Googlephone
The long-awaited T-Mobile G1 - the first phone to run on the open source Android platform promoted by Google - has arrived in the UK and is being sold exclusively through T-Mobile stores and its website.
The first one was sold when T-Mobile's flagship Oxford Street store opened at 7am. Software programmer Andy Burgess had been queueing since 5am and was the first person to get one. "Being the first person in the UK to own this mobile phone is amazing," gushed Burgess. "I'm going to be popular at work! I've been waiting for this phone for months and I knew I had to be the first to own it."
T-Mobile UK CEO Jim Hyde was equally swept up in the moment: "With the richest web experience ever seen on a mobile and thanks to the Android Market, the unprecedented ability to make your mobile work just the way you want, the T-Mobile G1 is set to revolutionise the way we use our phones," he said.
The T-Mobile G1 is available for free on T-Mobile Combi and Flext price plans from £40 a month, which include "unlimited" web browsing. Among the unique attractions of the G1 is access to the Android Market pool of free additional applications, of which there are already 50.
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