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Behold, the T-Mobile G1 Smart Phone

Behold, the T-Mobile G1 Smart Phone
Written By
Clint Boulton
Clint Boulton
Sep 23, 2008
2 minute read
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Behold, the T-Mobile G1 Smart Phone

by Clint Boulton and Stephen Wellman


Behold, the T-Mobile G1 Smart Phone – G1 Cohorts Pose For Group Photo

From left to right, HTC President and CEO Peter Chou; Google Senior Director of Mobile Platforms Andy Rubin; Christopher Schl???ffer, group product and innovation office of Deustche Telekom; and Cole Brodman, chief technology and innovation officer of T-Mobile USA, proudly flash their G1 mobile smart phones.


Behold, the T-Mobile G1 Smart Phone – Surprise Google Guests

Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin roll in on roller blades, underscoring the mobility theme Google and T-Mobile hoped to impress upon people regarding the G1 smart phone.


Behold, the T-Mobile G1 Smart Phone – Brin and Page Join Group Photo

Google’s Rubin, T-Mobile’s Brodman, Google’s Page, Google’s Brin, Deutsche Telekom’s Schl???ffer, and HTC’s Chou mug for the camera with their G1 gadgets.


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Behold, the T-Mobile G1 Smart Phone – The Demo Inside …

Note the smooth touchscreen, with options to dial, tap contacts, browse the Web and check Google Maps.


Behold, the T-Mobile G1 Smart Phone – Google Maps on the G1

Google and T-Mobile hope the Google Maps experience on the G1 is similar to Maps on the desktop. If this screenshot is any indication, so far, so good.


Behold, the T-Mobile G1 Smart Phone – Flickr on G1

Users can upload and access all of their Web content from the G1, including YouTube videos, and as this pic shows, photos from Flickr.


Behold, the T-Mobile G1 Smart Phone – Hands-on Experience with G1

eWEEK gets its hands on G1 for the first time …


Behold, the T-Mobile G1 Smart Phone – Google Search on G1

The Google Search application on G1, easily the No. 1 app Google’s Page and Brin want to work as well on the smart phone as on the desktop.


Behold, the T-Mobile G1 Smart Phone – Shop Savvy

Shop Savvy is one of the first apps available on Google’s Android Market next month. The comparison shopping app lets G1 users scan the bar code of a product with their G1’s camera and compare prices from e-commerce and brick-and-mortar businesses.

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