T-Mobile said that it has sold 1 million Google Android-powered G1 smartphones since the device’s launch in October 2008, according to Macworld.
That number falls short of the 3.7 million first-generation iPhones Apple sold during the same time period back in the second half of 2007. But given the tremendous hype surrounding the iPhone at launch time, the one million number isn’t bad at all for the G1–and roughly on par with another high-profile device, the BlackBerry Storm. Although that device sold one million in about two months before sales slowed, so even that one is ahead of the G1.
Regardless of the level of success the T-Mobile G1 has seen, we’re all still waiting to see more Android-powered devices–an increasingly worrisome proposition, given Google’s apparent lack of follow-through, device vendors’ polite-but-unaggressive support, and the lack of any enthusiasm whatsoever on the part of U.S. wireless carriers.
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