Today was a huge day for Android in the United Kingdom as hundred of people lined up in front of T-Mobile stores awaiting the launch of the T-Mobile G1. A T-Mobile spokeswoman said the first lines started to form around 5AM outside the T-mobile shop on Oxford Street in London.
Residents of the UK will be getting the T-Mobile G1 for free, with a £40-a-month contract. One customer that was first in line stated, “Being the first person in the UK to own this mobile phone is amazing – I’m going to be popular at work! I’ve been waiting for this phone for months and I knew I had to be the first to own it.”
The differences in the G1 launch here in the US as opposed to the launch in the UK are very few. In the UK the G1 is only available in Black and White where as in the US the colors available are Bronze and Black. There is still no explanation to why the colors were launched as they were. Aside from offering the G1 for free in the UK, you will also be getting a 2GB microSD card in place of the 1GB the US customers received.
though... they did line up by the hundreds. As far as i know the pre-launch deal in SF was the only one people really needed to line up for.
well arent we lucky to get it first
dnt we just feel like vips now??? haha
i dnt kno wht else to say
white && 2GB... talk about a rip off
i was 10 or 11 in the queue - when i left at around 8am there was a much longer queue - but probably 100 -200 customers in the morning total
B U L L S H I T !
Im gonna drive over and egg their headquarters!
I visited the Putney, London store for T-Mobile three times to demo the G1. On Saturday I was told that the store was given only one demo G1 and a customer had broken it. They said they expected to have a replacement demo by Sunday, Nov 2. I visited the store on Sunday but the phone replacement, which had arrived, was too low on battery and they were too busy to demo it. Today, Monday, I visited the store again and there was only one salesperson (usually there are two) and he has lots of complaints from two different customers: one on a Nokia phone and the other on some other handset (not G1). He had the back off one phone and was trying to fix it and said he could not demo the G1 because he was too busy. Again, he said the battery was low.
What gives? Is T Mobile serious in London or not? Putney High Street is a busy shopping street and if I am representative, they are just too understaffed to handle the traffic for G1.
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