G1 News

We reported about this earlier, the clever TyeBrye was able to get multi-touch working on the G1, but his site was a mass of text explaining in excruciating detail exactly what he had done.

However, he has now brought what we all really wanted…video! Now you can see the T-Mobile G1 tracking both of his beautiful talented coding fingers at once…

Magical.

We thought that the new Android handset wasn’t quite the roaring success many hoped, hence a bunch of cheap T-Mobile G1 deals appearing on websites less than a month after the UK launch.

However, word from HTC and T-Mobile is that the G1 is on course to do a “Christina” by the end of 2008!

Christina? Milian? A million, get it?

Anyway…the initial projection they had was a healthy 600,000 units across all territories, which has recently be upscaled to around 1,000,000 according to HTC CEO Peter Chou.

Not affected by the recession, he was also glad to readjust his projections for sales of the HTC Touch Diamond up from 2 to 3 million.

Don’t forget despite all the interweb getting moist at the prospect, they are talking about shipping a million, not selling a million.

By the same token, Atari “shipped” hundreds of thousands of unsold copies of E.T. into a hole in New Mexico in 1983. Those G1s could fly off the shelves or gather dust in a storeroom, but we will hope for the former!

Source: Digitimes

I had a dream last night that I went onto the Android Marketplace and found thousands upon thousands of new, brilliant, innovative apps including one which changed the entire interface, NXE-style.

I was overjoyed! Unfortunately, when I woke…it was not to be. What there was, however, excited me almost as much!

A beta for Opera mini 4.2 Android edition was sitting there, bold as brass and waiting to be taken for a spin! As brilliant as the integrated T-Mobile G1 browser is, it is refreshing to have a browser that is slightly more intuitive to use (particularly the responsiveness of zooming), and syncing my bookmarks from Daddy Opera is a nice touch!

Granted, my bookmarks were from around three years ago when I last used Opera on the PC, but it was cool to browse GameSpot and Maddox again! Like a trip down internet memory lane…

Seeing big boys like Macromedia and Opera pledge their support for Android so openly is encouraging, we hope more jump aboard and keep bringing positives over the competition to everyone’s attention!