T-Mobile No Longer Offering the G1
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While Google stopped offering the Nexus One well before the Android engineers took full advantage of its hardware, we can’t say that the device has reached “true” end-of-life: Google’s just not going to be the ones to get it into your hands. Unfortunately, the original “Google Phone” (Remember that one?) – what we hold close to our hearts as the T-Mobile G1 (or Android Dev Phone 1 and HTC Dream for a lot of you) – is officially being given its walking papers.
After a year and nine months, the first Android phone to start the craze that we salivate over today has been officially pulled from the market. It was a very ambitious device: 192MB of RAM, 256MB of internal storage, 512MHz Qualcomm ARM11
If we go from the G1 to devices like the EVO, N1, Droid etc in less than two years; please, bring on the next two years quickly!
My girlfriend still uses her G1. I’ve since upgraded to a Nexus One.
Long live Android.
It had to happen eventually but the G1 pioneered by changing the phone game and will not be forgotten for it.