It's still a great phone though
October 30th 2008 | Reader comments (0)
Attending the launch of the T-Mobile G1 was a mixed bag this morning... a bag of being too warm because I wrapped up with too many layers anticipating sub-zero temperatures mixed in with joy at actually seeing people queuing for the handset.
There was a part of me that thought there may genuinely be nobody outside the launch given that T-Mobile had decided against publicising it in the same way as Apple/O2 had with the iPhone 3G.
But around 25 people turned up in the morning, and to be fair to the T-Mobile store staff, the branded umbrellas, the coffee and the pastries were all there too in order to keep spirits high.
And there was a genuine buzz around the store when the first people went up to the tills to buy the first handset. But the problem with this launch isn't the way it was handled - it's the handset itself that should make people worry.
Clues
The real clue behind the likelihood of this handset succeeding came when I spoke to Richard Warmseley, T-Mobile's Head of Internet and Entertainment.
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