to your device via a Wi-Fi
- Instant messaging with support for Google Talk, AOL, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger.
- Camera, 3 megapixels without video capabilities.
- Music player that supports MP3, M4A (iTunes AAC, DRM-free), AMR, WMA, MIDI, WAV and OGG Vorbi
- 1GB MicroSD card pre-installed that can store about 500 songs (the device supports a card up to 8GB)
- Bluetooth
- GPS
- Speech recognition, voice dialing and speakerphone
- GSM / GPRS / EDGE / Wi-Fi and UMTS / HSDPA
- 850/900/1700/1800/1900/2100Mhz
- Up to 130 hours in standby, 5 hours of conversation
- 3.17-inch screen
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