Tuesday, September 23, 2008

T-Mobile's G1 Announced Today

Today T-Mobile officially announced the release of the G1 featuring Google's Android Software in New York this moorning. It will be available on T-Mobile in the US on October 22 for $179 on a two year contract. $399 no contract. There will be a data plan for $25 featuring unlimted data and some messaging and a $30 plan featuring unlimted data and messaging.
The Phone has a 3 megapixel camera, wifi, Amazons Mobile Mp3 store and the Android Market Place.

The phones specs are:
HSDPA 1700 / 2100 plus quadband EDGE
WiFi
3D graphics acceleration
1GB integrated storage plus microSD expansion
3-megapixel camera
Android Market for on-device app purchases
Amazon MP3 app for on-device music purchases
Push Gmail support with full HTML client
Bluetooth (but no A2DP)
Google Maps with Street View
No Microsoft Exchange support
No desktop synchronization -- it all happens over the air

Update: T-Mobile has put a 1 GB cap on data usage for the G1
Update 2: the G1 has no actual headphone port. You will need to use a mini USB adapter to use heahphones with the G1 ... what are we going back into the dark ages!

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