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by bdowney 4800 days ago
How could like the G1? The capacitive screen was awful and the performance terrible, although the latter was due to lack of optimizations and JIT in the Android VM.

Now that Sundar Pichai is in charge of Android I've been looking at alternatives and Firefox OS looks very promising. I don't use that many apps on my phone anyway and would like to steer clear of some Google products.
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anoncow 4800 days ago
>Now that Sundar Pichai is in charge of Android I've been looking at alternatives

Why does Pichai make you want to look at alternatives? just curious.

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bdowney 4799 days ago
He's the fella who shutdown the Atlanta engineering office and killed the projects that were being developed there. Not a big fan.

Edit: He's also responsible for the CalDav fiasco.

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SwellJoe 4800 days ago
It was a great little phone. I actually owned two of them (not because of breakage...a friend got a dev phone from Google for free and gave it to me, so I gave the original G1 I'd bought to a friend). I loved the keyboard, and miss it pretty regularly with touchscreen-only phones. Maybe that's why I didn't mind the touchscreen...a keyboard is better.

Funnily enough, the dev phone (the second G1 I owned) is still in use today. I gave it to a friend a few years ago when I got the Nexus One, and she is still using it and still loving it. She had never had a smart phone. When her phone died, I gave her the dev phone, because I was tired or her calling rather than texting (and because I'm nice like that). It's taken a lot of abuse, but it's still ticking, and is more reliable than the Nexus One I replaced it with (which died), and the Sensation 4G (which has several hardware problems, in addition to the software being more than a little quirky). I'm still really impressed by that old phone.

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