People in China just can’t wait to get their hands on the HTC G-1 with Google handset. It’s being reported that units have been shipping like crazy overseas since yesterday our time. The units are being sold by dealers for RMB 3,999 which translates roughly to $583USD, and some are offering to unlock the phone for use at an additional $73USD. This opens up some bad news for T-mobile and Google.
The G-1 is exclusively available in the US with release set for early November for the UK. With this getting out into the illegal trade routes the number of actual units on the network could be skewed a bit. If you remember, T-mobile speculated that they had an astounding pre-order of 1.5 million units, which they quickly retracted. Maybe they were counting all the ones being shipped illegally overseas for use on other carriers. With the great news of the opening of the application Marketplace Google an T-Mobile doesn’t need this bad news to come their way.
I ordered mine legit from T-Mobile, so there will be no shenanigans on this end. People will do pretty much anything to get the latest technology, even if it means breaking the law. Comment your thoughts, even if you are contemplating buying it in China, I sure hope not! I definitely don’t condone that, even when it is so easy to get in the states.
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