…almost eveyone.

As you probably know, the Android based G1 has officially seen the light of day and, so far, it’s getting a big thumbs up. Well, apart from Ulf Washbusch, (ex-Product Marketing Manager for Google Mobile). Ulf has created a blog post which criticises the G1:

It’s funny - but the first time I heard about Android was about 2.5 years ago, when Eric Schmidt told me about the device at Stanford after I got a job offer from Google (yet before I accepted it!). Since then I have seen many iterations of the software. The software. Not the device itself, because sadly it hasn’t changed in many years. The reason many people see the phone as ugly and old-fashioned is simply… because it IS! It’s a design unchanged for at least two years, without iterations on it besides color schemas (it’s now available in Zune-brown along with white and black) and the silly ‘with Google’ description on the back. Don’t ask me what ‘with Google’ means. I didn’t understand it back then and still don’t understand it today.

So I guess he doesn’t want to work for Google ever again! There are a couple of points that Ulf raised that seem to be a common cry amongst people who have seen the G1 - ‘Where do I plug in my headphones?’ and ‘No video player?’. For some strange reason, the powers that be have seen no to include a 3.5mm headphone jack or built-in video file support! That’s fine, I’ll play YouTube media at full volume on a ‘low cost data plan’! Come on Google/T-Mobile, you’ll have to do better than that.

Some valid points Ulf but I’m not sure how well your current employers, MySpace, will view these comments considering their recent collaboration with Google on Open Social!

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