Although the first Android-based T-Mobile G1 looks very promising, there are some flaws that can be a potential dealbreakers that T-Mobile should take a look at. We’ve listed some of the flaws that users may notice in the future.
1. You can only use one Google account – Aparently, you can only use one Google account on your Android-based phone, If you want to switch to another account, you have to do a whole factory reset. Although there might be a workaround, that is by using a separate IMAP mail app for their secondary Gmail accounts, but that still screws you if you’ve got calendars on multiple Google accounts—like if you’ve got a hosted Google Apps account for your site and a personal one, you’ve gotta pick one or the other. This is a technical limitation of Android 1.0, so it should be fixed in the future
2. Desktop Syncing – As mentioned before, T-Mobile G1 got no desktop syncing. So if all of your contacts and cal are on your desktop or god forbird, MobileMe, you’ve gotta move it over to your Google account. At launch, however it’ll be able to do remote syncing, so if you make a change or download an app on your desktop, your device will automatically sync up. Still, it’ll be open for developers to fill this market, as well as the lack of Exchange support.
3. Video Playback – 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. That’s one of those big holes we worried Google would leave to developers to fill. Same story for video recording. Devs can add it in though.
4. Inadequate Hardware – No multitouch on the G1 and there never will be, since the panel itself doesn’t support it. There is alo no headphone jack, although common in HTC phones it is still annoying.
5. 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. Then when it comes to navigation, the fact that you have to use the QWERTY keyboard for all text entry can be annoying, since it involves a lot of flipping the phone around to type if you’re navigating vertically. Some onscreen action would be nice, but once again, they’re leaving that to developers. [via Gizmodo]
Another reason that might annoy future users is that T-Mobile is locked to T-mobile although T-Mobile already said that they will unlock your phone after 90 days. Then there is the 3G cap, but T-Mobile also already took care of that.
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