We first got wind that T-Mobile had run through their initial allotment of pre-order G’s more than a week ago. A few days later we received word that T-Mobile tripled their order with ITCH for pre-order units (though they would not be delivered to customers on October 22). Now it seems like T-Mobile may have already pre-sold 1.5 million T-Mobile G’s.
T-Mobile and Google have a lot to prove with the G1. T-Mobile is using the phone as it’s anchor device for their 3G launch this month and Google needs to make sure the G1 launch goes off without a hitch since the success of Android could hang in the balance. If this news turns out to be true, the G1 has already sold nearly double what ITCH, Google, and T-Mobile had forecast for the entire year and we still have not started the holiday shopping season yet.
One other things to keep in mind is that the 1.5 million pre-ordered units are all going to existing T-Mobile customers. T-Mobile stores will be all stocked up on October 22 for those who want to get their hands on the G1 who are currently not T-Mobile customers. News like this is pretty exciting, but I’m sure we won’t be seeing people lined up outside T-Mobile stores as we saw with the iPhone release, but lets just hope we are wrong.
Source: Fool.com
