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Android and T-Mobile G1's Five Most Obnoxious Flawsfrom Gizmodo: Top by matt buchanan
While I was more impressed by the T-Mobile G1than I thought I'd be, the list of catches for Android and the phoneare quickly piling up—some that might very well be dealbreakers.Topping the list, it's tightly integrated with your Google account—sotightly that you can only use one Google account with the phone . If you want to switch to another account, you have to do a whole factory reset.
AGoogler told us the workaround they've been employing is using aseparate IMAP mail app for their secondary Gmail accounts, but thatstill screws you if you've got calendars on multiple Googleaccounts—like if you've got a hosted Google Apps account for your siteand a personal one, you've gotta pick one or the other. This is atechnical limitation of Android 1.0, so it should be fixed in thefuture, but for now, as someone with a work account and a personal one,it definitely stings.
Contacts and Syncing: As mentioned,there is no desktop syncing app. It's all about the cloud—your Googlecontacts and cal are considered the masters. So if it's all on yourdesktop or god forbird, MobileMe, you've gotta move it over to yourGoogle account. At launch, however it'll be able to do remote syncing,so if you make a change or download an app on your desktop, your devicewill automatically sync up. Still, it'll be open for developers to fillthis market, as well as the lack of Exchange support. Whether this is aplus or minus might depend on how you feel about Google being themasterkeeper of your contacts and info.
Video: There's novideo playback at all right now, except for YouTube. The expectation isthat developers will create video playback apps and the requisitesupport. That's one of those big holes we worried Googlewould leave to developers to fill. Same story for video recording. Devscan add it in, though we've heard the video quality will look muchbetter after Qualcomm's video accelerator is released.
Hardware Inadequacies:No multitouch on the G1 and there never will be, since the panel itselfdoesn't support it. However, Googlers said they expected a fulltouchscreen device with multitouch in the future. The lack of aheadphone jack, though kinda common for HTC devices, is pretty galling,especially for a consumer device. Mini-USB adapters are annoying ashell.
Miscellaneous: You've gotta have an SDcard for any kind of music or video playback, once the latterarrives—there's no internal storage for media playback. It's one of twoproblems we ran into with Amazon's MP3 store, the other being that youcan only down tracks over-the-air with Wi-Fi. We'd like some over-3Gaction.
For all of the choices when it comes to navigation, thefact that you have to use the QWERTY keyboard for all text entry can beannoying, since it involves a lot of flipping the phone around to typeif you're navigating vertically. Some onscreen action would be nice,but once again, they're leaving that to developers.
Finally,it's locked to T-Mobile. A Googler lamented that as well since it goesagainst the openness of Android, but said that in the long run, thatwon't matter, since there will be a ton of devices. But like everythingelse, in the meantime, developers can step in and release an unlockapp. On the Android market, even. So Android's strengths—andweaknesses—really are as much in developers' hands as they are Google,hardware makers and carriers'. |
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