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VMware Fusion, for some reason, identifies the G1 as ‘High Android Phone’ when connected via USB. OS X only sees it as ‘Android Phone’ and Vista (once the drivers are installed) sees it as both ‘Android Phone’ and ‘HTC Dream Composite ADB Interface’.
(Thanks to the generosity of a friend I’ve recently come into possession of a T-Mobile G1 phone running Google’s Android. It’s only costing an extra $20/mo for unlimited data, so I’ve been using full time since I received it. It’s really nice, and I’m sure I’ll write more about the phone, its OS, and the dev tools later.)
What do you think of the keyboard on the G1? I have a Sidekick3 now, and use it for a lot of text-intensive usage, so that’s really the only sticking point to me getting one.
Katrus: While I haven’t done a ton of typing on it, I find it quite usable for a small device. I think the keys could use to stick out a little bit more, but they aren’t bad. The thing I don’t like about the keyboard is that the color combined with the backlight, in some lighting conditions, make the lettering on the keys nearly impossible to read. I also had this problem with a Powerbook I once had.