Comments on: General Mobile DSTL1 Unboxed, Reviewed

By: Robby Wodomal

Robby Wodomal — Thu, 13 May 2010 07:17:34 +0000

Will this phone work in Uganda and the East African region?

Best Regards,
Robby

By: Jools

Jools — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:49:31 +0000

Will this phone work on the UK network?

By: General Mobile’s 2nd Android Phone: The COSMOS | Android Phone Fans

General Mobile’s 2nd Android Phone: The COSMOS | Android Phone Fans — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:40:16 +0000

[...] This is GM’s first phone with Android 2.0 and successor to their first Android handset the DSTL1. Check out some images below: #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; [...]

By: Paladin

Paladin — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:57:44 +0000

I have a DSTL1 and i like it a lot. Most of the apps i installed on it worked, and i love the dual sim that means i don’t have to carry 2 phones in my pocket. And the design is very cool :D

But i find the lack of Android Market anoying. I really don’t understand why Google doesn’t just let users download the .apk and install it. This forces me to download the apps from diffrent sources, and while searching for the free apps you come to notice that you can download some of the non-free ones too. That can’t be a good thing for either Google or the developers. So far the only explanation i heard was “the Android Market is Google’s app and they can do what they want with it”, but that doesn’t explain why they would want their install base diminished.

Anyway, those of you that are intrested in the DSTL1 or already got one, please email GM to let them now that we would really like access to the market, and that Android 1.6 probably solves a lot of the resolution problems they encountered with some apps. (the upgrade now on their site is for 1.5)

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:11:43 +0000

I have been looking to purchase a DSTL1 in the United States for a while now but was unable to find a store that sold them. I reently did a google shopping search for “DSTL1″ and found an on-line retailer. I bought it and it’s awesome.

By: Weiman

Weiman — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:13:00 +0000

DSTL1 software upgrade available.

http://www.generalmobile.com/index.asp?action=Android_Phones/DSTL1_support

By: Weiman

Weiman — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:44:52 +0000

Glad to hear that 1.6 will have major revamp and fixes :) upgrade scheduled within coming months? :)

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:01:54 +0000

I’m a bit mixed. I wanted mine because I use GMail and Calendar, and carry 2 phones. To find that it doesn’t support GMail and Calendar at the moment makes it close to worthless to me, however good it is in other respects (and it is good, despite the WiFi bug). I am waiting for a reply from General Mobile to my enquiry about the missing apps, whether they will be supported with 1.6, and when 1.6 might be available, but if they don’t reply soon I shall have to send it back, $500 is too much for a device with major flaws, however good it may be in other respects. Rather hacked off really.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:37:12 +0000

I agree its a shame it doesn’t support market yet. Google map however I got from a apk file and it seems to work fine.
This phone doesn’t have a gps though, witch is another feature that would be nice nice to have besides 3g.
The big plus for me is the dual sim. I was so tired of having to carry with me 2 phones all the time.
Dual sim feature works fine, but a have some minor bugs like hiding calling id. If you hide 1 of the sim cards it also hide the other sim card. I miss the feature from windows mobile witch allow you to hide caller id when you call a number not in your contact list.

By: vertiges

vertiges — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:14:54 +0000

Well it is a nice video. But I think a bigger screen would have done better. The fact that it uses Android is amazing!

By: Valczir

Valczir — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:21:39 +0000

Wow. Me likes. This is the type of phone I’d want, if I ever got one – a lot of other phones just seem too bulky.

This one doesn’t waste space, it has a pretty nice camera, and it uses android. And it’s obscure (not by a major brand name), which is another thing that attracts me to it.

By: pjv

pjv — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:53:27 +0000

If comment 1 was Dianne Hackborn from Google, then thanks very much for that new and interesting information. 80% of the apps working IS very encouraging. In view of a future API supporting the possibility for apps to indicate resolution support (as mentioned in the video), this even does not seem too bad a disadvantage for the device. It does not even have to be in the next version of Android. As an app developer I concur it is a sound decision not to rush an API.

Oh and did anyone notice the resemblance to the HTC Touch Diamond?

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:28:56 +0000

Android donut (1.6) is supposedly more compatible with the WQVGA resolution.

By: Maj

Maj — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:13:06 +0000

instead of putting a 5mp camera maybe they should have invested in a bigger screen size or a capacitive touch screen but still its not that bad and actually a bit better than i expected

By: Weiman

Weiman — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:00:19 +0000

I was led to believe that Resistive touchscreen does support multi-touch… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistive_touchscreen

A bug I noticed that Mobile Burn probably did not encounter: with too many incorrect SIM card PIN attempts it will lock you out, but will not give the option to enter a PUK as it should. In fact it gives no indication of why there is not any service. I had figure this out by putting my SIM back into my old phone.

Could not get a data connection with ATT – but I expected this because ATT uses MediaNet.

I had also encountered the same Wi-Fi bug when the phone goes into StandBy mode.

And I am very disappointed with poor Blue Tooth support – but I believe this is Android’s fault.