T-Mobile goes live with G1 website

It's one thing to appear on a website before being officially outed. It's another to have a web portal designed specifically for a handset. On the eve of its official debut in the Big Apple, T-Mobile has launched the definitive G1 website, complete with a G1 logo, the time and date of tomorrow's press event, a few tabs sure to be chock full of juicy details just as soon as said event closes, and most importantly, a pre-order button (of sorts) in order to sign up for what we can only fathom to be a notification of availability. 10:30AM tomorrow morning -- we'll be there, you'll be there.

[phanbouy @ Sep 22nd 2008 9:59PM]

wait... so there's an Android thing tomorrow? first i've heard of it!

[The Dude @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:05PM]

r u liek, trying 2 b ironical???

[phanbouy @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:18PM]

i r soo ironiconical

[Heshmati4 @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:01PM]

Well see if Android lives up to it's hype tomorrow when it is shown to the public. I'm still spectacle about Android, but nonetheless I have high hopes.

[phanbouy @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:05PM]

"I'm still spectacle about Android"

can i just go ahead and pass along some manlove for that statement?

[The Dude @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:09PM]

Firefox spell check strikes again, I bet.

[Craig @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:52PM]

FIAL!

[TheAzureKnight @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:03PM]

I'm ambivalent about Android as a whole.

My one advice to them is to pick a better mascot/logo. The current "android" looks about as fugly as the G1...

[phanbouy @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:04PM]

ok.. the logo? now you're just hating for a hobby. find a more productive compulsion, dude

[TheAzureKnight @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:10PM]

I'm honestly not hating. I respect what they are trying to do. I'm just thinking about it from a marketing standpoint. Truth be told I'm all for competition. If Android is better than WM7 then more power to it.

I think that all these phones have some good features to them. The iPhone is a good phone with a nice OS and interface. Hopefully the G1 is the same...however from the visual standpoint it has a lot of catching up to do with the iPhone.

Anyways by the time the Touch HD comes out we'll see if Android can be put on it.

[deyanimay @ Sep 22nd 2008 11:12PM]

Your cruising for a bruising.

[Game_playa @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:04PM]

Hopefully it will get Open Office Mini or something like that.

[marty @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:09PM]

probably google docs and spreadsheets dude.

[suprafanatic26 @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:05PM]

G1 on any other phone??or only android..? -> that comes out when ??

[yoyodude64 @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:10PM]

FAIL. android is the OS, G1 is the device

[Game_playa @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:22PM]

LOL

[Jeremy K. @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:08PM]

omgomgomg

The "Get it first!" button makes me happy.

[gonintendo @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:10PM]

omgomgomgomgomgomg

Me Too!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[MastrCake @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:08PM]

Anybody else notice the "about 3g" tab?

Well, I didn't know it had it...

[Albert @ Sep 23rd 2008 12:20AM]

Yes, T-Mobile launched its 3G network!

[vin @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:09PM]

i think the g1 will come out for htc, but later on other phone company's will pick it up too..
i still think that the G1 pictures online are not real and could be fake, and that Google is hiding this..

[MastrCake @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:13PM]

Isn't the HTC Dream the G1?

And given the fact that the phone in those G1 pics have been used since Google demoed Android, I don't think they're fake.

[GaryZ @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:13PM]

anybody else thinks that this website is poorly designed? neither color nor layout is coherent, like bits and pieces scattered all around...

[Ben @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:14PM]

Yep website looks as poor as anything

[Valicore @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:31PM]

That was my thought as well. It's just seems slapped together by someone in a beginning flash class. It goes along with the way the "G1" looks. Damn it, this is Google, all that damn money and they couldn't have made a hotter phone? ·sulks·

[Jon Doe. @ Sep 23rd 2008 12:48AM]

Umm its not Google its T Mobile. god people. Learn where one company ends and another begins before you bitch about something.

[PEZ @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:26PM]

HOW MUCH INSUBSIDZED! IM FREAKIN OUT!

[Vik @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:26PM]

any suggestions on how to get out of my at&t contract?

[luis @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:28PM]

this is nice!!!!!!! http://announcement.t-mobileg1.com/g1_images/google_g1_phone.jpg

[Jeremy K. @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:32PM]

zomg! You've found it!

[jake @ Sep 22nd 2008 11:23PM]

There are 3 more I found on the site, but I'm not sure it's worthwhile to post given everyone will see it soon, but I'll post it anyways. But I'm curious how you found your link given I couldn't find that file using the method I used to find the other ones.

http://announcement.t-mobileg1.com/g1_images/google_g1_phone_group.jpg
http://announcement.t-mobileg1.com/g1_images/google_g1_phone_maps.jpg
http://announcement.t-mobileg1.com/g1_images/google_g1_phone_desktop.jpg

[Yaniv @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:33PM]

OMG!!
I cant handle this anymore..... NEED TO HAVE.
MUST TO HAVE PHONE.... LIFE TO BE BETTER WITH GPHONE.
HAPPINESS WILL BE MINE!!!

[dnyyanks62 @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:35PM]

Doesn't look so bad to me. People are just spoiled these days with their sexy and promiscuous phones. I'm excited no matter what it looks like, because being with T-Mobile, there's not much to choose from and it's about time my 4 year RAZR saw the door.

[taylor @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:43PM]

EPICCCCC!!!!!!!!! this makes me happy in the shorts! i cant wait! and superfanatic26....that was an epic fail. yoyodude64 i upped you rank for the comment. keep em straight!

