It's official; T-Mobile G1 Android 1.5 update coming next week
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The update features the following improvements:
- An on screen full QWERTY keyboard.
- Video record and playback capabilities.
- Easy uploading of photos to Picasa and videos to YouTube.
Since I mainly use my G1 as a "hobby" phone I went ahead and rooted and updated it already with the JF ROM and am quite happy with my G1. I may take it back to stock condition and wait for the update, but this JF update adds in multi-touch pinch and zoom to the browser so it may be a better custom ROM to stick with instead of the official ROM.
You can find additional details on the Android 1.5 update on the T-Mobile G1 forum or at the Android site.