{"id":1688,"date":"2009-06-07T10:43:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T15:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2009-06-07T12:58:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T17:58:40","slug":"pretty-white-g1-you-are-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2009\/06\/pretty-white-g1-you-are-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty white G1, you are mine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last summer I posted an entry “Tell me about your smartphone”<\/a> where I outlined desirables in a potential smartphone. I never bought one – until this weekend. As requested, here are the details of what I ended up with.<\/p>\n

After months of research and considerations it came down to two contenders, Nokia e71x and the HTC Dream (G1):<\/p>\n

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While I won’t jump in and say either one is perfect (there is no perfect), they both met my core requirements perfectly. I spent about three weeks being indecisive about which I would choose. The e71x is more compact and cheaper, the G1 has a form-factor I prefer and the very cool Android OS, but first gen? I played with them both, poured over comparison charts<\/a>, blabbered about it in IRC with owners of each model.<\/p>\n

When all the dust settled on Friday I headed off to an AT&T retailer to get the Nokia e71x. Due to my lack of credit they wanted a deposit of $500 for a plan (“pay as you go” is not very popular or reasonably priced in the US). Wow. I paid a $400 deposit on my Verizon phone but that was because I didn’t have many options at the time. The retailer told me that they could probably get it reduced to $350, with even the possibility of getting it waived and that they’d get back to me in 3 hours. They never called me. I could actually pay this deposit, but I skipped over to the T-Mobile store down the street to scope out my options for the G1.<\/p>\n

The folks at the T-Mobile store were friendly and helpful, and after considering plans and all costs involved (the phone cost more, but they only wanted 1 months payment up front for a deposit and the plans were significantly cheaper for unlimited text and data) I went ahead and bought a white G1. They didn’t have the white one in stock so I’m picking it up tomorrow.<\/p>\n

I’m looking forward to wasting hours this week playing with it, and I’m very happy with the choice. Woo, I finally will have a shiny new phone that does more than voice and text for my trip down to SELF<\/a> on Friday! :)<\/p>\n

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Now to find a nice pink cover…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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