Comments on: T-Mobile MyTouch 3G Ships August 3rd!

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:57:47 +0000

I CANT DECIDE ON THIS OR THE G1 this is realllllllly bugging me. You guys have no idea.

By: ed

ed — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:40:18 +0000

wow. at&t will be the last carrier to get the hero.if at all sprint most likely. then tmo 2nd. sorry at&t faithful

By: jaan

jaan — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:13:50 +0000

@uwsteve

No, the HTC magic sold in Europe and available on Rogers (Canada) has 288mb, the myTouch has 192.

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:35:26 +0000

“T-Mobile USA has decided not to offer the Hero, with its Sense UI and flash support, and is focusing instead on the August 5th launch of the myTouch 3G Android phone.” With that said, it is almost for certain T-Mobile will not be receiving the Hero. However, the FCC did recently pass the Hero and should eventually end up with AT&T and/or Rogers (up in Canada).

By: tennislefty

tennislefty — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:50:43 +0000

One big complaint is that the pre-order is for individual accounts only. I currently have 50 phones with T-Mobile and was looking forward to an Android phone with Microsoft Exchange support. I tried pre-ordering on July 8 only to be told that this is not available for business clients. I guess $2,000/month isn’t worth quite as much as an individual paying $75/month!! Am going to re-evaluate my carrier choices.

By: uwsteve

uwsteve — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:18:17 +0000

@skurtis
The MyTouch actually has 288 RAM not 192.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:57:21 +0000

The Hero was just confirmed for AT&T. So good luck with that. You’ll be paying $40 per month to our $25.

By: g1-and-only

g1-and-only — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:22:09 +0000

oh and by the way the G1 has 256 mem just in incriments of 70mb at a time

By: g1-and-only

g1-and-only — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:20:13 +0000

well well well what made the G1 so special was it put it self in a different class from the iphony with a keyboard ( not to mention battery replacement, memory card) just to name a few but without a keyboard its just another iphony and im just not that into it. if T-MO trys to give me a magic to replace my G1 we are going to have some problems. I dont care if its the “in thing” to have a thin super model phone that you can tuck away in your wallet. No physical keyboard, no thanks.

By: skurtis

skurtis — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:10:59 +0000

@straightup – I am sure you love your Google Ion/HTC Magic/T-Mobile MyTouch 3G (same device with different names ?), but I don’t think its a compelling upgarde from G1. Its not even useful to compare it to G1, as it has no physical keyboard. This is a latest entry into smartphone market and lets see where it stands against two major competitors – Palm Pre, and iPhone 3GS. 192 MB RAM vs 256 MB for Palm & iPhone. 512 MB Flash vs 8/16/32 GB for others. Still uses outdated OpenGL hardware 4M polys vs 28M polys per sec for iPhone(we need Games, don’t we?). No hardware H.264 codec. Sub-par screen Brightness/contrast. And there are more subtle issues which i wouldn’t bother to detail – but the phone has cheap plastic feel as per many reviewers. It costs $649 unlocked vs $499 for G1. So we’r paying $149 for 64 MB RAM upgrade minus the keyboard ? Can you see now why this phone is lackluster. I am still waiting for a great Android phone to come to market…

By: Ennis

Ennis — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:18:44 +0000

Ditto @ Sean. Only getting this if there’s no chance of getting a Hero.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:12:06 +0000

i will only get this if the HTC Hero ISNT for T-Mobile.

By: Roy

Roy — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:53:49 +0000

T-Mobile is saying that *all* pre-orders ship at the same time, not in order received. That’s also the way Apple did it with the 3GS.

By: straightup

straightup — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:54:20 +0000

Have any of you commenting even used the mytouch3g I’m guessing not seeing all the naive comments on here… I own and have been using the Google Ion since early June it is hands down a better phone in every respect compared to the G1 (assuming you don’t mind the lack of a hardware keyboard) It is a much better form factor feels great in hand has a glass screen with better contrast. 7 times more user accessible memory 512mb as opposed to only 70mb on the G1. significantly more processing ram which makes everything run much smoother. Coming from someone who has the used the phone for about a month now it has very few similarities to the G1 other than the android software and the obvious fact they are both HTC phones. The only reason the hero looks any better than the magic is its customized “sense” software. The software can be flashed to the magic with relative ease and runs smoothly on it due to the increased processing ram. You guys really shouldn’t be commenting on a phone you haven’t even used. BTW I had previously owned the G1 since October 21st, 2008 (got it a day early through customer preorder) so I know what I’m comparing it to.

By: EAC59

EAC59 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:05:10 +0000

Actually when the phone which can support 720p playback hits the US (using Nvidia’s Tegra chip), THAT will be a great update. Just hope it has a QWERTY keyboard to play around with. I was going to buy this phone, but got angry that its priced higher than when the G1 launched just because it has a little more RAM (and no keyboard)