{"id":5121,"date":"2008-10-21T08:17:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T15:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=5121"},"modified":"2008-10-21T08:17:28","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T15:17:28","slug":"the-gphone-is-hereand-here-are-my-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5121\/the-gphone-is-hereand-here-are-my-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"The GPhone is Here…and Here are My Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was pleasantly surprised to come home from the grocery store last night and see a package from T-Mobile w\/ my new G1.\u00a0 My girlfriend wasn’t so pleasantly surprised b\/c it meant that I would for the most part ignore her for the evening while playing with my new toy.\u00a0 Here are my first impressions:<\/p>\n

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  1. If you’re already a Google fanboy, you’ll love it.\u00a0 When you fire it up, it prompts you for your google ID, and you’re done.\u00a0 Your email, calendar, and contacts are all seemlessly integrated with the phone.\u00a0 You don’t have to lose your @mywebsite.com email address, either.\u00a0 Using Google Apps<\/a>, you can allow big G to give you all their services for free, and retain your branding.<\/li>\n
  2. The App Marketplace is REALLY thin right now, but there’s not an app on there that costs.\u00a0 I immediately installed Accuweather<\/a> (which I had on my BB,) and Plusmo College Football<\/a> (which was already available for IPhone.)<\/li>\n
  3. Coming from the BB, I like the trackball + touchscreen navigation.\u00a0 Very easy to maneuver websites with a lot of small nav buttons using the trackball, and very quick to navigate easier sites with the touchscreen.<\/li>\n
  4. I’m assuming b\/c they piggybacked off the 1-800-GOOG-411 technology, the voice dialer actually works REALLY well.<\/li>\n
  5. There’s no port for headphones, which is really annoying.<\/li>\n
  6. Amazon MP3 is every bit as good as itunes.<\/li>\n
  7. So if you rotate the g1 on its side the screen does NOT adapt.\u00a0 It’s very easy to navigate through w\/o using the keypad, so I think this was a pretty silly move.\u00a0 I’m not sure if they can do a soft upgrade using the compass or something, but I hope they can.<\/li>\n
  8. The messaging is not as consolidated as the BB.\u00a0 I really like getting my sms, mms, and emails all in the same viewer.\u00a0 There doesn’t appear to be an option for that here.<\/li>\n
  9. The browser isn’t quite as nice as the Iphone’s.\u00a0 The Iphone browser does a good job of autosizing a site to fit the screen – android’s, not so much.\u00a0 However, it’s still the 2nd best phone browser I’ve used.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So, all in all, I’m happy with the Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I was pleasantly surprised to come home from the grocery store last night and see a package from T-Mobile w\/ my new G1.\u00a0 My girlfriend wasn’t so pleasantly surprised b\/c it meant that I would for the most part ignore her for the evening while playing with my new toy.\u00a0 Here are my first impressions: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10681,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10681\/real-estate-investing-for-retirement-2-schools-of-thought\/","url_meta":{"origin":5121,"position":0},"title":"Real Estate Investing For Retirement – 2 Schools of Thought","author":"Jeff Brown","date":"December 22, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"There surely are more than just a couple schools of thought when it comes to using real estate as a vehicle to get them to an abundant retirement. 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