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The final product of 2008’s touchscreen smartphone is here at least, the BlackBerry Storm—complete with both messaging and multimedia features aplenty, not to mention a nicely done touchscreen—looks set to give the Apple iPhone 3G and Google Phone T-Mobile’s Android-G1 a run for their money. Unfortunately, the BlackBerry Storm’s poky performance and failure to truly embrace touch keep it from landing a knockout punch.

Sizing at 4.4 by 2.4 by 0.55 inches and weighing in at 5.5 ounces, the BlackBerry Storm place itself between the svelte Apple iPhone and the bulky Google G1 in terms of size and overall heft, and it fits relatively comfortably in a your pocket. Below the roomy of BlackBerry Storm’s display you’ll find the standard Call, End, Back, and Menu navigations, while on the top corners are buttons for silencing ringers and locking the screen.

Speaking of which, the big draw of the BlackBerry Storm ($199 with a new two-year contract, available Friday, Nov. 21) is, of course, its 3.25-inch touch display, and it’s a true beauty. With its screen resolution of 480 by as60, the BlackBerry Storm’s touchscreen actually manages to pack in more pixels than the Apple iPhone’s larger, 3.5-inch screen, and the result is a rich, razor-sharp image, perfect for composing e-mails, internet surfing, or watching multimedia such as videos & movies.

Barring its lack of Wireless (Wi-Fi), the BlackBerry Storm makes for one of the most feature-packed BlackBerrys yet, and something tells us that the engineers at Apple company will be giving its ClickThrough display a close (and potentially envious) look. Now, if BlackBerry could whip up a Storm that’s as peppy as the Bold, well … that would be something nice.

Now we’re on final part of T-Mobile G1-Google Phone Full Reviews. If you missed the previous G1 reviews, you still can read it here & here.

After all, while you’re sad with the G1-Google Phone’s hardware weakness (lack of a 3.5mm jack etc), the awesome of the open-source Android Operating System is that third-party developers are free to tweak any and all of the G1-Google Phone’s core ability, like the dialer, music player, browser, e-mail client or just anything and the sky’s only the limit.

Same goes with the G1-Google Phone Android Market, which was (unsurprisingly) sparsely populated during the tests. Any softwares installed quickly about under a minute and the G1-Google Phone will notified you of any security risks (such as whether the application will access your personal bio, dialer, or GPS connection) before any installation begins—great huh.
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Ok, now we continue to the second part of T-Mobile G1-Google Phone Full Reviews. If you missed the first part, you can still read it here. Apart from before, the call quality was awesome on the G1-Google Phone (some callers couldn’t detect that we’re on a cellular phone), the G1-Google Phone’s speakerphone was loud & clear, and the dialer app is efficient and user friendly (T-Mobile’s myFaves feature is now supported).

Messaging options on the G1-Google Phone are abundant—just about all that’s missing is full-on Exchange support, which will come once an enterprising developer fills the void. Alright, but how’s G1-Google Phone 3G reception? If you’re in New York, you probably had no trouble getting a 3G signal, both in Manhattan and Brooklyn—indeed, 3G reception on the G1-Google Phone was better than on Apple iPhone 3G. Remember that T-Mobile only recently launched its own 3G network, and it’ll only be live in about 21 cities by the end of the month. The G1-Google Phone will work on EDGE technologies-Beside that, you can always having a connectivity to the internet via Wi-Fi (wireless networks).
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Ever heard the G1-Google Android Phone? or T-Mobile G1?
Android-powered G1-Google Phone is the first touchscreen smartphone we’ve seen that’s a real Apple iPhone competitor—and a great one. While it lacks the Apple iPhone’s shine and polish, the G1-Google Phone got the goodness from the peppy, easy-to-use Android OS (operating system), not to say the open-source thing that’ll probably lead to a explosion of inventive applications. Valued from usd $179 and set to ship from October 22 (you can pre-order it here), it’s no shock the G1-Google Phone is already a big hit.

First, the HTC-built G1-Google Phone isn’t much to look at. G1-Google Phone available in black and brown, this G1-Google Phone’s 4.6 by 2.16 by 0.62-inch handset isn’t nearly as hot as the Apple iPhone, and at 5.6 ounces it’s nearly a full ounce heavier than Apple iPhone. The 3.17-inch touchscreen slides up and over to reveal the space of QWERTY keypad beneath, while below the screen you’ll find 5 button keys—Menu, Call, Home, Back, and End—and a small-sized trackball. A volume tuner is on the right side of the G1-Google Phone, while the camera shutter is on its left. But something seems missing here: A direct physical “silent mode” key (instead, you must press and hold the Power button and select the Silent option).
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Some news sources are reporting that T-Mobile will launch the touchscreen version of G1 (Google Android Phone)— this ultimate Google Android expected this year for the U.S. market—as early as next month, is this the Apple iPhone killer, anyone?

You can found more detailed stories about the G1 on Wired News, this G1 (Google Android Phone) described as a touchscreen phone with a full slide-out, full-QWERTY keypad, a roomy 5′x3′-inch display, a nice 3MegaPix camera, and access to T-Mobile’s nascent 3G network which, for now only run in New York included Las Vegas.
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Google seems to shows phone prototype to vendors. I think it’s better than iPhone from Apple. The phone promises to fuse open-source software with Google’s applications on a high-end handset. Rubin’s team is building custom mobile-phone software atop the free Linux operating system that will bind the phone tightly to Google’s online applications and advertising services, sources say. Software from another Google acquisition, Skia, will put a slick user interface on the package. Finally, Google will build all that software into a smart phone built by Taiwanese handset specialist HTC, according to a source familiar with the matter.

August 02, 2007 (IDG News Service) — Google Inc. has developed a prototype cell phone that could reach markets within a year, and plans to offer consumers free subscriptions by bundling advertisements with its search engine, e-mail and Web browser software applications, according to a story published Thursday in The Wall Street Journal.

Google is showing the prototype to cell phone manufacturers and network operators as it continues to hone the technical specifications that will allow the phone to offer a better mobile Web browsing experience than current products, the Journal said.

The five facts:

• Google Phone is based on a mobile variant of Linux, and is able to run Java virtual machines.
• All applications that are supposed to run on the Google Phone are java apps. The OS has ability to run multimedia files, including video clips.
• The user interface is similar to a UI typical of mobile phones, and the image (with red background) floating around isn’t representative of the Google Phone UI. The entire UI is said to be done in Java and is very responsive. The UI, of course has a “search box.”
• There is a special browser which has pan-and-browse features that are common to modern browsers such as browsers for iPhone and Symbian phones. The entire browser is apparently written in Java. But then others have told us that the browser is based on the WebKit core, the same engine in Safari and in iPhone, and Google has been making optimizations to speed it up. This is one aspect of the Google Phone I am not sure about.
• Initially there was one prototype, but over past few months Google has the mobile OS running on 3-to-5 devices, most of them likely made by HTC, a mobile phone maker, and all have Qwerty apps. The model that folks have seen is very similar to the T-Mobile Dash. Around 3GSM, there were rumors that Google, Orange and HTC were working together on mobile devices.
• more Google Phone pictures here.

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