Related topics  T-Mobile G1  Operating System 1, Hardware 0
That's not to say that a bog-standard G1 is lacking in the
software department. The email application is very easy to set
up and use. Ditto the IM client, which supports AIM, Google
Talk, Windows Live and Yahoo!. The SMS client displays text
conversations as IM-style threads.  If the G1 has a major
failing it's battery life. It is abysmal. On average, we got
between ten and 12 hours from a full charge of the 1150mAh
battery, and that didn't include much in the way of Wi-Fi or GPS
usage. Fire up either, or both, for any length of time and that
12 hours will start to shrink - and shrink fast.  T-Mobile
Android G1  The 3.2-megapixel snapper is nothing spectacular
Even the HTC Diamond wasn't this bad, and that makes do with a
piddly 900mAh battery to power the same Qualcomm 7201A 528MHz
processor that's found in the G1. Android phones of the future
are going to either need much bigger batteries, the OS needs to
be refined to reduce the power draw, or b