HTC is reporting that more than 600,000 T-Mobile G1’s will be shipped by years end. This is much less than the 1.5 million units speculated upon in the blogosphere. While the new numbers might be dissapointing to some, HTC CEO Peter Chou commented:
It will be more than what we originally planned. I’m saying we will ship more than 600,000.
I guess HTC had more reasonable numbers than the rest of us in the blogosphere.
Also worth noting is why the G1 is called the ‘T-Mobile G1′… and not the HTC G1. I’ve wondered about this a bit myself, but the reasons are clear to Chou. He says that brand recognition for T-Mobile is very high, and they wanted to capitalize on that. It all comes down to selling more units, and if the name T-Mobile helps do just that, then heck… why not!
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