Last week, my husband and I switched over to T-Mobile. We had some problems with our Sprint phones and service, and finally decided it was time to change companies. We were uncertain of T-Mobile because they are a smaller company. I was worried our coverage wouldn’t be very good. But I was definitely wrong. So far our coverage has been wonderful.

However, this review isn’t really about T-Mobile, but their G1 phone with Android. Andriod is Google’s cell phone software. It works beautifully. If you use a lot of Google services, like Gmail and Google Calendar, this is the phone for you. Even if you don’t use these services now, you may want to switch and start using them. They all use your Google/Gmail log-in and password and work together. Basically, this phone, and the Google services just plain work. My phone hasn’t frozen up or glitched once yet.

The app store, Android Market, has just about any application you would want to put on your phone. My favorite right now is Twidroid, the Twitter application. I also have the Weather Channel app, Night Clock, and a few others. Since anybody can make an app, they don’t always work. I always read the reviews before downloading them to see if other people like it. If you don’t like it, it’s very easy to uninstall and try something else.

That’s the best part of this phone. It’s extremely customizable. You can choose which icons you want on your main screens, where on the screen you want them, assign ringtones from the music on your SD card, install just about any app you want, and a lot more. The only downside is, because it does so much, it uses up a lot of battery power. This isn’t too horrible, because it charges via USB. If you sit at your computer all day, you can just plug the phone directly into a USB port and charge up.

It’s also pretty inexpensive. You can get it from Amazon for under $100.