T-Mobile USA delays Android 1.5 rollout by a few days
by Chris Ziegler 
posted May 18th 2009 at 3:11PM
We knew it was too good to be true, eternal curmudgeonly pessimists that we are -- and sure enough, T-Mobile USA has put the kibosh on the start of its Android 1.5 rollout to G1 users. It seems that the build is still being "optimized" to "ensure optimal functionality and smooth delivery," which doesn't necessarily explain why T-Mobile UK users are already enjoying this stuff -- but then again, we're not the engineers and tech support folks that have to put up with the fallout from a failed launch. The carrier thinks everything will be delayed by about a week, which means that we're now looking at early June before everyone gets it.[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
SPAZ @ May 18th 2009 3:27PM
Son of a BITCH!
Jason @ May 20th 2009 1:10PM
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! #@%#$%#%!@#$#@$$ @#^^&W#$%$#~ DAMMIT!!!
slamEVIL @ May 18th 2009 5:43PM
“...which doesn't necessarily explain why T-Mobile UK users are already enjoying this stuff...The carrier thinks everything will be delayed by about a week...”
maybe it takes that long to replace the european words with american? i.e. centre, color, aluminium
JL @ May 18th 2009 7:20PM
I'd rather them take their time and get it right as a G1 owner.
Sounds like T-Mo has learned their lessons from other companies' smartphone foibles...
Not mentioning any names...
JL @ May 18th 2009 7:20PM
Not picking on anybody, just saying...
Jase @ May 19th 2009 6:28PM
Mine wouldn't complete the boot process after one week of using 1.5 successfully. Back to T-Mobile to fix. Hopefully they're ironing out problems like this.
TeXan @ May 18th 2009 8:46PM
Three words, Root Jesus freke
mark @ May 18th 2009 9:40PM
I think this is FAIL, most of the improvements should have been in the inital release. I hope for the sake of android when cupcake is finally released, it does what they say it can.
Anyone else waiting for donut?
Adam @ May 19th 2009 7:46AM
HA! This is such a joke. Did anyone REALLY think it was going to be released when they said it would. Just like the dozen other promised releases. My guess is that they are just going to push it back until June to compete with all of the other phone releases occuring at that time.