HTC G1 Reviews-Good job but still have to improved

After a month when the HTC G1 was first announced, now the first mobile phone that implement Google Android was hit the market since last week. This probably the second biggest event in the mobile industry for the year (the biggest event might be the release of Apple iphone 3G). Thus, you can see people queues up early at the morning just to be the one who is be the first to get G1.

The HTC G1 was used to call as HTC Dream but eventually G1 is the name. But it is confusing that somebody calls its as T-mobile G1 (because T-mobile is the exclusively network provider), Google G1 (because of it is Google first Android phone) or HTC G1 ( HTC is the G1 manufacturer). However, no matter what it name is, the mobile platform-Google Android is focus point for most of the mobile phone geeks. And it has been tagged as the most potential iphone killer by some people. It is really an iphone killer? Let’s see what other people say about it.

CNET editors’ review
The T-Mobile G1 features a full QWERTY keyboard, 3G support, Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth. The Google Android operating system offers good integration with Google applications as well as access to the Amazon MP3 Store and YouTube. As more applications become available, the G1 will also become a more powerful smartphone for all types of users.

We were impressed by the snappy performance of the smartphone. The G1 was very responsive during our testing period, and we didn’t experience any system freezes or crashes. The T-Mobile G1 has a rated talk time of 5 hours and up to 5 days of standby time. We are still conducting our battery drain tests, but will update this section with a full range of results. Anecdotally, on an average day of using the phone, Web, GPS, and multimedia applications, we noticed that the battery life dropped anywhere from 40 to 50 percent. According to FCC radiation tests, the G1 has a digital SAR rating of 1.11 watts per kilogram.

Paperstreet blog
This is a great first phone for Google and Android. I will definitely want to check out the G2 phone. The Android system shows promise, so long as Google can sign up developers to their cause. Suprising that with Google’s billions that they could not devote more resources to the applications. However, until email is fixed, I would consider this not a true Smartphone, but rather a mobile web phone. It’s great at the web, its great at being a phone, but not-so-great at the email part. I would not recommend this for anyone who needs email on a daily basis that is not tied to Gmail. I would recommend this to anyone who wants a great phone, great touch screen, maps, GPS, the web, IM and the promise that applications will come to fix the email and other shortcomings.

Telegraph.co.uk
The G1 is Google’s first steps down the long road of mobile phone development. It’s a better than expected debut, but it’s still not quite enough to dethrone the iPhone.
Perhaps when sleeker, more design-focused Android-based handsets hit the shops – LG and Samsung have both already said they will be launching devices next year – we will really see how much potential the “Google phone” has. Until then, the G1 offers a solid introduction to the joys of Android, and provides some tantalising glimpses of the platform’s future.
The sky’s the limit for mobile phones it seems, and, with time, Android could very well be out of this world.

Pcmag.com
Call it the T-Mobile G1.0. The first-ever Google Android smartphone is a solid initial effort that, given an open development platform, will grow with time. It’s missing a bunch of key features right now—like a decent media player and support for corporate e-mail, for instance. But the G1, manufactured by HTC, is a quality phone with few bugs, and given the open nature of Android, I’m confident that more features are on the way. This makes the G1 a good choice for anyone who wants an expandable phone and is interested in the future of mobile communication.

Engadget.com
At the end of the day, however, this isn’t about the hardware, and really never was. The story here is Android and what it promises… though doesn’t necessarily deliver on at first. Like any paradigm shift, it’s going to take time. There is tremendous potential for this OS on mobile devices — it truly realizes the open ideals laid out by Google when they announced this project. The only problem seems to be the stuff they either left on the back burner, cutting room floor, or hoped would come from that exciting, untapped world of open source developers. While there’s plenty to praise in this phone, there’s a lot more that’s missing — and some of those missing elements are what we consider to be core components of a device in the G1’s class.

Shortcomings aside, though, you’re still buying into one of the most exciting developments in the mobile world in recent memory. When you put the G1 up against, say, a Sidekick LX, it seems like a no-brainer for T-Mobile customers looking for a powerful QWERTY device — especially at $20 less. You don’t need to be a cutting-edge mobile geek or a pundit to do that math. When facing off with platforms like the iPhone and Windows Mobile devices, it holds its own, but has a lot of ground to cover before it’s really making the competition sweat. Still, if you’re just excited to be a part of a platform that’s likely going to be around for a very, very long time, the G1’s a totally reasonable day-to-day device to make it happen, and we expect some pretty great things from this corner of the market down the road.

Computershopper.com
Unfortunately, the G1 has some minor first-generation shortfalls. For instance, there’s no 3.5mm headphone jack for use with most headphones on the market, and there’s no way to sync your contacts and calendar with your PC directly—you must rely on cloud computing. MP3s and photos can be synced between the phone and a PC or Mac via drag-and-drop. Despite the few complaints and first-generation glitches, however, Android is a promising platform that we’re excited to see on other handsets, and the G1 itself should be on top of every T-Mobile customer’s list.

Apparently people has given the positive response over G1 but it is still has many things got to be improved. Or maybe we can count on the next Google Android phone to overcome the existing problem in G1. Perhaps, it would be the Motorola version of Android phone.