A million T-Mobile G1s will sell this year

The source for all that is holy in the land of the Eee and the HTC handset, Digitimes, has reported that T-Mobile's G1 is on track to hit the million sales mark by the end of the year.

That's up from the 600,000 HTC's CEO, Peter Chou, was initially predicting for the first Google Android handset to hit Earth.

Mightily impressive you might think, but then it took the iPhone 3G all of three days to sell a million models at its launch - sales figures T-Mobile and HTC can only dream of.

Heck, even the Palm Centro made it to a million units eventually.

One other snippet from Digitimes is that HTC's planning on acquiring “a handset design company in the US”. That could be the sign of a new design direction to break away from the HTC Touch mold and the less than inspiring G1 styling. Or it could be a crafty move to bring in some cunning innovation from a design-team minnow.

Interestingly, on another side note, the G1 appears to be selling at roughly the same rate as HTC's own-branded Touch Diamond. The reskinned Windows Mobile device is predicted to sell three million by the end of the year following its launch at the end of May - a forecast that's also been upped from its original two million estimate.

So it seems HTC's doing rather better than it predicted. What credit crunch, eigh?

[ Digitimes]