Hands On With HTC G1

T-Mobile and Google have announced the first-ever handset with Google’s new Android operating system. Called the T-Mobile G1, it has both full touch-screen functionality, a QWERTY keyboard, a trackball for one-handed navigation, plus access to mobile web applications like Google Maps Street View, Gmail, YouTube and more. The G1 will be available from October 22 in the US, from early November in the UK, and will roll out across Europe in early 2009.

FULL SPECIFICATIONS

DIMENSIONS 117 x 55.7 x 17.1 mm Weight 158 g

DISPLAY TFT touchscreen, 65K colors

SIZE 320 x 480 pixels, 3.2 inches

RINGTONES :   Polyphonic (40 channels), MP3, WAV,  WMA , custom download

Vibration :    Yes

Phonebook :    Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall Call records Practically unlimited

Card slot :   micro SD (TransFlash)

DATA GPRS :     Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps

HSCSD :      No

EDGE :      Class 10, 236.8 kbps

3G :      HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps

WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g

Bluetooth :      Yes, v2.0, headset support only

Infrared port :      No

USB :      Yes, miniUSB

OS :    Android OS

Messaging :    SMS, MMS, Email,Instant Messaging

Browser :    HTML

Games :    Yes

Colors :     White, Black, Brown

BATTERY :    Standard battery, Li-Ion 1150 mAh

Stand-by :    Up to 406 h

Talk time :    Up to 5 h 20 min

FEATURES

– 192 MB RAM, 256 MB ROM

– Qualcomm MSM7201A 528 Mhz processor

– Full QWERTY keyboard

– Trackball

– Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate

– Handwriting recognition

– Camera 3.15 MP, 248×1536 pixels

– Built-in GPS receiver

– Digital compass

– Document viewer

– Java MIDP 2.0

– Voice memo

– MP3 player

– Built-in handsfree