T-Mobile’s G1 aka the Googlephone was released to an excited (and nerdy) public back on October 21st last year. The verdict back then was that the Android OS was pretty good, but needed work, and that the HTC handset was a piece of junk, featuring a big, thumb-annoying lump of plastic next to the keyboard and a generally underpowered computer inside.
So its a surprise to us to find out that, just six months later, the G1 has sold a million units. That’s a healthy number for a pretty non-hyped (in the real, non-geek world at least) handset. By contrast, it took Apple just 74 days to shift a million iPhones, or just over two months. Another interesting tidbit is that the total number of 3G phones sold by T-Mobile in the US in the same six-month period was 1.5 million. This shows just how successful the G1 has been.
Now, if only HTC can fix the five-minute battery life for the G2, we’re on.
Press release [T-mobile via ★]
Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com
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