And trust me, they're pissed. While in past years the Google workforce has netted as much as $20,000 or $30,000 in their annual Christmas bonus, this year they're getting a measly G1 phone or $400 if they're lucky enough to live in a country without the G1 yet.

Here's the internal memo that is the equivalent of a pile of hot coal:

If you love your Google Android, you might have to start loving it a little less overseas. T-Mobile has just released a statement addressing the issue of many of their T-Mobile G1 users who travel, getting stuck with huge data roaming charges, even when they try to shut the data roaming option off:

So iSuppli who has become the export on this sort of thing have just released a study on the components cost of the new T-Mobile G1 and granted that's without labor costs, software, or research and development, but they've determined the phone costs about $144 for HTC to make.

Why is that significant? 

Well that didn't take long. Just two weeks after the T-Mobile G1, the first phone to feature Google Android was released, it's already been unlocked, a jail breaking feat accomplished by a group on a xda Developers forum. The basic idea idea is just going on Android Market and downloading P-Terminal, here are the specifics:  

Tragedy struck after the official launch party of the T-Mobile G1, as after actress Bonnie Somerville left the party with a friend at 2am, a teenage black male came up to her demanding her purse. Somerville screamed, causing the man to shoot her friend in the lower back with a .22 handgun.

The suspect then demanded, "Bitch, gimme your purse or you'll get shot too!"

When I heard the news that preorders for The T-Mobile G1, the first phone to feature Google's Android OS, had sold 1.5 million copies I was shocked. 

When Marin Perez read the news he was shocked and suspicious. So he contacted Anders Byland of Motley Fool who wrote the article that originally quoted that 1.5 million figure and asked how he arrived at it.  

The T-Mobile G1 doesn't officially come out for another 10 days but if the preorders are any indication, and 1.5 million is a HUGE indication, than it looks like Google's Android OS and the G1 are going to make a big splash October 22nd.

That figure represents actual customer orders, not units shipping to retail.