HTC CEO expects to move 600,000 G1s this year, more in 2009

With all sorts of outlandish figures being bandied about regarding sales / expectations for the T-Mobile G1, someone intimately close to the situation has finally chimed in with his take. Peter Chou, chief executive and co-founder of HTC, stated in a recent interview that it expects to ship over 600,000 G1s this year, and while he wouldn't come clean on an exact figure for 2009, he did proclaim that "in general, we think we can do more next year." We aren't betting the farm that his prediction will come true or anything, but it certainly falls within the realm of feasibility. Oh, and if you were wondering how Mr. Chou planned on convincing potential iPhone buyers to opt for the G1 instead, he reckons that the full QWERTY keypad will handle that for him -- after all, "Americans are very keyboard-oriented."

[Via mocoNews]

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 26th 2008 10:30AM]

So what you's point? The phone is going to suck ass.

Android is a game changer regardless of blogs. Sold 1.5 million or 600,000, 600,002.

The new way with the world of blogs is:

Bar of gold handed ...


and you would still bitch?
New OS, and not good enough? Is it is because it is something new, or people just have to find faults? There are faults in every OS. Nothing is perfect. Symbian, Windows Mobile, Android, Garnet (Palm), OSX. They all have things that don't work. People that like Sprint are going to like OneClick. People with at&t are going to The Vu because it has a antenna that pops out.



I am so disappointed with you (so called techies) who claim to be intelligent.

Different people have different thing/needs in life and if the world would just accept that and move on to create to new things...

Wow.. What could we would do, If we actually stopped an came up with something? No one will ever please everyone.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 26th 2008 10:42AM]

Love the phone except for that Jay Leno chin action.. Hopefully, T-Mo will continue to get some new Android phones.. Please don't stay with this design for three years before changing it T-Mo....

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 26th 2008 3:23PM]

Hopfully the next batch will have tighter fitting back covers that don't creak, and a screen that doesn't hang lopsided to the left when you open the keyboard :(

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 26th 2008 8:29PM]

The phone looks like something fashioned in a middle school woodshop class. Surely HTC can do a better job on the design side!