Google G1- The iphone rival

[GhostMjr]

Looks interesting and i'd rather buy from google than apple. It's exclusively with t-mobile which is a shame as i was a previous customer with them and their signal was poor.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4810954.ece

[DarkAngel]

I have the first generation iphone and im very happy with it so far. I will be very surprised if this does well at all.

[smilodon]

Sounds like another Apple con job but just with a different suit of clothes. On paper it looks good with an open source OS and none of Apples foul vendor lock in crap. Sadly while Google seem happy for me to decide what software I want to use on the phone (being open source) they seem to have decided that I'm best being with T-mobile rather than my operator of choice. So they can politely get stuffed. I'll stick with my Nokia thanks

[Gandalf]

We've just got one of the new HTC Touch Pros at work for test and it's fantastic, far superior screen than the iphone (640x480 on a mobile is stunning) and makes browsing the web real easy.

Also, being windows based there is a whole host of applications for it. I'm going to swap my trusty tytnII in for one of these as the only thing with the tytnII is the screensize (320x240) which makes web browsing tricky. And as I use it for web and email mostly, the larger screen will be fantastic.

It hooks up with our exchange server here at work so my email, contacts, tasks and calendar are automatically synched with exchange using push tech (MS version of blackberry) and it works really well.

The only drawback is the battery life, I can just about get two days out of them, so you do need to get in the habit of sticking it on charge once a day.