Google’s Android based phone pre-orders hit 1.5 million – should the iPhone be afraid?

The Android-based G1 phone from Google and HTC (and carried by T-Mobile) is creating strong word of mouth even before the device is officially released Oct. 22.

HTC G1

Several reliable sources claim total pre-orders for the device, which is based on Google’s open source Android mobile operating platform, have already hit 1.5 million units, which is pretty good for a phone not even released yet.

The G1 is expected to provide strong competition to Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s BlackBerry Storm. Should the iPhone and Apple start to be concerned? Perhaps. Early reviews of the release model will determine how much of a challenge to Apple it will pose.

Posted on Oct 15th, 2008 by Philip King in iPhones Talk | 8 Comments

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8 Comments to “Google’s Android based phone pre-orders hit 1.5 million – should the iPhone be afraid?”

  1. on 15 Oct 2008 at 1:03 pm1S Ballmer

    It is all BS unless T-Mobile comes out and say it. Neither
    T-Mobile nor Google is willing to make any comments.

  2. on 15 Oct 2008 at 10:43 pm2impaler

    I think Apple has nothing to worry about. Based on all the reviews I’ve read, I think they’re two different phones. Android will offer things–so will iPhone–but Apple has the tight media integration they’ll never have.

  3. on 16 Oct 2008 at 5:52 pm3iPhoneWit

    Whatever, iPhone is my favorite.

  4. on 17 Oct 2008 at 10:36 am4tony

    I don’t the iphone should worried. Also I don’t think the peeps from ‘Without a Trace’ will want to spend time fiddling around with this when they are so used to the iphone already ;-)

  5. on 24 Oct 2008 at 1:51 am5Gareth

    Well I hope its better than the iPhone which appart from the intereface isn’t that good.

    What I want is: support for flac, be able to run skype and a decent camera

  6. on 24 Oct 2008 at 5:18 pm6Zack

    Google phone can run skype from what I hear. I am pretty excited about it.

    A couple of my friends have gone through several Iphones so I am not really wanting one of them after their experiences. The open access concept behind Android is neat, a lot of providers around where I live try to lock down phones and “sell” you back the features that you already have built in to your phone. Hopefully the google licensing agreement will mean they are not able to disable email, maps, gps, etc like they do on their standard phones.

    I really look forward to when a few more models are out so there is a choice of provider and feature sets. That is really exciting to me. So I can get the best features and coverage for my money.

  7. on 02 Nov 2008 at 12:25 pm7leslie

    how do i get my hotmail to me g phone
    anyone know ?

  8. on 06 Mar 2010 at 3:22 am8Ham Guy

    Phone that has moving parts is always the weak point hope that this will last more than year without problem on the display.

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