[Lancaster] Android G1 phone?

[Mike Dent]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lancaster-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:lancaster-
> bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Wayne Ward
> Sent: 21 March 2009 19:24
> To: Lancaster LUG
> Subject: Re: [Lancaster] Android G1 phone?
>
> 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
>

Thanks for the comments guys. Looks like the phone will do most of the stuff I want and then some.
Shame about the battery though :(

I see they are bringing a G2 out on Vodafone next month, only a virtual keyboard though, which is bad in my opinion.

Mike


> 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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> Wayne
>
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