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Originally Posted by Pitamakan
And yeah, giving the N1 first to T-Mobile was just weird. Obviously they wouldn't have struck a deal with AT&T, but signing on with Verizon seems like such an obvious choice.
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I don't know for sure, but remember that T-Mobile gave an exclusive to Google and HTC for the first Android phone, the G1, in late 2008, at what I assume were decent terms for them. It could be that Google was rewarding T-Mobile for that deal last year. Given AT&T's data and voice problems with the iPhone, I'm guessing that scared Google away a bit. And, considering that the world is far bigger than the US alone, and most of the rest of the world uses GSM rather than the CDMA on Verizon (and Sprint), it made a lot of sense to use a radio that could be sold elsewhere without selling two different versions out of the gate.
Also, given the customer service issues that Google. T-Mobile and HTC had with this phone at launch, perhaps it was for the best that they chose one of the less popular networks here for launch.