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Holy Cow - 1.5 million T-Mobile G1s Pre-Ordered!!!

October 12, 2008

According to Darren Murph, “1.5 million T-Mobile G1s already pre-ordered“  Really?  The article explains that 1.5 million G1s with Google’s Android operating system have been pre-ordered and that T-Mobile has reserved 2 million for retail stores.  Really?  These numbers are MUCH higher than we were lead to believe.  Our ShopSavvy application for Android has been optimized for a launch of up-to 600,000 handsets (assuming they all use ShopSavvy).  We better add about ten servers if we want to be able to handle 1.5 million handsets.  I will check on these numbers and let you know what I find out.

UPDATE: These numbers are bullsh*t. HTC is only making 600,000 to 700,000 units this year in the U.S. - i.e. they don’t have the capacity to build more, period.

Written by Alexander Muse · Filed Under Blog, Startups 

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