Mobile Industry Review - Latest Comments in G1 is free on £40/month from T-Mobile

Re: G1 is free on £40/month from T-Mobile

paul — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:56:51 -0000

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

A great site for all the latest android videos

Re: G1 is free on £40/month from T-Mobile

worldofnokia — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:09:36 -0000

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.

Re: G1 is free on £40/month from T-Mobile

smstextnews — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:49:24 -0000

I have to buy mine like anyone else. Arse.

Re: G1 is free on £40/month from T-Mobile

mostlythis — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:01:23 -0000

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

mac

Re: G1 is free on £40/month from T-Mobile

jdbradford — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:45:59 -0000

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?

Re: G1 is free on £40/month from T-Mobile

Al Sutton — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:34:31 -0000

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

Re: G1 is free on £40/month from T-Mobile

Al Sutton — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:33:13 -0000

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 :).