T-Mobile G1 pre-orders: 1.5 million units and going strong

Congrats to them!! But just like the iphone when it first came out, a good portion of that 1.5M is going in the grey market overseas.

this phone just “odd” to me, sort of disproportional, especially the ~1/4″ gap between the bottom end of the screen and the row of buttons… the phone simply looks too tall, in respect to its’ width… BUT since i am a sole believer of function>form, i will most likely consider buying this device, especially since it comes in white >:] i am planning to get this or the BB storm by the year’s end…

Let’s face it every T-Mobile customer has been waiting forever for this phone and that’s pretty much the number one reason for the 1.5 million preordered. Let’s just remember none of these phones has been sold to anyone but existing T-Mobile customers so far. It hasn’t even been made available to the public yet so this is all just T-Mobile customers getting their “dream” phone. I for one am T-Mobile customer/employee using a 2g iphone but have it sold already for my G1. I have gotten to use the phone for a while and it impressed me. It does have some cons but I am willing to live with those especially if I can live with the flaws that the iphone has. At least now I will never have to worry about an updated software locking my phone or taking away my 3rd party applications just so I can send a mms or record video. Oh and I seriously doubt the T-Mobile customers preordering these phones are ONLY getting them to unlock and sell them over seas. Remember the first apple iphones were made easy to unlock by apple first. Apple allowed people to buy the phone and not sign a contract but activate in store. So you have the perfect phone to sell over seas, but this G1 requires a 2 yr contract so not so many of those will be just to sell.

if it wasnt for hardly any t-mobile coverage in my area i would get one, its nice to see a new face in the world of symbian, Win Mo, BB OS, and the retarded iphone lol.

Actually, the engadget post gets its info from the motley fool article. So, is there any other source

The G1 in the photo looks much like the original Palm Pilot (’96-’97?). Fragile plastic. Better have some glue on hand just in case.

Regardless of what anyone says the G1 is a ugly phone with a dated look. Not to mention these numbers. Sound super inflated when the phone finally drops we will see real numbers

THIS PHONE SEEMS TO HAVE EVERYTHING BUT WE SECRETLY DONT WANT EVERYTHING

WE LIKE THE LIMITATION SET ON US BY OUR [NO WIFI BBs] + [CANT CUT PASTE iPHONEs] + [PIECE OF SHIT SERVICE NOKIAs]

idk if we can handel another phone in the loop THAT MEANS [PALM] YOU ARE OUT

I’m a T-Mobile employee, and have been using the G1 for about a week(in a non-3g market, mind you) and am very impressed with the device overall. There are a few drawbacks I.e. No video capture,no zoom or flash on the camera, no stereo bt etc. But, it does a lot of cool stuff too, like it has an accelorometer for gaming a la itouch, the shop savvy feature which let’s you scan a barcode, the device finds the product on the web for cheaper, lots of cool little android apps that should definitely keep the customers suprised. With that being said, I won’t be purchasing the G1 until my particular market has gone 3g, as I advise others to hold off as well. The web is much slower than my Curve, and you can’t access the gps(unless you want to wait for 5 min) or watch streaming video. I think overall it’s going to be a great device for Tmobile, and can’t wait to see how the Android OS evolves…oh, and by the way, it’s a pretty cool looking phone, definitely not fisher price!

WOW!! FLAME WARS!! AWESOME OH WOW LIKE TOTALLY FREAK ME OUT I MEAN RIGHT ON!! BGR SURE IS NUMBER ONE!

Marc – Your writing is perfectly fine. This is a damned blog, not Wall Street Journal. Blogs are supposed to be fun, spunky, and geek speak. You already know your doing your job, so fuck all them bitches.

Lovers of the G1 – Android = WIN. HTC G1 = LOSS. The phone is the most ugliest phone HTC has come out with in a while, it looks cheap, and I wont ever buy this version, however, thats not saying Android isnt THE BEST OS since…well… EVER!

Haters of the G1 – Apple isnt #1, and likely wont be anytime soon. GET OVER IT. I know many people with the iPhone (I had one for 3 days) and while its nice, its not perfect, no OS is. Its not fair to compare or put down something thats new..especially one that will, and yes, it WILL revolutionize the way we use our phones. GET OVER IT

And lastly, Id like to say… “If you dont like T-Mobile.. DONT FUCKING USE THEM!”

Nice to G1 begin to emerge past all the pre-pre-pre-release hype. Now it’s just pre-release hype! I don’t care if device good or bad, successful or not, T-Mobile or other carriers. I do love a device that might push the iPhone, Blackberries, WinMobile, etc. We all win with choice and better phones. Except for the jackass-nation that feels compelled to choose a favorite and subsequently find fault will everything else.

The reason for the success of this phone has nothing to do with its greatness or what people have heard about it. It could have the worst OS in the world and it wouldn’t matter to T-Mobile costumers. I’ve been around them all my life and to them this is just simply the newest Sidekick, and the hottest phone out with a QWERTY keyboard on their network.
T-Mobile costumers only care about the cool factor and being the first with the hottest ‘Sidekick’ out and HTC/Google were smart in making the G1 just that, a new QWERTY phone with a touch screen. The teen crowd loves that and that is why it’s selling out so fast. Every T-Mobile customer I know, unless they are business centric with a Windows Mobile phone, which is like 1%, has already ordered this phone and none of them, honestl, know anything about it. All they know is that it is the newest T-emporary Mobile phone coming out and it looks like the Sidekick. Stroke of genius what HTC did. I hated the design but now I can definitely see why they went that route. If they had brought this phone to any other provider in that form factor it’s selling point would not have been as high…AT ALL.

^^^honeslty** point of correction