And ....
... the first patch/firmware fix on the 31st ...
Brits will be able to get their hands on T-Mobile's G1 Googlephone at the end of the month, the carrier said today. The G1 will be available from Thursday, 30 October, T-Mobile said. Sign up for a Combi or Flext £40-a-month package, and you have have the G1 for nowt. G1_02 T-Mobile's G1: arriving in the UK at the end of the …
That was with heavy sarcasm. Don't blame me if they launch the GeekRoomView extension to Google Maps after three months of your almost useless T-sodding-Mobile chained handset sitting in its dock with its aGPS and camera activated. Oh, and send that "text message" to the bird in accounts and both of you start getting ads for teledildonics. This is Google, after all.
Joke: Because these things invariably turn out to be.
I mean who would take a touchscreen phone and glue an 90's retro style bunch of buttons on the bottom? Yuck.
It makes my 2nd hand Samsung blackjack look positively gorgeous (hint: it is not and it runs Winblows Mobile [between hangs that is]).
Gooiephones only saving grace might be the software but at that price just buy an iphone and develop for that.