Unconvincing : T-Mobile Pre-Sells 1.5 Million HTC G1 Android Phones
T-Mobile alleged that it had tripled its first supply of Android phones, but it hadn’t supplied an actual number. Directly we know: 1.5 million people have pre-ordered the G1, set to go on sale Oct. 22.
That’s an irrational amount of concern for such a device. Certainly, Apple says that it sold 1 million 3G iPhones the first weekend the device was available, and that’s pleasant. But here follows T-Mobile, the nation’s fourth-largest wireless network operator, coming up with 1.5 million pre-orders on a brand new mobile platform.
HTC must be alongside itself with fervor. The Taiwanese firm that is inventing the G1 has had enough of success with its Touch line of Windows Mobile smartphones, but this is over-the-top. HTC was picturing that it would sell several hundred thousand G1s by the end of 2008. To learn that 1.5 million people have pre-ordered it is unbelievable.