500,000 G1 phones expected to sell in quarter

T-Mobile USA is expected to sell in the fourth quarter between 400,000 and 500,000 of the recently announced G1 phones, which use Google's Android operating system, according to Taiwanese news site CENS.

T-Mobile will also order up to 2 million of the devices from G1 handset maker HTC, the site said, quoting industry insiders. This could mean a big boost in revenue for HTC in the fourth quarter and into next year.

T-Mobile will launch the G1 on October 22 in the United States for $179. The new phone, which has a touch screen and GPS navigation, along with a rich software interface, has been compared to Apple's iPhone.

Even at the predicted sale rate of 500,000 units in the fourth quarter, the Android phone won't be selling as quickly as the first-generation iPhone. Apple shipped about a million iPhones during the quarter in which it first released the smartphone, in the summer of 2007. Still, 500,000 phones is nothing to sneeze at. And if the pace continues, Android developers will certainly have a big enough market to target with their new applications.

[ancre007]

Selling the first million phones should be a cakewalk compared with the bigger challenge of selling the second million, once the early adopters in silicon valley and other tech centers have bought their share of the devices.

[David Dudley]

What will be interesting is what phones people migrate away from and who's marketshare will suffer accordingly. EG: will people leave other carriers to migrate to this phone? Moreover, will it impact RIM, Apple, Microsoft by having yet another player in the mobile industry as it potentially erodes their marketshare on the consumer side?

[AppleSuxLeo]

This article and Nokia`s launch (today in Europe) of the "comes with music" / touch-screen phone must have helped AAPL drop ANOTHER 8 percent today...OUCH !
While almost all techs dropped a bit , AAPL got HAMMERED !!!

[AppleSuxLeo]

Here is what competition is doing to AAPL stock price...OUCH ! MSFT was only down FOUR CENTS !
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7649060.stm

[skillingssucks]

Take a look at what your life has become.

[Pope]

Thats because Microsoft is a dead stock. Hasnt moved off about $26 dollars a share in 10 years. Apple went from 13 to 190 and had two stock splits.

[AppleSuxLeo]

Microsofts market cap is over three times Apples , and Microsoft didn`t lose half it`s market cap over the last few months like AAPL , Mr Nimrod. Apple loses big time when the economy sours ;)
On a day the NASDAQ got hammered...esp. AAPLE , MSFT only lost a few cents ;)
You no nothing about financial matters , just keep drinking the Jobs Kool-Aid.

[Canok]

Apple got hammered by the shorts since they can't short the financials anymore. Do you know how much money can be made with a $9 decline?