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Returning my T-Mobile G1

With mixed emotions, I returned my G1 to the T-Mobile store this morning. While I was super-excited to get the first Android phone (I waiting outside the T-Mobile store at 7:30am on the first day the phone was available), the actual experience was mixed.

I'll have a full write up later. But the primary reason for returning the phone was the terrible T-Mobile signal at both my home and my work. I was unavailable to make or receive calls in either my home office or my work office. That was the show stopper: even if Google pulled off software and core OS improvements, that's not going to improve my signal coverage.

There are other, smaller issues: email didn't work with my corporate IMAP server because our company doesn't use a certificate signed by a trusted authority in Android's certificate chain. Web pages are slow to download and display: my Treo Centro on the Sprint network can download in 10 seconds what the G1 can download in 30 to 60 seconds. And the Android UI can be unresponsive at times. That said, I would be willing to live with these software issues with the expectation that the developer community would quickly overcome them.

I look forward to a Sprint Android phone.

Posted by will hertling on October 29, 2008 11:16 AM |


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