Desperately Seeking G1 or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hit F5
The truth hurts
So after watching the press conference this morning and getting super mega ultra excited, I spent a good couple of hours mashing F5 in anticipation of pre-order.
The press conference was interesting but not mind-blowing. It was, however, nice to get a better feel for the features and see some nice, shiny demo videos. Update: Engadget Mobile has posts galore about today’s unveiling. I won’t get into the few parts I gleaned from the demo.
This eventually lead me to log in, which had me so pumped I thought I would explode. Then… over an hour of server errors.
Eventually T-Mobile disabled phone upgrades altogether - right around 1pm, if I remember correctly - probably to figure out how the hell to handle that much traffic. If I were them, I’d see if they could borrow a server farm from Larry and Sergey until the pre-order is all over.
T-Mobile, taking a page from Pandemic's President Madagasgar, SHUT. DOWN. EVERYTHING. Ok, just the upgrade section, but still.
I will be poking at their servers for the rest of the day. While I realize this adds to their server load, I will not be the only person doing this, and with this kind of outage, coupled with the knowledge that there are supposedly 400,000 up for pre-order, it’s either be aggressive or get left scrambling on October 22nd.
Success must be mine! Wish me luck. :D
I DID IT!
FUCK YEAH
After a day of confusion and mild frustration, as of approximately 3:26pm EST, I am now one of the approximately 400,000 to secure a T-Mobile HTC G1 with Android and all that good stuff!
Because I could not stop for success, success kindly stopped for me. I had taken a break from my rabid F5-ing and decided to socialize with my co-workers, then I decided it was a good time to hit refresh on my T-mobile account page. LO! The upgrade phone link was back! I hit the promo image on the site and it actually worked! Not only did it work, but the site loaded as quickly as you please. I completed my order in nothing flat.
The phone cost, with the “upgrade fee” comes in at $197.99. Just under the originally predicted $199.
The G1 should be in my hot little hands on or about October 22nd. There will be an unboxing and setup post when I get it. Assuming I don’t get so excited that I just tear the whole package apart like a tazmanian devil.
For anyone curious, here’s the official T-Mobile overview page for the phone.
pardon my sloppy line up
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Ian said,
September 23, 2008 @ 1:52 pm
A few folks who hadn’t seen this-is-why-we-can’t-have-nice-things cat totally snorfled with glee when they read this post over my shoulder. Good luck with T-mobile as they experience the Android Effect.
norbie said,
September 23, 2008 @ 1:54 pm
Was Sergei wearing his red crocs? I didn’t see :(
Giania said,
September 23, 2008 @ 1:55 pm
I couldn’t tell, actually.
There was a crowd of people all around the presenters right at the end there.
However, everybody and their mother has stuff related to the press conference, so there’s hope of finding out yet.
Nark said,
September 23, 2008 @ 10:11 pm
Nicely done, their website has always been kind of terrible. Glad you stuck it out. I kind of hate how tenacious a lot of these release things end up but I guess it all just ads more excitement, what with the uncertainty and all.
Looking forward to your thoughts on this thing.