Yea same with me. They helped us out a lot with all our phone troubles and we’ve had t-mobile since it was powertel in 1997 :D

William, I’d imagine T-Mobile would refund the difference. It certainly wouldn’t hurt to see what they say. They’ve always been very accommodating for me… Of course, they like me since I’ve been then with them since 2000.

if they would have called it the G2, then T-Mobile and Gatorade could have had some kind of strange advertising deal. they maybe could have even gone as far as to make the top of it orange like the cap of a Gatorade container – haha just a joke – but that may be the reason T-Mobile did not call it the G2, although strange and farfetched.

another note, i bought my G1 from T-Mobile for $179 2 weeks ago… >:-(

I have the HTC Sapphire G2 from Rogers in Canada. I completely love the phone. The google integration is superb. But I have h a couple of small issues.

1) I find the screen a bit narrow – so typing is a bit slow as I miss a lot of characters

2) So in order to deal with issue 1 I flip the phone in sideways – often it takes quite a while to flip over.

3) No xvid/divx support

My wife finds the same thing – so while the data entry is pretty good it is not as good as an oldschool blackberry.

Cheers

I very much enjoy my G1, but I also enjoy my Ion better in many cases. I still like the physical keyboard of the G1 but the overall experience of the Ion is much better.

I got my G1 for $140 in December, from T-Mobile.

because Americans love to make money off other Americans. it’s called capitalism.

I upgraded to a G1 on T-mobile last week – but starting to wish I’d gone for an iPhone. Put it this way – I had to read the manual.

I think the Android OS has real potential, but the current build on the G1 still seems clumsy by comparison.

why are you guys getting ripped off in the US?
I’ve had my G1 for 8 months and it was free from T-Mobile when I got it they still are, in fact, most phones are free over here from all networks.
I pay £30 a month which includes unlimited data, which is around $43

Do we know what hardware this version will have exactly ?
because there are different Sapphire versions with some differences (Vodafone Magic, Ion, HTC version, ….)

-> camera resolution (3.2, 5 mpx ) ?
-> RAM (192, 288 ?)

(I own a french SFR -Vodafone- version, 3.2mpx, 192 Mo RAM)

Ive been using the Ion (my touch 3g) since Google i/o and im completely satisfied. they improved every aspect of the phone and im truly impressed at the quality of this phone. If any one is thinking of getting a “my touch 2g” i highly recommend it!