G1 for 30 Days

I've bought the G1 Android phone from T-Mobile in the U.S., and I have 30 days to figure if I wanna keep it.

If you have feedback, I'm at marc@disquiet.com.

By the way, this is my main website: disquiet.com. It's broadly about personal technology, but specifically to the extent that technology mediates music and sound and related art.

Countdown, 28 Days: Battery … Battery

The old Metallica song kept running through my head as the primary focus of my attention was the phone’s battery, which is anthing by robust. I installed a power manager, which may help some. By the end of the day, though, the battery wasn’t as much of a concern to me as I thought it might have been. If you think of the machine as what it is, a very small computer that can run for about 18 hours without a charge, it’s still pretty darn cool.

But I’ll be keeping my eye on the battery, still.