T-Mobile has sold 100,000 G1 Android phones

Posted by David Walker on Tue 28 Apr 2009

New Android phone also incoming for summer

Good news for owners of the T-Mobile G1 handset - an update is incoming for your Android phone, offering up a raft of new features.

T-Mobile has announced that the Android 1.5 'Cupcake' update will be rolled out from today, but will probably hit UK phones sometime in May. Plenty of new stuff to get your hands on too, including a new touchscreen keypad, video recording and playback (plus direct upload to YouTube), copy and paste within a faster browser, in-page search, improved Google Talk friends' status, accelerometer-based apps, direct Picasa upload, faster GPS, stereo Bluetooth support and general refinements to key tools on the phone (email, browser, SMS, calendar and so on). Phew!

Will that be enough to tempt you into shelling out £30 each month for a G1? T-Mobile hopes so and with reported sales of 100,000 sales in the UK in the first six months, the company has been reasonably successful so far. But as it's been the only Android handset on the market so far, decent sales figures were pretty much assured. Things might be a little different when the Vodafone-backed Magic and the Samsung i7500 hit the market, along with a new handset from T-Mobile itself - details of which are currently under wraps.

It's also a long way behind the iPhone 3G. To put it into perspective, Apple sold 3.8 million iPhones in the last quarter alone worldwide and is believed to be selling around 27,000 iPhones in the UK each week. Suddenly that 100,000 figure doesn't sound so great.

Link: T-Mobile

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