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Mr Operator on T-Mobile/Android — A flaiming pile of mediocrity

Published by Ewan on Tuesday 23rd September 2008, 15:28 | Filed under: Mobile

I just got this missive from our very own friendly industry giant, Mr Operator.

He’s been glued to the Android coverage and isn’t entirely impressed.

Here we go:

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Having watched the launch video, first impression (apart from that T-Mobile & Google can’t organise a decent handset release to save themselves):

Poor man’s iPhone.

2nd impression: They have not delivered the second coming of the Jesus phone - although with all the evangelising you’d think they had just solved world hunger.

3rd impression: The apps are just lame. Nothing worth changing MNO for. The slider and look of it does not stand out at all.

4th: Hardware: This isn’t a self-explanatory aspirational device like the iPhone or N95, it could be any QWERTY slider.

No tethering! How dare you use it like you want to.

No MS Exchange support - forget those business users for now.

Push G-mail only. Again, forget business users.

No Stereo Bluetooth <8o=

Gtalk IM presence in the phonebook - nice. Finally something new.

$179 is very subsidised. Hmmmmm……

WTF were the geeks doing up there, talking about modding their phones?

Overall…..a flaming pile of mediocrity. Let’s revisit in a year.

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Oh dear. Oh dear me. It can’t be all bad though?

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  • Scott
    I'm guessing Mr Operator doesn't work for T-Mobile
  • Orrrr he could be a rather unimpressed TMO UK board member
  • MarkW
    It does all sound a bit flat. I mean, for those of us who like to play with mobile toys it's another interesting option. For my wife (and other normobs) however, nothing enticing. Can't imagine the other half saying "Do you think I want a G1?" in the same way she said it about the Jesus Phone last week...
  • Can't help but agree... shame really - specially being such as massive Google fan as I am.
  • yep its a damp start - but its just a start. I'm mightly pissed off at the operator lock in. HELLO its open systems - with sim lock! the us is getting a really bad deal too. $25 - $35 for web and walk!!! and paying $199.
  • I like the comment of "Poor Man's iPhone". And that it is. Coming it at $50 a month under what ATT is charging for the monthly package...ie-$600 less per year, or $1,200 less over a two year contract. In addition, $20 less for the phone.

    Look folks, times are tough here in the states. People want a phone like the iPhone, but $1,200 bucks is $1,200 bucks.

    Definitely a first generation phone, with limitations like the 1gb download per month max at 3g and much less data storage, but that is what "Poor Man's iPhone" is all about, isn't it? This is TMobile's client base. I think they did exactly what their customers would want...based on their demographic pull.
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