[pritambaral]

How's the battery life?

Genuinely curious. I'd like to use a phone with a hardware-keyboard as my daily driver too, but the only ones I can find are so old their batteries have worn down to the point of being functionally unacceptable.

[js8]

I have bought a new battery twice, and the last one I have lasts about 1.5 day or so and I bought it maybe a year ago. I am not a heavy user but you can still find the battery on the market - the one I have was made by "Cameron Sino", model CS-HDE160SL, it's Lion battery with 1150 mAh (as they claim). I bought the G1 pretty late, I think two years after it was introduced, so I have it maybe 8 years now?

[Zhenya]

What OS are you running? I do the Google services still work? Can webpages even really load due to heavy JS today?

[js8]

I am still running Android 1.6. Google services - Gmail doesn't seem to work anymore (and I never used it very much), Maps I do use and they work, Talk I never used, Market I think worked OK till about a year ago. I cannot upgrade most apps I have on it, because the new version doesn't work on such old Android. I pretty much only use it today for calls and texting, and that works, and I guess most apps I have on it (including original Google Apps for things like Music, Calendar etc.) still works.

Regarding browsing, yeah, it's somewhat usable in emergency (the pages will load) but I never got very used to do it because the speed was always abysmal here (Czech Republic). The original Google browser still works.

So, I guess I cannot recommend buying one now (although perhaps with Cyanogenmod it would be better), but it works for me and I really wish I could replace it with something that has keyboard. :-(

[js8]

Actually, I just tested it and Gmail works, I just haven't used it for a long time, so it took a while to update all the messages. :-)