News a couple of days ago has been about one and a half million G1 Android phones being pre-ordered. No wonder that all international technological sites and papers have taken over the story, but only Information Week has been smart enough to verify this incredible number. If we get to think about it, the doubt has been rightful, as even the highly anticipated iPhone has been sold in 1 million copies on the first weekend, in spite of the fact that it has been launched in 20 countries at the same time.
It has turned out that the source of the news is one of the mathematicians of Motley Fool, who has revealed how did they get to this huge quantity. He has started from the rumor that according to some internal information T-Mobile has ordered nearly two million G1s from HTC and they are planning to sell half a million of these in the first quarter. After this there has been some bits of news about T-Mobile having sold the full set of G1s in advance, so they triple it, and such the guy from Motley Fool didn't think too much, he also multiplied the half a million with three. It has, however, never turned out how much G1s did T-Mobile really order, so we must have some reservations regarding this incredibly high number of 1.5 million.
Translated by Szaszati
