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Android’s first phone, the G1 on T-Mobile, was originally pitched to sell around 400,000 units before the year was done. Based on some fresh orders to manufacturer HTC, apparently the G1 has already reached 1.5 million sales in pre-orders alone, with lots more on the way once it hits shelves on October 22nd. The hardware design has left a lot of folks unimpressed (after all, the thing hasn’t changed in about two and a half years), but the massively open source nature of the project will bait in a lot of developers and give the G1 plenty of software fighting juice to run on. Clearly customers are buying into the strategy, but here’s hoping some of the other manufacturers out there will make something more visually appealing before the Android hype dies down.
[Motley Fool via AndroidGuys]
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
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