Phone calls, messaging, data transfer
Making calls is an awesome experience with G1, since sound quality is exceptionally good. During the test period many have asked me what kind of phone I’m using, as they have heard me really good and I can tell the same. The GSM module is quad-band (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), but the handset supports 3G and HSDPA too (7.2 Mbps). In lack of coverage we can also use EDGE or GPRS, and of course there is WiFi as well, supporting the 802.11b/g standards. Bluetooth is of version 2.0, but unfortunately it cannot be used for transferring data, only for paring with headsets – this is rather disappointing.
We can surely store an infinite number of entries in the contact list, as I couldn’t find any information about any limit for its capacity. As you can see on the pictures there are lots of extra fields, we can assign ringtones to contacts and we can also make calls of selected contacts automatically redirected to voice mail – an interesting feature I could say, it’s a kind of call filter. We can attach images to the contacts, by default we can see small Androids smiling at us, it’s nice and funny. The call log and the dialer are accessible from the phonebook, we can see four tabs on top, which help us in switching between the applications – I’ll save mathematicians from unnecessary thinking, the fourth tab has the most frequently dialed numbers. It’s very cool and also useful that the call log doesn’t only display the time of the call, but also the time elapsed since the call. There is voice dialing as well, of course we don’t have to record names at first, the software recognizes who we want to call.
Messaging is great. There is an e-mail client, but we can access our Gmail account from a dedicated menu. You want attachments and access to authenticated IMAP servers? Android is okay with that. There is an IM client as well, it supports AIM, Google Talk, Windows Live and Yahoo! Messenger accounts. SMS messages are categorized by contacts in a chat-like view. I’ve seen such a feature thousands of times before, but I’m always happy about it. It’s great that we have text selection and copy/paste, even though it’s a bit hard to tap the entry area right in the middle – this is where we have to press in order to make the submenu appear. There is no virtual keyboard, we can only type with the real one, which is correct.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
