Friday, July 3, 2009

T-Mobile's NEW myTouch Slide Espresso 2.1 Sense UI on my G1 (Part 1 of 2)






This is PART 1 of my video PREVIEW of what to expect on T-Mobile's upcoming Mytouch Slide. For download links watch Part 2 of my video or go here: andrd.me Binary over on XDA got a hold of the system dump from the Mytouch Slide and Domenuk was able to port it to his Mytouch 3G/G1. I am SO surprised that even in its early state you can see how well this runs on my very limited G1. This may very well be the first SNAPPY 2.1 ROM for the G1 =) The Mytouch Slide (Mytouch 3G but with a physical keyboard) will be T-Mobile's FIRST phone with Android 2.1 and HTC's updated Espresso Sense UI and should be released sometime in June. T-Mobile went to great lengths to make Android a little more user friendly to mainstream customers and not just power users like myself. Its also more appealing to currently displaced Sidekick users and I feel like this is who T-Mobile is trying to target with this new version of their Mytouch 3G. T-Mobile had a LOT more influence with this Android phone than any others before it. You can see their apps strewn about this phone and although most are pretty useless, I can see how some Android virgins may find them useful. One I particularly liked was the Mytouch Music app which is essentially a streaming radio station with the top 100 hits and you can even skip ahead to tracks. Nice! Most of the others were apps that overlapped with a lot of other fuctions already found on Android (like Settings). Some even seemed like T-Mobile trying to cash in on some of ...
Video Rating: 4 / 5

16 comments:

  1. Does this work for the Mytouch 3g 1.2?

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  3. Has anyone ever told you that you kind of resemble Jeff Ross?

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  4. Bad Service, Bad Products, Bad Choice, That's t-mobile!

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    Bad Service, Bad Products, Bad Choice, That's t-mobile!

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  5. is there someone else in the room with u. i thought i heard a laugh.

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  6. ok fyi thats not a mytouc 3g slide its a G1 with my touch 3g slide platform

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  7. @EmoGamer Wait what is all this about? The tmobile lady showed me a new phone today on her computer thats sposed to come out in october. it looked kinda sidekick ish. are you talking about that or is there gonna be a new sidekick? im curious about that phone. trying to get a new phone as my sk is breakig but i loved it.

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  8. Do you know if the MyTouch Slide is a resistive touch screen or a skin sensitive touch screen?

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  9. Wow, look at that hair.

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  10. mine mytouch 3g is stuck on the green MY loading screen what did i do wrong

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  11. You should buy a MT3GS and do tutorials in it :D! They have rooted it already, but it is fairly difficult.

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  12. Please make a video on a step by step walkthrough on how to get this. I have had to replace My mytouch 3g 7times now because of problems and I think if I get this I wont have anymore problems and finally enjoy have my phone

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  13. Heys wuds up ..I being watching ur videos. Cuz I used to have a g1 but now I bought the new mytouch slide. My questios is .is ther a way how to move apps to sd card on mytouch slide. And how can I get root. The phone if u got time .please answer my question to g3cua19@gmail.com

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  14. Nice hair! And lip gloss...

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  15. @EmoGamer If I make it even bigger than 256, will sense roms be faster?

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