T Mobile's G1 MOST OBNXIOUS FLAWS

I still think that the iPhone is number one with all of the touch screen phoens made out there. I found this article about the major flaws of the G1. Which I still don't get.. is it called Android or G1?! Apple has contacts and syncing which comes in handy if your phone ever fails on you.. but the G1 doesn't have that.. basically it's being supported by a cloud. This article also claims that the connection could be slower than EDGE network. So many companies attempt to make a better phone that the Apple iPhone, but yet have to succeed in such a hypothesis. While I was more impressed by the T-Mobile G1 than I thought I'd be, the list of catches for Android and the phone are quickly piling up—some that might very well be dealbreakers. Topping the list, it's tightly integrated with your Google account—so tightly that you can only use one Google account with the phone. If you want to switch to another account, you have to do a whole factory reset. Update: T-Mobile has patched up some of them—the 1GB cap is gone, and they'll unlock the phone for you after 90 days.

Contacts and Syncing: As mentioned, there is no desktop syncing app. It's all about the cloud—your Google contacts and cal are considered the masters. So if it's all on your desktop or god forbird, MobileMe, you've gotta move it over to your Google account.

Video: There's no video playback at all right now, except for YouTube. The expectation is that developers will create video playback apps and the requisite support.

Hardware Inadequacies: No multitouch on the G1 and there never will be, since the panel itself doesn't support it.

Miscellaneous: You've gotta have an SD card for any kind of music or video playback, once the latter arrives—there's no internal storage for media playback.

Bonus T-Mobile obnoxious flaw: If you're lucky enough to live in one of the markets sprinkled with 3G, after you've used 1GB of data, T-Mobile will slow you down to 50Kbps for the rest of the month. That's slower than EDGE, which is theoretically capable of 384Kbps, though in real world it's closer to 100Kbps.

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