T-Mobile USA Says It Sold Triple The Amount Of G1 Pre-Orders Ori

T-Mobile USA Says It Sold Triple The Amount Of G1 Pre-Orders Originally Anticipated
Friday October 3, 7:55 pm ET
By Tricia Duryee


T-Mobile USA issued a statement today, updating customers on how they can be one of the first people to get their hands on the first Google (NasdaqGS: GOOG - News) Android phone called the G1. A spokesperson said: Given the great anticipation and the heavy pre-sale demand for the T-Mobile G1 with Google, we nearly tripled the number of phones initially available for delivery on our Oct. 22 launch date, and have sold through them all. The demand is not unexpected that the Web site and customer call phone lines were tied up for hours after the announcement was made on Sept. 23. This may give some more weight to a report that leaked out on Wednesday, which said T-Mobile is planning to sell up to 500,000 of the phones this quarter and may order up to 2 million devices from handset-maker HTC in the near future.