June 2009
1 post
November 2008
6 posts
pining for the fjords
This is odd - I’ve had a G1 for a little over a week - and I’m generally not loving it. Now its a great start for a platform - but the hardware is poor - battery life makes itunreliable as a medium use handset (forget heavy use). At least you can carry a spare (not currently available though - other than dodgy ebay ones). For me the G1 and N96 are two very very different phones. If...
speed test.
I’ve been getting really good 3G though t-mobile - WAY better than o2. So i thought i would test it on the train home - the harshest of mobile environments. I kept getting 900 - 1500 KBPS!! wtf! though oddly it was reporting wifi - even though there was no wifi connection and the 3G <-> thing was flashing during the tests.
my battery was quite low at this point too. The G1 cant make a...
Love Hate
Ewan at Mobile Industry Review has posted his 16 things I Like about the G1 and i pretty much agree with him. I haven’t been as excited about a new device like this since the original iPhone. I could probably add on another 16 things i Like too. But instead ill list the negatives.
Battery life - par for the course - and what you pay for in terms of OS speed, great 3G speed and lovely big...
October 2008
12 posts
battery life
Well it was always going to be an issue. Batteries also need a few charge cycles to ‘condition’ - but at the moment its very bad. I had about 80% charge when i left home this morning - did my usual usage - listened to mp3s, read emails, read some tweets via twidroid etc. when i got into work it was at 24% less than an hour later!!!
I’m loving the software - but battery life...
