More Android Tidbits: Caps, TCO, VoIP
- I wrote about the Android launch yesterday. A few more tidbits worth noting:
- The G-1 TOS seems to imply that even with an unlimited plan, users consuming more than 1GB of data per month will be throttled back to low-speed access, though T-Mobile denies it.
- Wired did the TCO math and found the T-Mobile G-1 $380 cheaper over a two-year contract than AT&T/iPhone.
- Google’s GTalk app on the phone is not set up to allow VoIP calling, although there are supposedly not specific limits on third-party VoIP apps coming to the Android Market.
- It’s worth noting that the G-1 is fully integrated into the Google world; you need a Gmail account to even use the phone and all data, contacts, email, etc. is synched to the Google cloud, not your desktop. This gives Google a huge lead over Microsoft on this front, which is busy replacing desktop apps with cloud apps on the desktop but as far as I know hasn’t even talked about such integration in the next version of Windows Mobile.
