T-Mobile has recently release some user stats for the Android based G1 and they are showing that “roughly half” of the customers that have purchase a G1 have moved up from a “basic handset.” Wow, to me that would suggest that the G1 may be making its way into more than just the average geeks hands.
Additionally, a few other interesting bits of information include that four-out-of-five G1 users download new apps at least once a week and that “on average” G1 users have downloaded more than 40 applications from the Android Market.
Otherwise, it seems that 80-percent of those users browse the web on a daily basis, which goes along with the previous figures that Android is making up for 5-percent of the US based mobile web traffic. It was also noted that most users connect via Wi-Fi on a daily basis.
Finally, and this comes with little surprise, but the stats also show that the “majority” of G1 users browse Facebook and/or YouTube at least once a day.
Overall, these stats are not all that shocking to me, well, aside from the average of 40 applications.


April 2nd, 2009 at 4:45 pm
What is “basic handset”? Sorry, I am a G1 user but the first paragraph does not make sense to me.
April 2nd, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Hey Jim,
Sorry about the confusion, they had it stated as basic handset. I took that to mean it was something other than a smartphone, just a regular phone.
October 26th, 2009 at 3:10 am
What is the largest memory card i can put in my G1?
October 26th, 2009 at 3:45 am
16 gigs