48 hours with the G1

In order to silence Ben’s nagging, here are my thoughts on the G1 after about 2 days.

Browser works well. No multitouch, but the interface is quite usable. No flash, but embedded youtube videos can be opened in the youtube app from the browser. I wrote this blog post in the browser.
Hardware. Feels solid, but not a brick. The keyboard slides out with a satisfying thunk.
Copy/Paste. Doesn’t work everywhere, like on random text in the browser, but the browser will copy phone numbers and urls.
Android Market. Blows away the app experience on Windows Mobile 5, and I guess very similar to the iPhone experience, but definitely feels more.. wild west. There are some really odd apps out there. More on these in another post later.
Notification pulldown. This is the biggest UI innovation of Android. Background apps let you know they have something to show you, yet don’t get in the way of what your doing.

Bluetooth. It has it, but I can’t seem to pair with the handsfree in my car. None of the apps can interact with it either. I hope this is near the top of the android dev teams list
Occasional Slowdown. Sometimes the system hangs momentarily when you change between a lot of apps in a short period of time. This is most likely some apps saving state and shutting down. Very minor issue.
Battery Life. Could be better, but I’ve had much worse.