Full video walkthrough of T-Mobile G1 interface
By Simon Sage on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 at 1:04 PM PST In Android
We covered a lot of this on the liveblog, but if a picture says a thousand words, then a movie must say, like, a million. You can see the picture framing, moving applications, buying tunes off the Amazon MP3 store, listening to ‘em, instant messaging, contact management, mapping, and how Android handles a bunch of other stuff on the T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) G1. One thing I hadn’t noticed before was the Search key, letting you quickly make a Web or Address Book search depending on what app was open.
The video closes off by bragging about providing the “full web experience you’re used to on a computer”, which is a trap that the iPhone fell into in its marketing strategy as well. The fact is, there will always be some compromises to make for screen size, processor and bandwidth that will make anything shy of a netbook really capable of doing desktop browsing justice. Windows Mobile has really latched onto the idea that miniaturizing a computer automatically makes it mobile-friendly, but I really hope Android doesn’t make the same mistake.

