Notifications are highly configurable and you can setup customized alerts for each category. Unfortunately, you can’t configure based on time of day just yet. This app would integrate wonderfully with Locale – imagine if the app knew not to disturb you while you were at your workplace and held off notifications until you left. There are already a wealth of categories or channels available with the app. Enough to suit all tastes. If you like being pinged about the latest events around your city, this is a fantastic G1 app and can also come in handly while traveling.

The time limit gets around any privacy concerns you might have with disclosing your current location. You can send Glympses via email, test message, or tweets. You can pick the list of people you share your location with dynamically – so there’s no need to create a profile, add friends, and that sort of thing. Your Glympses are also fully visible on a regular website browser, so your friends don’t need to be running the app for it to be useful. Overall, this is a very useful application with almost no downsides in terms of privacy concerns – a must-download for those with active social lives and frequent travelers.

Offline syncing is quick and the app clearly shows progress status as the sync is happening. Spotify also syncs with the desktop application – anything you do on the desktop app will be reflected surprisingly quickly on the G1 itself. You can drag songs into the mobile folder on the desktop app to move songs to your smartphone. The interface is very clean and the tabbed player gets out of the way to let you play with other controls even as a song is playing. Playlist management is intuitive and powerful. Overall, this is a great new music streaming app for the G1. 

Under the menu you can buy and share apps as well as set bookmarks and change settings. You can create a Pandora account from within the app and creating new radio stations is identical to the process on the website – you can search based on the song title, album name, or singer. Pandora can be a little heavy on the battery-life on your G1, so keep an eye on that battery meter as you use this app. You can toggle between a high quality stream and a lower-quality one for slower networks. Both are very good, and only true audiophiles may notice the difference for certain soundtracks. Overall, this is a great app for the G1, and comes after a long wait. 

Swiping left on the keyboard shifts between compact and full qwerty, while swiping left toggles the status of the symbol entry keyboard. There’s also a T9 version that allows you to multi-tap a key to work through the letters. Long pressing the “123?” key takes you to the settings screen for Better Keyboard. The app also integrates with search boxes to do auto-completion, making searches that much faster. There’s a heathy supply of skins on the Android Market for Better Keyboard. Skins range across various colors and can be applied to both the compact and full version qwerty. Better Keyboard is $2.99 on the market, and well worth the price if you prefer a soft-keyboard over the hard one. 

Qik allows you configure titles, descriptions, and other parameters before beginning streaming. The interface is simple, intuitive, and discoverable. While the app defaults to sharing your live videos publicly on the Qik website, you can chose to enable a private mode that you can share only with friends and family if you prefer. The streaming video has really low latency as mentioned before, and does not stutter or skip even on relatively busy Wi-Fi channels. This is a one of a kind service that allows you to stream live video from your T-Mobile G1. 

Since the app is customized to the list of News feeds, specific idiosyncrasies of each site are taken into account, and make the reading experience significantly better. For instance, photo albums for certain News sources are presented in a manner that makes browsing them significantly better than in the browser. The app also lets you add your own feeds and comes in multiple languages, English and Chinese being the major ones for now. You cannot sync with Google Reader or any other other major web-based reader at presents, and there’s really no way to share specific items with your network. Apart from these small drawbacks, this a fantastic app for the casual News reader as well as the hardcore News junkie on the T-Mobile G1. 

The app comes with an associated website. CardioTrainer automatically uploads your training statistics from your T-Mobile G1 to the server so you can see more advanced breakdowns of your activities as well as compare against your histories. There’s a very neat add-on to the app that costs $2.99 that lets you race against yourself to motivate you to improve your times and other metrics. The app itself is free and available on the Android Market now. If sharing your goals helps with your motivation, you can use the facebook app associated with CardioTrainer to share select aspects of your training with your network. 

The Sherpa application has a carousal interface that is easy to use and comes in handy when you need to execute multiple actions within the application. Selecting a specific restaurant or other establishment pulls up reviews, ratings, and other relevant information including hours of operation and the address. Mapping and directions are fast and accurate. This app can replace any number of other directory and restaurant applications on your G1. Sherpa is an advanced discovery and recommendation application for the T-Mobile G1. 

The custom lock screen is optional, but is pretty unobtrusive and still offers other useful information such as battery status and a clock layered over your existing wallpaper. If you decide to not set this new lock screen as your default, it is recommended that you set the app icon on your home screen for easy access. The app comes with useful notifications and tips so that emergency personnel know what to do once they find your G1. This is one of the better health-related G1 apps, and a great tool for anyone with potentially urgent medical concerns.