T-Mobile may have at least a short-term shortage of its G1 Android-powered phone as customers flood the company with preorders. T-Mobile said it has already sold its presale stock of the first Google Android phone.

“Given the great anticipation and the heavy presale demand for the T-Mobile G1 with Google, we nearly tripled the number of phones initially available for delivery on our Oct. 22 launch period, and have sold through them all,” T-Mobile said.

T-Mobile declined to

reveal the number of phones initially available, so analysts can’t discern what tripling the number means. However, Strategy Analytics has predicted T-Mobile could sell as many as 400,000 of the G1s that year. What is known is that the devices are now back-ordered until Nov. 10.

Marketing Is the Key

The G1 phone touts touchscreen functionality, a QWERTY keyboard, and a Google-centric mobile Web experience. It was unveiled with iPhone-like hype […]

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