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Martin Hickman and Consumer Affairs Correspondent. The most overrated Disney classics. Everyone else has to wait until next month to pick up a G1 at a retailer or order via the Web. The T-Mobile G1 will be available in the U. Although few details are available such as when exactly it will be available , the AP reports that the new device will be called the BlackBerry Storm and provide RIM with a product that is more competitive in the consumer market with the iPhone and, now, the G1.

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Sign in. Thanks for reading Scientific American. Create your free account or Sign in to continue. As you move the phone around, the accelerometer interacts with the Street View software and will show you all around the area as if you're looking through a movable window.

You can pan around and look all over the place. It is pretty neat, when it works. Buying applications and music is well-implemented and super-easy. The app store will give Apple's a run for its money perhaps lieterally , and Amazon's music store is equally well-designed.

Download status is available through the robust notification feature. There's a small group of icons for this at the left end of the top status bar, which you can swipe down to expand for details. All applications can use this function to alert the user to something that has happened in the background. New alerts can briefly take over the whole status bar to display scrolling text.

Speaking of applications running in the background, Android supports them! Unlike the iPhone, Android is a true multi-tasking OS, so all kinds of 3rd-party true push applications are possible.

The music application supports basic things like playlists, but nothing too advanced. It does not support any kind of DRM whatsoever, which means music purchased from certain sources like iTunes will not play, although with the variety of incompatible DRM schemes on various other phones, this is almost a non-issue. Naturally you can play MP3s, and since there are no DRM restrictions, you are free to use music for ringtones, etc. It does not support Flash, for example. It's a good browser, with good rendering, easy enough page navigation.

Zooming in and out is one area that's a tad cumbersome, although an icon in the bottom-right conjures up a zoomed-out view with a square "magnifying glass" area. Dragging that box to a new part of the page and simply releasing takes you right to that part of the page very quickly.

It's a handy feature. The best parts of the browser are perhaps the parts that lie outside the browser, on the home screen. The Google search box on the home screen includes Google Suggest, which is like an ultimate auto-complete that uses Google's entire index of the web to guess what you're searching for - in theory - before you even finish typing it. Unfortunately, it's slow to start - sometimes taking up to 15 seconds to get going on a 3G network - but on WiFi it should be fast enough to be useful.

Once it gets started, though, it's quite fast, even if you clear the box and start over. If they can speed up that initial lag in future updates, it could be a killer feature. You can also save bookmarks from the browser directly to the home screen as dedicated icons, much like on an iPhone. There is voice control, although it seems limited to dialing names in the contacts list.

Click "force close" and you can keep on working with minimal inconvenience. Overall, the user interface is very good. There are some rough edges here and there, but over time it will surely evolve and become more fine-tuned.

The fact that the software will be completely open source means it can be upgraded over time, and plenty of new features and functions can be added.

We have a host of videos showing you several different features and functions of the user interface. Be sure to check them out. Eric has been covering the mobile telecommunications industry for 17 years at various print and online publications.

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OK This is a preview. Click for full glossary page. Log In or Register. We successfully set up our review unit with both our Gmail and Yahoo accounts simply by entering our log-in ID and password. Gmail contacts seamlessly transferred to the G1 and mobile email delivery was sometimes faster than on our PC, but attachments took a while to download. Bad news for business users, though.

Sadly, there will be no Microsoft Exchange Server support at launch, so no synchronisation with your Outlook email, calendar, contacts and so forth.

We think this is a pretty glaring omission. You can keep IM chats in the background while working in other applications, which you can't do on the iPhone. The G1 also offers threaded text messaging and yes, multimedia messaging. The advantage of the T-Mobile G1 is that contacts, calendar and Gmail are updated over the air, so you don't have to synch up with your computer every day.

Aside from the email attachment viewer, Google Docs is supported for view only, but we couldn't access a shared Google spreadsheet. Again, the T-Mobile G1 might not be the best choice for corporate users given that you can't really edit Office documents. We're sure as the Android Market expands more productivity applications will become available.

GPS is also available, and unsurprisingly, Google Maps is preloaded on the device with standard map, satellite and traffic views.

While Apple had the unenviable task of incorporating a full-blown iPod-like music player into the iPhone, the T-Mobile G1 has been made as more of a mobile phone than a music player. That said, the music player on the G1 is robust for what it is, and will satisfy most casual listeners.

Songs are organised by Artists, Albums, Songs, and Playlists, as you'd expect. You get the typical music player functions like shuffle, repeat and the ability to create playlists on the fly. And even though there's no CoverFlow, you can still view album art in a list format. We especially like that you can instantly convert any song to a ringtone directly from the music player.

But the most disappointing thing about the music player is hardware related: the G1 doesn't have stereo Bluetooth, and the lack of a 3. YouTube clips took quite a while to load via 3G, and quality wasn't the greatest.

Though images and audio were synchronised, it was blurry -- but then again we were watching low-res versions since we were on T-Mobile's network instead of on Wi-Fi. The 3. Worse, there are no camera settings, such as white balance, effects and shooting modes. And taking pictures was a challenge. You have to have a steady hand to get a clear shot, as the slightest movement will result in a blurry image. We took about ten or 12 pictures before we could get a satisfactory shot, and by the end, we were frustrated.

Picture quality was mediocre -- objects on the outside had sharp definition but they got soft in the middle. The images also had a yellowish hue. Call quality was good and we enjoyed good sound with minimal background noise, though audio was blown out when we set volume to the highest level.

Unfortunately, the speakerphone wasn't as pristine. On our end, the voices sounded tinny and garbled at times; meanwhile, our callers said that we sounded far away. We were impressed by the snappy responsiveness during our testing period, and were happy not to experience any system freezes or crashes. The T-Mobile G1 has a rated talk time of 5 hours and up to five days of standby time. 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.