[Lancaster] Android G1 phone?

[Wayne Ward]

I have a G1 the phone is pretty good I have a SSH client installed 
havent looked for a vnc client yet..
You have a app called market place were new apps get added daily which 
is handy - you can seem to get what ever apps you need. The battery life 
is pants though! ive had to turn off bluetooth / wireless / gps 
basically all the stuff i use on the phone!! Although i used the gps in 
the car last week and it worked great! the calendar and conacts sync to 
google calendar and then i sync my google conatcts and calendar with 
thunderbird which all works A1 tasks sync with RTM  and I use a RTM 
client on the G1.  Some of the other apps i use are pocket ebay wifi 
scan and wptogo for blogging to my wordpress. T-mobile has been pretty 
crap and i have a lot of problems with calls were i have had tmobile 
reset the account and im still have small problems - So to sum it up - 
Great phone - some great apps - Crap battery and a crap network.....

Wayne

Sam Barnett-Cormack wrote:
> Mike Dent wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>> I seem to recall some mention of the G1 phone on this list a while back, has anybody got one.
>> If so how do you find it?
>>     
>
> I like it, although there's less pro-quality software than a lot of 
> other, more commercial, smartphones. Google didn't particularly bother 
> with app development, leaving it to the community. The community have 
> responded, but there's a little more quantity than quality.
>
> The integration with google's webapps is great, especially if you 
> already use googlemail and googlecalendar, as the main email app is a 
> googlemail frontend and the calendar exclusively works with google 
> backed calendars. I didn't use all this stuff before I got the phone, 
> and now me and my fiancee both use google calendars, shared with 
> eachother, and find it very convenient. Google calendars can be shared 
> with various desktop apps via custom providers, or via CalDAV.
>
>   
>> Is there any VPN client yet?
>>     
>
> Not sure - no use for it myself.
>
>   
>> Ssh client?
>>     
>
> At least one good one that I use
>
>   
>> Rdp client?
>>     
>
> VNC clients - a couple of them. Not tried it yet, but by the Market 
> ratings, there's one good one and one dubious one.
>
>   
>> What is the t-mobile 3G coverage and speed like round lancaster?
>>     
>
> Speed a little variable around Lancaster, but coverage is pretty much 
> universal everywhere I've been (except the uni Underpass, where it's 
> variable, and near the coolers in M&S).
>
> When the speed is good, it's pretty damn good, and when it's bad it's 
> more fits-and-starts than slow per se.
>
>   
>> How do you find the keyboard?
>>     
>
> I use it purely with my thumbs, as I did my old Nokia E61 (with 
> blackberry-style keyboard). It's fine, although the layout takes a 
> little getting used to. I find their choice of which keys to prioritise 
> (no need for modifier keys) a bit odd, but overall I've had little to no 
> problems.
>
> It'd be nice if the screen had the option of using a stylus, but one 
> gets used to finger-usage. The only badly thought out aspect of this is 
> the screen unlock. It uses a graphical pattern - you trace a path 
> through a 3x3 grid of nodes. Unfortunately, I've found this ends up with 
> a visible trace after a while unless I thoroughly wipe the screen, and 
> that visible trace would make it easy for someone else to guess the pattern.
>
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Sam
>
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