We don’t find the 1.5m pre-orders figure to be that surprising either – there’s a lot of excitement around the phone and the pricing looks good too.

And early reports say that the phone is stable:
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/index.cfm?reviewid=104757

But here’s what gets me excited:

“But here’s the thing: Android, and the G1, are open. Open, open, open, in ways that would make Steve Jobs cringe. You can unlock this phone after 90 days—that is, use any SIM card from any carrier in it. The operating system is free and open-source, meaning that any company can make changes without consulting or paying Google.

The App store is completely open, too; T-Mobile and Google say they won’t censor programs that they don’t approve of, as Apple does with the iPhone store. Yes, even if someone writes a Skype-like program that lets people avoid using up T-Mobile cellular voice minutes.”

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/a-first-look-at-googles-new-phone/

(1) The number of 1.5 M keeps popping up: nobody seems to have a confirmed industry source other than Android blogs.
(2) Pre-orders are not sales so nothing is flying off shelves yet.

Based on the scant demo, “the overwhelming success of pre-orders” reported may signify skillfully presented cutting the number of pre-orders — and customer frustration — by T-Mobile signaling delays in launch of an early and still unstable version of the Android OS.

cheers!

http://www.g1phone.blogspot.com