Android(s) Hit the Street in September?

Well it looks like Google Androids will be in the public venue come September. T-Mobile is rumored to be the first carrier to carry an Android enabled phoneset. –

We’re hearing rumor after rumor that Android has been delayed, and pushed back to 2009. Well TmoNews is jumping into the pool or rumors, calling BS on those other rumors, and putting in our vote of confidence on a presale of the Android phone on September 16th, 2008. This information, coming from a trusted source, prices the Android phone, also known as the G1 (Codename or real name, we’re not sure) at $399.

Full invoice that is.

Scare you? Good, well during the presale of the G1, T-mobile customers can pick up the phone for $150. This is where it gets interesting, we’re not seeing any prices for new activations during the presale, so this could mean that only current T-mobile customers can pick up the G1 during the presale. Other customers interested in the G1 may have to wait until beginning/mid October before a national public launch.

$400 for an advanced phone. Scary? Not one bit in my view. This is the price we should be paying for an advanced phone of this type SO LONG as the carrier is reducing their usage rate on the backend. What is this years $400 wonder is next years $100 commodity. That is the way it is in tech. The early adopters always pay the R&D. The price you pay is dependent on patience. I am fine with that. You should be too.

What is most surprising is that T-Mobile has in a very short period of time gone from a follower to a leader. They dumped ETF’s . They are now going to be the first to introduce Andoid. I wonder what else they have up their sleeves?

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