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G1 is free on £40/month from T-Mobile

Started by Ewan · 8 months ago

25,000 people have registered their interest for the G1 on T-Mobile UK’s site.
I guess that means I won’t be in with much of a chance to win one. But this does point to a lot of interest from the UK mobile community.
It most certainly won’t get the iPhone- ... Continue reading »

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  • Al Sutton

    8 months ago

    25,000 isn't such a great figure when O2 were reporting 200,00 iPhone pre-registrations after the Steve Jobs iPhone 3G keynote.

    There's also an issue with the price. At the moment the T-mobile website lists Combi 35 and Flext 40 @ 31.50, so do you pay the extra 8.50 a month just because you have a G1?, over a two year contract that means you're looking at paying 204 quid for the 'phone.

    The other problem they face is a "what if" one... What if people don't like it?, if you dribble it out and it's not taken up you just end up with a pool of unsold 'phones, because it's geekier and bulkier than the N96, it's easily beaten by the camera and audio features in most phones in the same price bracket (no headphone socket.. I ask you), and it's not corporate enough to match the Blackberry or Windows Mobile devices, so what if it's squarely aimed at a market that ends up not being big enough to support it?

    Am I getting one... not in the first batch... maybe I'll wait for the G1 2.0 :).
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  • Al Sutton

    8 months ago

    Correction to last post, O2 are reporting 200,000 ... the last zero got eaten by the dog ;).
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  • jdbradford

    8 months ago

    This is all great ... but have a couple of questions

    1. Can you get the phone on any other tariff? I don't need lots of mins and texts are irrelevant if I can email/twitter

    2. Are these going to be available in the "usual outlets" or is this a TMob store only deal?
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  • Mac Morrison

    8 months ago

    well as you've done a rather good job of advertising it for them - i think they should give you a free one.

    mac
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  • Ewan

    8 months ago

    I have to buy mine like anyone else. Arse.
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  • worldofnokia

    8 months ago

    stores will have a life REAL WORKING G1 by end of next week if anyone wants to pop along to your local store to have a look.
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  • paul

    8 months ago

    you have got to check out http://www.g1tube.com

    A great site for all the latest android videos
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