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Navigating the G1 and its features is easy but not quite as intuitive as the iPhone.
In spite of its sophisticated technology credentials, the G1 is clearly aimed at the broad mass market rather than technology aficionados or corporate users. It is not designed to synchronise with corporate e-mail systems and does not permit users to save or edit Microsoft Office documents.
W hen new G1 owners power up the handset, they create or sign into a Google account and then the phone is automatically sychronised with Google's web-based Gmail, calendar and contact information. Users can also set the phone up to download and send e-mail from other non-Gmail personal e-mail accounts. Gmail users can read Microsoft Word and Excel attachments, but cannot edit or save them.
Appropriately for a device that Google believes will help bring the mobile internet to the mass market, the G1's web browser is both fast and excellent - it is in fact based on the same technology as the Safari browser built into the iPhone and Google's recently launched Chrome web browser.
In my tests, web pages loaded quickly and I could zoom easily by tapping a screen based icon.
The G1's home screen features four icons providing access to basic applications - a dialler, contacts list, the web browser and Google Maps. The latter takes full advantage of the G1's built-in GPS satellite navigation technology and supports one of my favourite features - Google Maps street view that changes as you turn around, like a compass needle.
From the home screen, users can open a full screen of application icons that provide access to all the included applications such as alarm clock, camera, e-mail, IM and music.Continued...
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