LuisOct 14th, 2008 - 14:08:21

Various sources? All of them origin from the same one 'Motley Fool'. And that is pure speculation and bad maths.

So much for the tech herald! More like the gossip and lies weekly!

Verify the authenticity of your sources before spreading lies.

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StevenOct 14th, 2008 - 15:59:29

-- Luis --

If you look at all the other tech articles, they are all rather valid points and everything mentioned in the article is true. You should check your sources before making such ridiculous claims.

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XXXmonkeyOct 14th, 2008 - 16:52:35

@ Luis

Wow, someone's filled with venom. The story is fine.

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MartinOct 14th, 2008 - 17:26:10

Umm, actually they all point back to the Motley Fool article. And the author of that article came to that number because he took the 400-500K figure that HTC was providing for T-Mobile and multiplied it by three.

He did this because T-Mobile said it sold out of pre-order units, tripled it, and sold out again. But what he didn't take into account is that there's no evidence that T-Mobile would make it's entire fourth-quarter stock available for pre-order, particularly because only T-Mobile subscribers could order it.

The number is wrong, and it's been given credence only because it has been echoed through the tech blogs who are too lazy to do some real reporting.

From the Motley Fool article:
'The first shipment of the T-Mobile G1 sold out through preorders from existing T-Mobile subscribers, so the company tripled its order to Taiwanese handset maker HTC. The bigger batch sold out, too.

That means that about 1.5 million G1s are destined to fill preorder sales, in addition to another couple of million sets being earmarked for retail sales.'

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LuisOct 14th, 2008 - 17:30:38

Thanks Martin. My point, exactly.

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KekoaOct 15th, 2008 - 08:35:25

I'm hungry...I'm getting this phone...cuz I'm that spoiled ;)....

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