T-Mobile Planning A Touch-Only G1 Handset?

Word has begun to bubble under that T-Mobile may be planning to release a touch-only version of its wildly popular G1 "Google Android" smart phone. We received a tip that a new HTC form factor will omit the qwerty keyboard in favor of a slimmed down version of the handset according to a credible source.

A touch-only version of the G1 would be aimed at matching up more closely with iPhone 3G. A grand fantasy nurtured by every mobile carrier scrambling to compete against the cult of iPhone. A specific launch date or retail pricing were not revealed, though it's possible the device is intended to be sold as a gap filler alongside T-Mobile's current G1 model sometime after holiday. It's rumored that a few prototypes of the new G1 form factor are already floating around T-Mobile's campus for hands-on use.

TG Daily's Wolfgang Gruener, is convinced that T-Mobile's G1 is selling better than expected. "HTC now believes that it will be able to ship one million G1s in the fourth quarter, which is a 40% increase over the initial 600,000 estimate." Source: TG Daily

High Tech Computer (HTC) recently unveiled a new handset, the Touch HD, a 3G capable touch smart phone with a 3.8-inch screen running Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system. No word yet if T-Mobile intends to make a formal announcement on a new G1 touch-only version sooner than later.

Comments

[Steve]

I Have been a t-mobile customer for only 3 , years but, I have been around the block with others carriers old at&t to sprint.

I have speaking to t-mobile regulally telling them if they don't get a t-mobile phone worth purchasing they will lose customers regardsless how good the customer service, and packages are. The sales person said the new version of the google phone will be released end of Q1 (March-April)

I don't know the truth behind because I did threaten leaving there services and how everything is great at tmobie for my family except that the phone selection grading is a "F".

It is frustrating to me that it seems everyone else has different selection of phones and t-mobile always blame it on testing before release.

I say t-mobile get with the program!!!

[claudio]

and that is why you can actually click the "X" on the upper right corner of the browser and close it ! you don't like it , don't read it!!!!

Good news by the way

[Deke]

I tellz ya - dat Billy is such a stickler for pooper gramma! Da english language can use some mangling! They say speak to your audience - well that audience speaks like dis. Sorry fella. Your time is past...

By the by:
A keyboardless G1? It might work.

[billy]

The writing in this article is amazingly horzible. Buy a copy of Strunk and White or the Chicago Manual and hire a copy editor. It's one thing to reposteded rumors that have been kicking around for months and call them your owns, but it's quite another to mangles the English language in doing so. I can haz grammarz?