T-Mobile my Touch 3G Unboxed and Gallery
Filed under: Cell Phones, Handsets | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: June 24, 2009 | 6 Comments
We are all getting very excited as the day is getting closer to when the my Touch 3G launches, this is the T-Mobile version of the Ion / Magic. The handset is due for launch in July, but a couple of Engadget readers have sent a gallery of images of the phone unboxed.
Looking at the photos, there is nothing that we do not already know, but I am sure that you do not mind a host of new pictures just so you can salivate over the T-Mobile my Touch 3G. You can also read the user guide of the phone, just so you can get to know the phone a little more. (Read all the specs)
The T-Mobile my Touch 3G has a range of cool features, these include a widget creation and customization tool, full html browser, as well as an integrated Google search, Gmail client and Google maps. To see the phone in action, we did an article earlier today on the Unboxing Video of the T-Mobile myTouch 3G.
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I’ve been waiting for this for quite sometime now. Finally they are releasing it. I signed up for sprint when my contract expired and picked up the Pre. It was all fine and good but I love that android operating system so I turned it back in before my first month expired. I think that if they fix the battery problems that they had with the G1 it can rival the iPhone 3g s especially since the HTC phones are easier to unlock. I heard the the new iPhone has software that constantly updates with apple making virtually impossible to hack. But then again all the other operating systems were supposed to prevent unlocking and I am sending this from my unlocked iPhone 3g:)
The battery issue with the G1 was actually fixed with an OTA update about a month or two back. I would say it now competes with the iPhone3g/s quite well. However, it still doesn’t have nearly the backing the iPhone does.
It did not fix the problem day 3 of having mine with update. It is being shipped back in the morning!
I have to charge it 3 times a day. I use mine for work and dont think I should have to spend more money to make it work I paid for it to work out of the box!!!!!!
Im looking at the my touch but it has some of the same flaws the G1 has. The touch pro2 is amazing and might go with that I just hate the price with no future reductions planned. Its almost not worth it with it running 6.1 and a high possibility of them not allowing a upgrade to 6.5 when it drops. so it will have to be hacked.
T-mobile and HTC have a great place to start at. there just doing it wrong.
I have a iPhone 3GS 32GB for my personal use and I just the ‘my touch’ for work, and the my touch is years behind the iPhone. The 3GS is MUCH faster. The 3GS will load the same website over 3G twice as fast as the my touch and three times as fast over LAN. I’m a little bias to the iPhone since I’ve owned one for 2 years, but I really don’t see anything that the my touch has an advantage over the 3GS. Really my old 3G is faster then this thing is in every way. Save yourself $100 and pickup a 8GB iPhone, which is 7.5 GB more then you get with the my touch.
I have the My Touch. Its an OKAY phone. the actual phone part isn’t that great. Blue tooth connection is very weak. It tends to be slow downloading web pages and such. I also have noticed it turns all of my MMS messages into a slide show. The pics will appear first then slide away and then the audio comes in and you hear the audio. You can’t save MMS messages and use them for anything. It sends the pics to the gallery and sends the aduio to the Songs portion of the phone rendering them useless. I cannot retrieve them in the same format tha I got them in. You cannot forward them in the same format either. You can forward from the messaging portion of the phone. But if you delete your temp messages out then all is lost. And overall the phone is very slow in its operations. I am really not that impressed with the phone. It is an awful texter also. the letter boxes seem a bit small for my taste. It would help if they were larger.
I’ve had the My Touch for about a week now. Overall, pretty impressed with the device. Then again, anyone with a data phone for the first time would be impressed, I guess.
It’s a nice, manageable size… fits nicely into the palm of your hand and in a pants pocket. The Android Operating system is pretty user-friendly, and there’s a TON of free apps (as well as several pay apps).
However, I’ve been measuring it up against my girlfriend’s iPhone, and it seems to pale in comparison (which pains me to say because I was sick and tired of all of the hype surrounding the phone. I also happen to detest Apple products on the whole). Well, it seems there’s hype around the iPhone for a reason. Against the My Touch, the iPhone is more responsive to the touch, more dynamic in it’s overall application, slighly more user friendly, has a bigger and clearer screen, and just performs better period. It really is a helluva gadget to have!
In summary, while the My Touch is no iPhone (again, which makes me cringe to say), it’s still a good data-phone, and probably you’re best option as a T-Mobile customer. Definitely a better value than the HTC Touch Pro 2 (which will cost a hefty $350 even with a contract). My Touch’s final grade: B-
Hope this has been at least a little help to somebody!