It’s coming – or at least thats what it says on the new G1 phone advert that was released this weekend. It was only by chance that one of the guys at Android News managed to spot the new T-Mobile G1 with Google phone ad on page 37 of the ‘News of the World’.

The ad which measures 150mm wide x 250mm places the main headline, subhead and image of the G1 phone in a rectangular box with rounded corners and placed toward the bottom right of the advert itself. The lower half of the box carries T-Mobile’s trademark magenta colour. The headline states ‘It’s coming’ with the subtitle ‘T-Mobile G1 with Google’. ‘Available from 30/10/08′. Most of the ad is taken up by an image, this particular image is of two middle aged men standing on a hill just above a crowd of people. Everyone is looking out across a busy harbour. There is a large katamaran and cruise ship in view and directly above is a large super imposed Google Maps pin. Our guess is that we could be seeing a lot more of these ads showing different locations and scenarios. Watch this space.

Well boys and girls, the moment we have all been waiting for, T-Mobile have officially announced the eagerly awaited release of the T-Mobile G1 Phone, the phone built for the internet and the first to run Google’s Android open source mobile software platform.

The T-Mobile G1 Phone will be available to the UK population from 30th October 2008, that’s just 2 weeks away!!!

In T-Mobile’s official press release it has stated that since its G1 Phone unveiling in New York in September, over 25,000 UK consumers pre-registered their interest in the device. They have finally told us that the wait will be over on 30 October as the T-Mobile G1 hits the shelves at T-Mobile stores just five weeks after it’s official unveiling.

As previously documented the G1 Phone is available for free on T-Mobile Combi and Flext price plans from £40 a month, including unlimited fast mobile internet browsing powered by T-Mobile’s award-winning  network. Combi 35 offers 800 minutes and unlimited texts while Flext 40 gives up to 1,250 minutes or up to 2,500 texts or any mix of the two.

Jim Hyde, Managing Director T-Mobile UK said:  “With so much excitement generated by the announcement last month, we’re thrilled to bring the T-Mobile G1 to the UK in time for Christmas.”

Well, guess what Jim, so are we!

T-Mobile have said that the T-Mobile G1 Phone will feature a range of exciting applications some of which will already be pre-loaded on your G1 Phone. To me this only means over excitement and confusion, I mean, what do you do when you take your new G1 Phone out of its box? Play with the pre installed apps and get experiment with the android operating system or get straight on the internet and head over to Google’s Android Market, the place wheret customers can find and download innovative applications from games and navigation tools to on-the-go shopping comparisons.

Following T-Mobiles announcement that the G1 Phone will now be released on 30th October 2008 (and not early November as previously expected), we have’nt got long to find out.

Arrgghhh, decisions, decisions!

Since Google announced the birth of Android back in November 2007 Android News have been very suspicious of its true heritage due to his instant rise to fame. We therefore decided to trace back android’s ancestry only to reveal a host of familiar characters. We are slowly piecing back android’s bloodline but please feel free to comment on anyone who you may think is related!

Want to join in more android antics come and join our facebook group “We want the new Google phone” which was created by Ray Specs, thanks Ray!

T-Mobile’s new G1 Phone, the very first phone to operate on the much coveted Android Platform from Google is the talk of town, in fact lets rephrase that, it’s the talk of the globe! We all want one, but when can we get our hands on the G1 phone in the UK?

Everywhere we look there are news article galore about the G1 this and the G1 that, but why is it that everthing we read is always aimed at the US market? Ok so when it comes to release dates, we’re used to playing second fiddle to our friends across the atlantic, but that’s not the problem. It’s not that we need to know we can get a G1 before the US, we simply want to know when we can get one at all.

Well you may have seen already that pre orders for the G1 in the US have been and gone before many new about it, and those lucky enough to have got their order in can expect delivery on October 22. So far the only promises we have had for a UK release date for the G1 Phone is early November 2008, but we’ve heard from T-Mobile that we can expect a pre order window for the G1 phone to open in mid October.

Considering how quickly the US pre order window closed after opening, we’d suggest all of us who want to get our hands on the G1 phone on the day it gets released in the UK, and that is all of us, get our pre orders in the minute we see that window open.

Rest assured, the moment we hear T-Mobile are accepting pre orders for the G1, we will be covering it all over this website, and we’re quietly confident that will be the day that we get an official UK release date for the G1 phone.

Still sitting on the fence? Still not sure whether you want to upgrade to the new G1 Phone? Still want more answers? T-mobile has heard your beckoned call… well, sort of.

T-mobile have created an online simulator which allows you to get a better feel for the G1 phone, it has animated 360 views, animated guides on how the keyboard slides, how the battery is removed, how the SIM card is inserted and how to insert an SD memory card. It also has an emulator, a close up view of the screen so that you can have a play with Google’s android operating platform (Beware some screens are not fully functional). 

I know, I know, where do you go to see the new G1 phone? Well, click here, and feast your eyes on this little beauty!

G1 Phone Testdrive

Join our facebook group for the G1 phone or Google phone, a facebook community dedicated to the UK release of the G1 Phone.

To join this group, visit facebook and search for our group named “we want the new Google phone”.

The big question we all want answered is how much is the G1 Phone, or as some refer to it the Google Phone going to cost us?

Well rumour has it that although the G1 Phone has been pre sold in the US at a decent premium, it may be available for FREE in the UK (probably in exchange for a lengthy contract we expect).

None the less, if there is any truth in this rumour, the google phone, sorry G1 phone, is set to banish the iPhone to dark cold lonely cupboards up and down the UK, possibly for good.

Gives us your views on the strengths, weaknesses and comparisons between the G1 Phone and the poor old iPhone.