Latest Mobile Phone News by MobilesTopic.com http://www.mobilestopic.com/news/ Copyright 2008 MobilesTopic. All rights reserved. Pre-orders for Google's first lot of G1 phones sold out, so Google tripled the the order from HTC (Taiwan), according to Pulse 2.0 on Friday. Those are sold out as well. That has brought the total to 1.5 million phones pre-ordered http://www.mobilestopic.com/news/ipodobserver-google-android-g1-phone-orders-climb.html Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:45:00 CDT Nokia already has a second touchscreen device in the works following the 5800 XpressMusic, the company's Indian marketing chief Devinder Kishore has reportedly told CellPassion at a New Delhi event. The phone would sit above the mid-range 5800 and instead join the Nseries, which so far has relied almost exclusively on traditional direction and number pads for controls but often has stronger ... http://www.mobilestopic.com/news/nokia-said-prepping-touchscreen-nseries-macnn.html Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:45:00 CDT As T-Mobile gears up to release the first Android-based smartphone, reports say it already has sold about 1.5 million T-Mobile G1s in preorders. According to the financial site fool.com, T-Mobile tripled its manufacturing directive to handset maker HTC for preorders after the first run sold out, and all of the 1.5 million units available for preorder have sold out. http://www.mobilestopic.com/news/report-puts-t-mobiles-android-g1-presales-at-15-mi.html Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:59:00 CDT T-Mobile announced the G1 last month as the first smartphone to be powered by Google's new Android operating system. http://www.mobilestopic.com/news/report-15-million-t-mobile-g1-pre-orders-mobile-bu.html Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:22:00 CDT T-Mobile will immediately launch into direct competition with iPhone-level sales numbers when the Android-based G1 goes on sale in just over a week, according to claims by the Motley Fool. The carrier has reportedly not only sold out its initial pre-order allotment but a three times larger second wave as well; the tally sets aside 1.5 million G1s just for existing customers willing to buy the ... http://www.mobilestopic.com/news/t-mobile-sells-15-million-g1-pre-orders-macnn.html Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:30:00 CDT Google's answer to Apple's iPhone, the HTC G1 Android phone, is coming to South Africa next year. http://www.mobilestopic.com/news/google-phone-coming-to-sa-news-24-south-africa.html Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:05:00 CDT Apple iPhone, move over. At least, that's the hope of Google and Research in Motion as they ready the first serious competitors to the iPhone, in the "mobile 2.0" market that Apple invented. Later this month, the first Google Android OS-based phone, HTC's G1, will come on the market through the carrier T-Mobile. And in November, RIM's first BlackBerry that supports real Web pages is ... http://www.mobilestopic.com/news/get-ready-for-next-gen-mobile-infoworld.html Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:04:00 CDT Apple iPhone, move over. At least, that's the hope of Google and Research in Motion as they ready the first serious competitors to the iPhone, in the "mobile 2.0" market that Apple invented. http://www.mobilestopic.com/news/get-ready-for-next-gen-mobile-infoworld-via-yahoo.html Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:00:00 CDT As we get closer and closer to the launch of the T-Mobile G1 Google Android device the rumors are heating up. The latest report comes from The Motley Fool (it hasn't been confirmed by anyone else yet) states that T-Mobile has sold out of the first (we all knew that) and second batch of preorders. This equates to 1.5 million G1 devices being called for in preorder sales. That would be quite a ... http://www.mobilestopic.com/news/15-million-android-phones-pre-sold-whats-up-with-t.html Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:11:00 CDT *Well, folks, the other shoe has finally dropped. Google has entered the mobile phone space. The iPhone has its first serious competitor. Allow me to introduce you to the HTC G1. http://www.mobilestopic.com/news/urban-thought-collective-check-the-tech-nique-eurw.html Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:05:00 CDT T-Mobile’s upcoming G1 may not be the best-looking iPhone rival, it may not have the most complete feature set and T-Mobile may have undersold the device at the recent launch event. But it seems that the device is already selling like hotcakes – 1.5 million phones have been snapped up by t-Mobile customers so far. http://www.mobilestopic.com/news/15-million-g1-android-phones-pre-ordered-tg-daily.html Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:34:00 CDT Demand for the T-Mobile G1 is high enough that 1.5 million of them have already been pre-ordered, sight unseen. The only other smartphone has seen so many units sold so quickly is Apple's iPhone. http://www.mobilestopic.com/news/t-mobile-has-already-sold-15-million-android-power.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:56:00 CDT Apple may want to be keep a close eye on the sales of T-Mobile's G1 device. The G1 will be the first mobile phone to hit the market running Google's Android mobile OS. This may also be the mobile phone that puts a serious dent in Apple's iPhone sales. The G1 won't officially be available until October 22. Apparently no one wants to experience the same shortage and chaos as those that ... http://www.mobilestopic.com/news/15-million-g1-mobile-phones-pre-sold-readwriteweb.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:25:00 CDT Filed under: Cellphones T-Mobile sold right out of its original allotment of G1 pre-orders quick, fast and in a hurry, and even the second round has been claimed in a flash. What's it all mean? It means that someone at T-Mobile and Google are sitting in a fancy restaurant in France sipping on the good stuff, and it also means that 1.5 million G1s have already been reserved for ... http://www.mobilestopic.com/news/15-million-t-mobile-g1s-already-pre-ordered-engadg.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:42:00 CDT Thanks to about a million tips, I've been forced to sit through the new Britney Spears music video for "Womanizer" because the flashy Nokia 5800 XpressMusic 'Tube' makes an appearance. The phone is... http://www.mobilestopic.com/news/nokia-5800-xpressmusic-abused-by-britney-spears-in.html Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:21:00 CDT The huge screen dwarfs that of the iPhone or HTC's Android-based G1 . The Edelweiss display even boasts higher resolution than the latest version of the Windows Mobile-based HTC Touch HD , which offers 800 x 480 pixels. http://www.mobilestopic.com/news/emblaze-mobiles-edelweiss-linux-devices.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:06:00 CDT Well, I say that with my tongue firmly implanted in my cheek, because it's not completely true. http://www.mobilestopic.com/news/att-sidekick-coming-this-month-possibly-htc-g1-mob.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:05:00 CDT We're used to seeing all kinds of knockoff products in China and how they may have reduced functionality compared to their legitimate counterparts, but it's a shame when the real deal has to get crippled too. http://www.mobilestopic.com/news/nokia-tube-5800-xpressmusic-visits-china-without-r.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:20:00 CDT Nokia's N-Gage download service has the potential to dwarf the App Store in terms of mobile game sales, say parties within the gaming industry. Reuters reports that while N-Gage has achieved relatively little so far in its six months of operation, this is mainly because people have mostly had to install the necessary software themselves, something which is beginning to change with phones like ... http://www.mobilestopic.com/news/n-gage-poised-to-rival-app-store-for-gaming-macnn.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:15:00 CDT DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Aiming for a Ubiquitous Presence: Google's Strategy for the G1 and Its Impact on the Mobile Industry" report to their offering. http://www.mobilestopic.com/news/research-and-markets-aiming-for-a-ubiquitous-prese.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:00:00 CDT