T-Mobile has totally overshot their sales expectations for the G1. After selling out their entire stock of pre-orders for existing members in a very short period of time, HTC tripled the order and has sold out of that entire batch as well. That means that 1.5 million G1s have already been sold in pre-orders on top of the millions estimated to be shipping to stores for sales on October 22nd.
Selling such a high number of devices with an unproven software concept on a never-before-seen device is absolutely astounding. Google has a lot riding on this particular device, showing the world what Android can do could either make or break the platform as a whole. That is why Google has worked so closely with HTC and T-Mobile, to make sure that “the first shot in this battle is a killer”.
Google went all out on this device, making it fully search enabled. Though it does not go out to directly take on the iPhone, people continually compare the two. Google has shown its commitment to this platform in every way. One clear example of this is the Android Developers Contest where Google paid out $10 million to the winners. The twist is that Google will not be taking back a dime of this money in application sales. This will in the end lower the cost of applications, making this a win-win situation for developers and customers.
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im going to brag about this at work today !!
Even without commercials this thing is selling like hotcakes.
hmmmmmm hotcakes.
Agreed, this is beyond iphones capabilities in both OS and company mantra.
we are dealing with a new breed of phone/internet device. I'm pretty excited my self about the possibilities this brings to the market.
"... if you build it, they will come..."
I would definitely be happy if it were true.. but this guy has no source for his number..
simple equation or approx 2mil G1s in ccirculation by year end, 10 percent purchase the same app, is not bad for the developers. But keep it free for as long as you can until the second generation android phones get released.
You would think T-mo would do a press release, but I guess they are sticking with their plan...which is what exactly?
Should we be concerned about the initial quality and performance?
I love Google
its to much of a good thing
ud have to be crazy to pass
this one.
1.5 million is nothing, they will expand if they have to
"How will T-Mobile's 3G network handle the sudden addition of over a million handsets practically overnight?
Should we be concerned about the initial quality and performance?"
Should we be concerned about the initial quality and performance?
However, I'll bet you can fry an egg on the automated activation servers on the morning of the 22nd.
1.5 million is nothing, they will expand if they have to
"How will T-Mobile's 3G network handle the sudden addition of over a million handsets practically overnight?
Should we be concerned about the initial quality and performance?"
Mark my words: They have NOT sold 1.5M pre-orders. In fact, I would bet they're nowhere close to that number. Not even in the same neighborhood. I've seen the numbers and can pretty well tell how they put them together, and it's flawed, to say the least.
The sales figures confirm what I already knew.
Mark my words: They have NOT sold 1.5M pre-orders. In fact, I would bet they're nowhere close to that number. Not even in the same neighborhood. I've seen the numbers and can pretty well tell how they put them together, and it's flawed, to say the least.
I'm hoping that I'm wrong, but really, to me it sounds almost impossible.
I'm hoping that I'm wrong, but really, to me it sounds almost impossible.
I'm guessing you two are just a couple iTards trolling.
The numbers, as it has been noted elsewhere, were from early reports that T-Mobile was PROJECTING selling 500,000 by the end of the year, and then another report that they had sold out of the initial pre-order and tripled the initial order from HTC. SOmeone just took the 500,000 to be the initial order # (VERY likely to be very wrong), and multiplied by 3. Thus, 1.5M. But the actual initial order was probably actually in the low 10s of thousands. And T_Mobile hasn't even said they've sold out of all the tripled up first order. Just that they sold out of the initial number, and tripled the order. There are going to be a lot of people disappointed. But go ahead...flame away.
I'm guessing you two are just a couple iTards trolling.
I try to be open minded and not just take any report as official if there are no reliable sources.
And this is only 2008, and only Tmobile. Dare i say it, it will be a massacre for the iPhone, and anything else that stands in the way of Android.
I think anyone who knows google and what google can do has no doubt.
Tmobile said they expected to sell 500k units by the end of the year..
so Motley fool assumed that it means that they had 500k at pre-release in stock... and when Tmobile said that they triple their stock and are still sold out.. .Motley fool assumed that they triple the 500k in stock.. which would be 1.5 milllion
so yea it's flawed.. very flawed...
so marketing to sell more phones...
i dont know i sorta believe the 1.5 million and i allso want to be proven wrong
~100000 units presold as of 10-9-08. Here is the truth:
http://forums.tmonews.com/index.php?...5&topic=3373.0
Sorry just could not resist
JK thats awesome though, congrats!
~100000 units presold as of 10-9-08. Here is the truth:
http://forums.tmonews.com/index.php?...5&topic=3373.0
I was told that I would recieve my "G" by Oct.20 and was told that it comes with a Case as well. I hope all is True. Anyway 4Days until Xmas!!!! LOL!
I want to see how accurate the 1.5mill on devies was. hehe
so far...i think it's ok...i like the google talk app, but my keyboard seems very hard to see when the backlight is on and i'm in a semi lit area.
all the GPS, and retna and bar code scanning apps i'm reading about really kinda freak me out.
--corey