T-Mobile G1

Several months after the official launch of the T-Mobile G1, I have yet to see the second commercially available Android-based mobile phone. The title of “Second Android-based mobile phone” is still up for grabs since someone has yet to deliver on their promises and someone has yet to blog about their just delivered Android mobile phone.

As far as I am concerned, all of these articles going around the Net is simply just vaporware and marketing hype. Poised to come out with an Android-based mobile phones next year are companies like Motorola, Asus, Toshiba, Vodafone and Sony Ericsson.

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With the mixed opinions on how well the T-mobile G1 Android based mobile phone performed against the Apple iPhone, it looks like Nokia is sending a loud message — “Watch and learn boys!”

I really love the idea of having an open mobile platform such as Android because of the freedom and possibilities it gives to mobile phone owners but I guess I will have to wait a while before the mobile platform will mature. Apple with its exquisite engineering prowess has always led the world in creating great engineering worksmanships like the iPod, Macbook and the iPhone.

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Looks to me like a lot of people wants to get hold of the Android-based G1 mobile phone (me included) ‘coz T-Mobile just sold 1.5 million of them on pre-order alone. And to top that T-Mobile has ordered another 2 million from HTC (wow, looks like HTC is going to have a wonderful Christmas).

The G1 mobile phone is expected to hit the shelves in a week or so. Even though people have expressed some dissatisfaction with the first Android-base mobile phone’s features 1.5 million people have still pre-ordered the cell phone.

Once it hit the shelves, it would really be interesting to see what people will do with the mobile phone. I’m sure some guys are just itching to get their orders to start hacking the phone.

Just read some leaked info of the very, very soon to be released T-Mobile G1 Android-based mobile phone. Looks like it will have a 3.1 megapixel camera but no video capture. No stereo bluetooth either. Supports only 65K colors on a 480×320 screen. No corporate email and gmail is required. You can read more at the TmoNews post.

With just moments away from the launch of the very first mobile phone to use Android open mobile platform, the T-mobile web site to launch the HTC Dream based mobile phone of T-mobile is already up and running.

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