I'm planning a G1 night for my Android Group. Many people who bought
the first Android Phone had to deal with a lot of frustration. Mostly
because they didn't work. They were slow, they didn't have all the
menu items you needed, and in a few iterations there were 6 different
volume sliders.

The two year contracts were like a kind of torture, to have to carry a
bricky phone around that never really just worked. I have some friends
who just went with the marketing. Some of us chose it out of a belief