I went out on Tuesday and picked up a G1 (the Android-based Googlephone). So far I find it useful, convenient, and fun. It very, very close to what a mininotebook should be. As more apps get released it will only get closer.

That’s not to say it’s without quirks. The rich-text version of this form won’t accept text input. I had to type that last sentence twice because I somehow managed to make it disappear. Facebook is quirky while on wifi (possibly because of weak signal) buit works fine on Edge. When an app starts going nuts there doesn’t seem to be a way to kill it short of a reboot, even when you pull up the alt-tab menu where it would make sense. The tab soft-key (alt-q) does a tab character, never a field-advance.

Even with all that it’s still easily the best phone I’ve ever used. It blows my Windows Mobile device, which I loved, out of the water. There are apps that are so obvious and so wonderful that you can’t help but love them. Even the apps that are obviously missing are bound to show up soon.

It’s a shame I had to pay $23 to get it unlocked for use on AT&T, but that’s T-Mobile’s fault.

The phone is so sexy that Wendy wants one and she just got a new phone two months ago. I’m going to keep playing with it and I’ll post anything neat I find here.