G1 News

Waiting for some cheap G1 deals before getting involved with Android? Well, the Android-powered T-Mobile G1 has managed to become available for $98 on Amazon USA – $80 lower than its November release cost.

The $98 is only for new customers, so unfortunately existing T-Mobile converts can’t get involved. However, it’s only a matter of time before they cut prices across the board themselves, making the most unique handset on the market even more appealing to the masses.

Source: Network World

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