As I had previously equipped mobile:

The Internet in your pocket has fascinated me for a long time. In recent years I have had this as the Nokia N95 , which I thought was great, but due to the much used to expensive data rates over wireless only have to go to the Internet. However, since I my son - then in the "Infant and drool-age" - stupidly play it was, had something new ago, drool running into the boards :-/ Did I do it the BlackBerry 8700g gakauft because of the Qwerty keyboard. The Vodafone push email option price was too expensive and I have therefore omitted to emails on the phone. Until then I had a Vodafone contract with 200 students included minutes. Since I had this but not recently and exhausted me about 45 € fee was too expensive, I started to look around for other providers. At this point I wanted to have a iPhone * or something similar (if there is such a thing already existed), but I wanted to finish any of the T-Mobile "gag" tariffs for this. Well, hope dies last, and so I decided to wait for cheaper rates. Until then, I contented myself with a prepaid card. Compare short and quickly determined that the offer of Maxxim with 8 cents per minute and SMS, the absolute best was / is *. With Maxxim I'm also pretty good experience. As always, stop here, too: if you want "cheap", the service must make compromises and take expensive hotlines in purchasing. Only one point was annoying: the SIM card from Maxxim is frequently not understood by my BlackBerry. So I was down and not accessible again, because it was "SIM-card error" appears on the display, I had a contact or two, select up to three times the connection was. Whether this was on my phone or the SIM card itself or on Maxxim, I can not tell. But back to topic:

Why I bought the Google G1 phone from T-Mobile:

Now've done but ego. I was never a telecom-trailer. Especially since I had once gezofft with a call center lady something, I've actually made me determined to buy anything more from this club. And then everything changed: The G1 ! The rates of the iPhone I checked every week and found nothing appealing. Then I read that the Google G1 mobile phone in February at T-Mobile is available. The G1 I found appealing hammer. Partly because I Google services previously heavily used (eg Gmail ), and also because I prefer a QWERTY keyboard again wish I had been accustomed from my BlackBerry. So I put all my hope fully on the G1 telecom tariffs . A tariff-comparison between the iPhone 1G and can be found on fsklog . By the way: On the second day of February it should be available, and on the evening of February (Sunday) was the telecom website is not accessible ... bad timing! Well, as the rates have now been published, although I did not jump in the air, but could make a collective find what I classed as acceptable:

The "Combi Relax 60". The facts:

Purchase price-Mobile G1: 1,00 €
Monthly fee € 29.95
60 free minutes per month to all German networks, Episode Price per minute € 0.29 (60/1-Sek.-Takt)
On the weekend free to landline and T-Mobile
Cost for SMS / MMS: 0.19 € / 0.39 €
HSDPA usage: 200MB, billed in increments of 100 KB, Episode Price per MB € 0.49

This means that when I see the bill for two years like this: 29,95 € monthly base price plus 1.00 times 24 months = € 719.80 € purchase price. Of course there are other ways to buy the G1 and data plans from other providers (eg simyo data 1GB *), which are more attractive depending on usage, see Duergy `s experience . But seen € 719.80 for two years, I was just fine. Included with the 60 minutes I'm from. The tariff in entahltenen 200MB data transfer are tight, but my first experience show that it is sufficient (to download, especially since I'm at home over Wi-Fi only online to me more data and programs). Of course, everything depends on usage. Other articles followed, ie the use of HSDPA, I get along with the 200MB and which applications should be considered in more detail, I'll detail in another article.

My first impression after two weeks with the G1:

Fluctuating, however, outweigh positive: Very well, I think the operating options (keyboard, touch screen and trackball), which reacts very fast and sharp display, and working with Google services. Gmail is really incredibly fast over the G1 (push email). Also I like about the Android Market and the easy handling and installation of programs and games. I was surpised positively also on the look and feel when you hold the device in hand. Moderately I find the mechanism that pushes the screen up to reveal the keyboard underneath. After only two weeks I have already found that the game mechanics a bit too much - while not disturbing - but just a little bit shaky. And I think the bad battery. This holds for me so far only one day.

All in all, say not know, that - especially if you use Gmail - the G1 is a perfect companion. It looks the way many bloggers as well. More articles on my follow through the G1 determined. Maybe I try too from time to blog over the G1

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