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A quiet celebration took place in T-Mobile headquarters?  What is there to celebrate today with the economy in mind, you ask?  Not much, but T-Mobile’s G1 reached it’s one millionth sale and it is the most popular 3G phone on their network. 

For Google Android and T-Mobile fans, you must be happy that the G1 has reached one million sales, but the fact remains that the iPhone is a lot more popular than the G1.  Take, for instance, the iPhone 3G was sold 1.6 million times in the last quarter and it took T-Mobile from October-April to sell the G1 one million times.  Ironically enough, T-Mobile announced this feat on the same day Apple announced that one billion apps were downloaded from their App Store.  Any way you look at it, the iPhone has always sold strong and will probably remain selling well.  T-Mobile can’t celebrate just yet until they can really fight the iPhone, whether it be with the G1, the G2, or any other future smartphone. 

Unfortunately for T-Mobile, they are still fourth most popular cell phone carrier in America, and recent profit sales and user subscriptions have declined over time.  It will still take some work, new phones, and original thinking to put T-Mobile back in the race and make them a real threat to Verizon and AT&T. 

Read [Electronista]