G1 - Googlephone

More than a decade after first looking for a phone like HTC's G1 Googlephone I have one! The camera might not be much better (3 Mega Pixel no flash) than a decade old one but the package as a whole is far more than a phone.
Yep, as the reports say, if you use 3G web browsing the battery goes down in a day, but it is no hardship to recharge daily. The email function for a googlemail user is great.
Coming from a very basic Nokia you might think anything would have impressed me - you'd be wrong.
Just before Christmas I tried the Blackberry Storm what a crock of s**t, no wifi, no 3G in Peebles where I live, so it reverts to being a very basic phone on 2G. Storm just has touchscreen for navigation, the G1 has touchscreen, trackball and Qwerty keyboard in landscape mode plus you can interchange between any of the options.
When I first used a digital compact camera in 1992 I wrote a monthly diary and remember writing - "I saw the future of photography today".
Back then I'd have been happy with the iphone from Apple but now I reckon the G1 is better, its open source Android operating system has far more future potential.