Tuesday, September 23, 2008

T-Mobile G1 to be launched on October 22


The very first Android based handset has been launched in the USA at a glittering function. Prima facie, the interface looks awesome and is very iPhone like. The phone will be out for sale starting October 22nd.

Here are the final specs which definitely would give the likes of the iPhone a run for its money. Though not as glamorous looking as the iPhone, the G1 matches if not exceeds the capabilities offered by the iPhone.Priced at $179 under contract in the US, the G1 would be out in the Europe launch in November starting with the UK and all over Europe by early 2009.

Specs

Processor - Qualcomm® MSM7201A™, 528 MHz 
Operating System - Android 

Memory
ROM: 256 MB 
RAM: 192 MB 

Dimensions - (LxWxT)117.7 mm x 55.7 mm x 17.1 mm 
(4.60 in x 2.16 in x 0.62 in) 

Weight - 158 grams (5.57 ounces) with battery 
Display - 3.2-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with 320 x 480 (HVGA) resolution 
Network- HSDPA/WCDMA: 
Europe - 2100 MHz 
US:1700/2100 MHz 
Up to 7.2 Mbps down-link (HSDPA) and 2 Mbps up-link (HSUPA) speeds 
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 
850/900/1800/1900 MHz 
(Band frequency, HSUPA availability, and data speed are operator dependent.) 

Device Control - Trackball with Enter button 
Keyboard - Slide-out 5-row QWERTY keyboard 
GPS - GPS navigation capability with built-in GPS receiver and map software 
Connectivity - Bluetooth® 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate 
Wi-Fi® - IEEE 802.11b/g 
HTC ExtUSB - (11-pin mini-USB 2.0 and audio jack in one) 
Camera - 3.2 megapixel color camera with fixed focus 
Audio - Built-in microphone and speaker 
Ring tone formats - AAC, AAC+, AMR-NB, MIDI, MP3, WMA, WMV 
40 polyphonic and standard MIDI format 0 and 1 (SMF)/SP MIDI 

Battery Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery 
Capacity: 1150 mAh 

Talk time: 
Up to 350 minutes for WCDMA 
Up to 406 minutes for GSM 
Standby time: 
Up to 402 hours for WCDMA 
Up to 319 hours for GSM 
(The above are subject to network and phone usage.) 
Expansion Slot microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible) 
AC Adapter Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240V AC, 50/60 Hz 
DC output: 5V and 1A 
Special Features Digital Compass, Motion Sensor

3 comments:

Technomaniac said...

i think i should get that mobile dude

Rahul Srinivas said...

True! But that design and some shortcomings like the crippled bluetooth and no video recording put me off slightly..

Thanks for the comment!

Alap Naik Desai said...

The problem in this promotional mock-up image is obvious: The analog clock says it's 9:10 but the digital clock says it's 2:47.

I know. It seems like a dumb problem. But it is an obvious one. This is one of their main promotional images—which incidentally shows a T-Mobile G1 with a screen that seems to be broken, something which is bad enough on its own—and they failed to get it right. The problem with the clocks would have never escaped Apple's ferocious attention to detail, but it is not the image itself that's so troubling. It is what it symbolizes, what is missing at Android's most fundamental level: Attention to detail.