[kashkha @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:47PM]

One of the Google HR reps at a Tech Talk at my school today had a G1 on him. I caught him playing with it outside the hall, but he claimed he wasn't supposed to use it in public, and wouldn't let me have a second look. From the brief glimpse I got, it looked thinner than it did in the pictures available online.

[phoneman @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:49PM]

so pretty much i have had my speculation but i like this phone. i currently have tmo i have the sidekick lx and im tired of it it is to little kiddish and i am looking for something more grown up and i think i have found it. tmo really needs better phones because all they have is blackberrys(buisness people) sidekicks(youth) and the wing which is old now. only thing that sucks is that 3g coverage ends about 15 miles away from my house=/ any1 know when it will rach san bernardino?

[nick @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:47PM]

I'm sorry, I've tried so hard to like Android become it truly is what I believe to be the future of mobile phone platforms. Something practical that offers a plethora of built in services for hopefully a reasonable price. But this phone is ugly, and while critics might be quick to interject, "Oh, but android will run on other phones as well!" or "HTC designed it and it will look better in person!" it still doesn't make me like it any more. I just don't understand why you would want to launch a new platform on what might be described as a mediocre device, at least visually. It makes me hesitant as to whether google + network providers + htc/samsung/etc will be able to match the all in one package of att/apple. Pair that with the fact they are starting on square one, while apple has already had awhile to refine their product and lower prices, it leaves me skeptical to say the least. Probably the most damning attribute about android is that it's hard to explain to a person who doesn't know much about smartphones. "It's Open source and compatible with multiple devices." ok...... The other disturbing trend is how lackadaisical Google has been with keeping developers informed about changes in the various updates before the final spec. You get the feeling that this is still rough and unpolished. Now I wouldn't go so far as to write android off, but if tomorrow's press conference goes as well as all previous t-mobile/google press conferences (awful) then I can bet this thing will start out dead in the water. They need a low price or feature we haven't heard about. Not trying to start a fight, but hopefully even the androadies will know where I'm coming from.

[Jon Doe. @ Sep 23rd 2008 1:00AM]

I'll tell you why. Because there were too many cooks in the kitchen and not enough time to design a phone from scratch that Google wanted, remember that this is a collaboration between Google, HTC, and lastly T Mobile. Google knows exactly DICK about designing phones. HTC does however from the prototype its obvious as hell that HTC was the yes man in this threesome.
While I do agree this isn't the most beautiful phone on the market and sure as hell doesn't represent what HTC normally puts out. (seriously that area where the buttons are is HUGE. something else should have gone in there, or the buttons should have been touch sensitive when the screen is closed and off when its open and take up that entire bottom half as as whole.) While its not HTC norm its not BAD. On a scale of Vomits1 to 10wants to make sweet love to it. Its a solid 5 in my book. which isn't bad if the touch HD is a 7 and the Pro is an 9. At any rate I'm not a prima donna who is hung up on looks because I have no self worth and get such things through other people envying me. I'm more interested in the functionality and if this thing is as good as I think it will be, I'm sold.

PS- iPhone is an 8

[Jon Doe. @ Sep 23rd 2008 1:01AM]

Dear lawyer bird,

with that talk you should change your name to jail bait, or possibly man meat.

Really. It a damn phone. Grow the hell up 'tard.

[phanbouy @ Sep 23rd 2008 1:05PM]

funny that i get low ranked for a joke and lawyer bird doesn't for some over the top violent shit

congrats engadg readership, you official suck

[Knives_Out @ Sep 22nd 2008 11:18PM]

I'll pay $300 if it has tethering.

[Paul @ Sep 23rd 2008 12:53AM]

Bluetooth tethering for sure. I think the absence in the iphone is an aberration and not something we should expect to see in other phones or platforms.

But we are fast getting to the point where bluetooth is a bottleneck compared to the speeds obtainable via HSPDA. What we could really do with is wifi tethering - in other words, enabling your phone as an access point. Most devices that you would want to tether from are wifi enabled, and a fair chunk of new phones are too.

The great thing about open platforms like android (I hope) is that we won't need to wait for Nokia or Apple or anyone else do do this - the open source community will develop a wifi tethering solution if demanded.

It remains to be seen how effective this will be of course...

[Bibhas Acharya @ Sep 22nd 2008 11:30PM]

If Android/G1 were to be coming from apple, they'd make the whole thing look so damn good.

Compared to the iPhone OS, Android has so much to offer. Only if they could have put a superb UI in place, the Android/G1 duo would have been so much more appealing to the "consumers."

[Tina Darby @ Sep 23rd 2008 3:01AM]

It's website makes me want to gouge out my eyeballs... fire the designers!

[Loon Carter @ Sep 23rd 2008 9:21PM]

Over-hyped...

[Junior @ Sep 24th 2008 12:52PM]

Idk y everyone is attacking the designers. A flaw most ppl didn't like especially experts was that the iphone lacked a keyboard and didnt respond well while texting. Now tmobile develops a phone that has the hd touch screen plus a keyboard and everyone thinks is ugly lol. seriously the design does not bother me, my concern is weather the tmobile coverage will expand. im from ny and i travel alot to florida and california, so im curious weather i will have service over there lol.


p.s tmobiles plans are much more offardable then att plans. fav fives, unlimited tak time with any one from any network lol c'mon.