Comments on: Have you pre-ordered yet?

By: CC Dude

CC Dude — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:18:29 +0000

I’m a tmobile customer care rep and to answer your questions:

1. For those of you who ordered early, the G1 is scheduled to ship out so it will ARRIVE at your home by the 22nd, although T-Mobile is being careful to avoid promising that. Their verbiage is something to the effect of “Your T-Mobile G1 device should arrive at your home by the launch date of October 22, but actual delivery date may vary.” So don’t call customer care complaining if its a day or two late.

2. The phone will be available to all Postpaid and Flexpay customers (sorry Prepaid, can’t put the data package on your accounts) via customer care and mytmobile.com on 10/22, however it will only be available in select retail stores. Tmobile is making it available in any store that currently has active 3G coverage. For example, if you live in Kansas City, you will be able to score a phone at a T-Mobile store in the city, but if you live in that market in outlying areas (e.g., SW/NW Missouri or Kansas), then the phone will not be available for purchase in stores in your town. Not to worry though, EVERY tmobile store will have at least one working demo of the phone so you can go play with it then order it online or thru 611. You’ll just have to wait a long time for it to ship. With over 1.5 mil phones pre-ordered so far, expect it to be backordered.

By: rolltide

rolltide — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:53:46 +0000

I was told today CR that there were not doing the white because the paint was chiping…

By: Yung Meeage

Yung Meeage — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:42:16 +0000

well…. I just called Tmobile and inorder 2 get a white G1 go in on the day to the retail store, first come first severed. Thats what he said 2 me.

By: CJ

CJ — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:00:34 +0000

I pre-ordered my G1 on the 23rd. Ever since then my upgrade page has showed I could order again, at the 299 price with 2 year contract extension. I called on the 25th and they showed my order and gave me a confirmation number. Today, it shows that I have a full upgrade available again and that I can pre-order at the 179.99 price. I called customer care and was told because the phones are back ordered, the system automatically reset me to being able to fully upgrade again so that if I changed my mind I’d be able to get the correct price on any phone I ordered. She still shows my order on the 23rd and says I will receive it on or about Oct 22nd. Makes me worry that the order was canceled, but she says it will only cancel if I order another phone now…including if I try to order the G1 again….it would put me in the second run and automatically cancel my first order. Just wanted everyone to be careful if this is true..you might inadvertanly cancel your 1st order….

By: monica

monica — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:48:43 +0000

@dat chyk
Ya I see what you’re saying. I just figured it was a “rebate” since it showed that on G1 site, and a rep my hubby talked to said the same. Perhaps they figured 399 was too high and just decided to keep it at the $299 price. Either way, its still worth it to me

By: Joey

Joey — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:05:44 +0000

Google how to get your contacts from outlook to Gmail. I had all my contacts on my treo, and got them into my gmail within 20ish minutes

By: dat chyk

dat chyk — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:27:21 +0000

@monica – When I pre-ordered it said retail was $399.99 (Lookin at my printed confirmation now…even though I got it at $179.99). But after I pre-ordered and checked the next day…it gave me a price of $299 as an upgrade, so I assumed that $299 was the price n e 1 would pay without a discount (Since I had just used mine (upgrade) and that’s the price I got). I could be wrong…nah mean? Iono, but that’s price I get…as of today.

Anybody else who pre-ordered and went back in…see a diff price?

By: monica

monica — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:06:04 +0000

@dat chyk
I was under the impression the regular price was $399, but at preorder you received a $100 instant rebate if you were not eligible for an upgraded price.

By: dat chyk

dat chyk — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:00:50 +0000

@mvb757 – It sounds like you did not receive a partial upgrade if you paid $299. That’s the full price at the moment (I believe…someone correct me if I’m wrong).

By: dflat7

dflat7 — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:56:35 +0000

Anyone here is a programmer and can enlighten us (or me) on what you need to write an app? Do you need to know java or any kind of code or any john doe can do it….?