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The G1 had a famously small app space of just 70 Megs, and early indications are that the N900's space might be 256 Megs. It's taken me wading through a handful of Motorola Droid reviews to finally find out how much of the Droid's storage is reserved for apps.

The New York Times review of the Droid has it: 560 Megs. Smartphones are supposed to hook consumers with an always-internet-connected experience. "App phones" as David Pogue calls this class of phone add in often-paid small applications that add functionality and make the experience even more compelling. Do you really want the space they can store these things in to be limited?

In the end it really depends on how large these apps are on the phone, and whether for those apps that have large reference-style data sets those data sets can be loaded onto the external storage micro SD card or not.

From David Pogue's review, which coins the new term "app phone":

I still like what I've seen of the Droid, but I haven't put my hands on one yet to know how much I might like using one.

Over one million T-Mobile G1 phones have been sold in North America, which is pretty good for a six-month run.

Engadget has the details.

Remember Disney's Aladdin? In it the genie, voiced by Robin Williams in top form, summed up his life beautifully when he erupted in magic and light, juggling the planets themselves, booming aloud "Tremendous cosmic power!" He then shrank down beside the little lamp and squeaked "Itty bitty living space."

Such is the destiny of the T-Mobile G1 as well. Read more »

The dust has settled around the reviews for the T-Mobile G1 and the phone actually received its first "update" in the form of a security-related patch last week. We'll get into that patch in a moment. First my impressions of how the reviewers received the phone and its capabilities.

A Good Start
The phone succeeds as a first go at an Android phone and all reviewers have said that OS revisions and Marketplace applications for the phone will make it truly shine in the future. There are complaints about the stock software loaded on it, but none too serious, and different reviewers appreciate the screen and slide-out keyboard differently. The phone design itself didn't overwhelm any of them -- something I'd agree with just from a visual point of view -- but the OS seemed quite fast and responsive and for a 1.0 OS in some cases beat out the usability of Windows Mobile, at least up until the recent 6.x releases of Windows Mobile. One big standout success on the phone -- something highlighted in the Engadget Podcast -- is the Notification system. It's something that is apparently extensible by Marketplace apps which should produce some very exciting innovations in the always-connected applications space. Read more »