T-Mobile releases the worlds first Android powered phone called T-Mobile G1, G1 seems like the Google 1. The phone is available for $179 with a two year contract from T-Mobile. For Europe the sales will begin in November & early 2009.

The G1 comes packed with a large touchscreen nearly the same size as that of iPhone, (not a multi-touch screen) but along with the touch screen there is full fledged physical keyboard under the slide which makes the phone a little thicker and a little heavier then iPhone. The G1 allows dragging and dropping of pictures and text, a feature the iPhone still lacks. The music player was easy to use and there is a direct link to Amazon’s music store.

Features of T-Mobile G1

• 3.17″ 65K color touchscreen in HVGA (480×320) resolution
• Slide out QWERTY Keyboard
• Battery, 5 hours talk time, 130 hours standby
• 3.1 MP camera, no video
• GSM/GPRS/EDGE/Wi-Fi and UMTS/HSDPA
  850/900/1700/1800/1900/2100Mhz
• Dimensions, 4.60” x 2.16” x 0.62”
• Weighs 5.6 ounces
• Available in White, Black and Brown colors
• 1GB MicroSD card preinstalled. Support for upto 8GB MicroSD.
• Wi-Fi, 3G (with dual-band UMTS)
• multimedia messaging
• e-mail support (Gmail as well as other POP3 and IMAP e-mail services)
• instant messaging (with Google Talk as an option of course)
• a full HTML browser
• GPS functionality
• a 3-megapixel camera
• a music player with access to the Amazon MP3 store
• Bluetooth
• quad-band GSM support
• one-click contextual search, which lets you search for anything simply by typing in something with the keyboard

Othe Reviews

• First Android Powered Phone
• T-Mobile G1 Review by Tech Radar
• Cnet Reviews
• Five Flaws in T-Mobile G1 by Gizmodo