The marketing for T-Mobile's alleged iPhone killer should include the following motto: "G1 -- It's Not Just A Phone -- It's a Time Machine."Unfortunately, that's not a good thing.
You see, while the G1 is able to get and send information on Wi-Fi, 3G and the Edge networks, just like Apple/AT&T's iPhone, all that networking capability comes with a big caveat:
"If your total data usage in any billing cycle is more than 1GB, your data throughput for the remainder of that cycle may be reduced to 50 kbps or less."
That's what it says in small, but bold text on this page on the T-Mobile website.
That's right. Use too much bandwidth and your web-hopping world suddenly transforms you back to 1999 -- the magical land of blink tags and framed pages, a world of screaming 56K modems that would eventually update a web page in a minute, or maybe five minutes.
Back in The World of 1999, you didn't have any use for games or music or movies. It took 10 minutes to download an MP3 song at 56K. Those were the days when an animated GIF was plenty of entertainment.
The opening of the TV show The Lone Ranger said it all: "Return to the Days of Yesteryear! The 50K Download Rides Again!"
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