T-Mobile's G1 Arrives

According to C|Net, the first retail purchase was made Tuesday night by Christopher Laddis in San Francisco (congrats).

Or for those who prefer to avoid a line, they can purchase the G1 online. Ah, the lack of activation is a wonder (hint, hint, Apple).

T-Mobile has also started a dedicated forum for the G1, BTW, here, and it already has 3,400+ posts.

All in all, most reviewers have not been entranced by the G1 hardware (Lack of a standard headset jack? Talk about a strange decision), but rather by the Android software. Open-source as it is, it offers a great opportunity for a flood of applications to be written for it. On the other hand, right now, there are less than 50 apps in the Market.

Still, the answer to Now What? is we wait to see how the G1's growing pains pan out. Will it have connectivity issues, a la the iPhone 3G? How quickly will apps appear? And T-Mobile's somewhat limited 3G network --- a definite negative. Time will tell.