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T-Mobile Preorders 1.5 Million G1 Android Phone

T-Mobile has already taken 1.5 million preorders of Google’s G1 Android phone, according to reports.

The staggering number of presales comes just 10 days before the T-Mobile-powered Android’s official launch date Oct. 22. Neither T-Mobile, Google or handset manufacturer HTC has confirmed the reports that first appeared on Motley Fool. According to the Web site, Apple originally thought it would sell 10 million second-generation iPhones Apple this year. The G1 preorders are three times the original amount of phones T-Mobile ordered from Taiwan-based HTC, which rapidly sold out.

Current T-Mobile subscribers have first dibs on preorders.

“Because of overwhelming demand, we’re setting aside even more T-Mobile G1 phones as a special thanks to you, our loyal T-Mobile customers,” reads a statement on T-Mobile’s Web site. “Supplies are limited, so this is your chance to order yours today before it hits the streets and guarantee you don’t go without.”

Pricing for the G1 starts at $179.99 for T-Mobile customers, plus taxes and fees; pricing is subject to upgrade eligibility criteria—a two-year agreement is required. Orders taken prior to Oct. 21 will be delivered around Nov. 10, the company said.

T-Mobile will provide 3G services in 16 mass markets, the company said on its Web site, eventually expanding to 22 markets by Oct. 22. By mid-November, that number is expected to increase to 27 markets.

Preinstalled Google features on the G1 include Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk and YouTube.

An application storefront—the Android Market—features apps in addition to mashups of existing and new services from developers.

Some of the bells and whistles on the G1 include a touch screen, Web browsing capabilities, 3-megapixel camera, customizable home screen, QWERTY keyboard, IM/text/e-mail, music player, video playback, and 3G network and Wi-Fi access.

 

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FACTBOX: Who won Nobel Prizes in 2008?

The 2008 Nobel season ended Monday with the announcement of the winner of the prize for Economics.

Here is a summary of this year’s laureates.

* ECONOMICS

— Paul Krugman, professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University and a critic of the Bush administration, won for work that integrates the previously disparate research fields of international trade and economic geography, helping to explain issues such as what drives worldwide urbanization.

* PEACE:

— Former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari won for a three decades-long career of peacemaking around the globe from Namibia to Kosovo.

* LITERATURE:

— French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio took the Literature prize. The writer, whose early work in the 1960s was acclaimed for its wordplay and imagery, later delved into childhood themes. His breakthrough first novel, “Le proces-verbal” (“The Interrogation”), was published in 1963.

* CHEMISTRY: 

— Osamu Shimomura of Japan and Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien won for their discovery of the protein GFP. The green fluorescent protein was first observed in jellyfish and it helps scientists spot the onset of maladies such as cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.

* PHYSICS:

— Yoichiro Nambu, a Tokyo-born American citizen, and Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan won for separate work that helped explain why the universe is made up mostly of matter and not anti-matter via processes known as broken symmetries.

* PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE:

— Luc Montagnier, director of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi of the Institut Pasteur took half the prize for discovering the HIV virus that has killed 25 million people since it was identified in the 1980s.

— Dr. Harald zur Hausen of the University of Duesseldorf and a former director of the German Cancer Research Center shared the other half of the prize for work that went against the established opinion about the cause of cervical cancer.

 

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Books Banned at One Time or Another

An all too common pastime is banning books. Sad, frightening — and far too frequent. Who bans books? Libraries, schools, entire towns, and sometimes, in the past, the government.

Banning books isn’t something that was done centuries or decades ago. It happens nearly every week somewhere in the United States. Often people take notice of banned books, protest, and the proscription is lifted. Sometimes nobody notices and the banned book stays lost to a school or country.

Naturally, everyone expects that a literary agency would be opposed to censorship and banning books. And that’s absolutely true — as a profession. literary agents are appalled by censorship. (Although there’s nothing quite like banning or threatening to ban a book to increase that book’s sales.) Censorship in all forms must be opposed.

Censorship is an old pastime and new hobby of the feebleminded. In January 1997 a Minneapolis, Minnesota parent inspired an investigation of whether R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps should be banned in the school library because it is too scary for children. Never mind that there are 180 million copies of Goosebumps in print –not a hard book for a child to obtain.

The following list of books banned is by no means comprehensive. If you have any additions, please let us know by comments :

• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
• Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 
• Blubber by Judy Blume 
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson 
• Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
• Carrie by Stephen King
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Christine by Stephen King
• Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Cujo by Stephen King
• Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen 
• Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite 
• Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck 
• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
• Decameron by Boccaccio
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Fallen Angels by Walter Myers 
• Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland 
• Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• Forever by Judy Blume
• Grendel by John Champlin Gardner 
• Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam 
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
• Have to Go by Robert Munsch 
• Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman 
• How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
• Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 
• Impressions edited by Jack Booth 
• In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak 
• It’s Okay if You Don’t Love Me by Norma Klein
• James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl 
• Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
• Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
• Lysistrata by Aristophanes
• More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz 
• My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
• My House by Nikki Giovanni 
• My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara
• Night Chills by Dean Koontz 
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 
• On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer 
• One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn 
• One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
• Ordinary People by Judith Guest
• Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women’s Health Collective 
• Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy 
• Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl 
• Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
• Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz 
• Separate Peace by John Knowles 
• Silas Marner by George Eliot
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs 
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 
• The Bastard by John Jakes
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 
• The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier 
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• The Devil’s Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
• The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs 
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 
• The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson 
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 
• The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder 
• The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks 
• The Living Bible by William C. Bower
• The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
• The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman 
• The Pigman by Paul Zindel 
• The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
• The Shining by Stephen King
• The Witches by Roald Dahl 
• The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder 
• Then Again, Maybe I Won’t by Judy Blume 
• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
• Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
• Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth

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