T-Mobile - Sorta Kinda Trying to Unveil the G1
The blank in the center? That's where the G1 promo pic SHOULD be.
That was the scene this morning when I went in to contemplate upgrading my phone, and check on my bill. I tried clicking through the broken promo image, and was let into a clearly unfinished area, offering the preorder of the G1, the first phone to feature Google’s Android mobile OS, which I was too excited to take screenshots of, and can’t seem to dig up a cached version of, to boot. :( If anybody has any thoughts on how I could wrestle these pages out of my history without the t-mobile servers interfering, comment!
It was really interesting. Where the details of a phone usually appear, all it had was Detail 1, Detail 2, etc. There were 3 versions on offer, black, brown, and white, but the only picture available was for the black model. (Brown, seriously? Who offers brown at launch? Talk about balls.)
Later in the day, after several server busy errors and general shenannigans, the customer area looked like this:
Billing was down for the count, upgrade phone disabled, an older promotional graphic was in place. Clearly they had some issues with this too-soon promo release.
Later on, billing and phone upgrade came back, but no sign of the new “google phone” in the upgrade list as of yet. With the official unveiling of the new Android powered phone a few days off, all the hubub today was clearly preparation for the upcoming preorder frenzy. Based on the errors seen this morning, and the general lag of the site, I would say this is going to be a serious preorder crunch!
I will be checking all morning on the 23rd, to see if I can get in on this. Full disclosure: I’m not really a gotta-have-it-first person when it comes to any bit of new tech, but if I can get a new phone with a qwerty keyboard and web access, AND get a rare chance to one-up my I-got-an-iPhone-and-can’t-do-what-I-want-with-it friends, well, I can’t pass it up!
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