The official announcement of the new phone — dubbed the G2 — spurred Web searches for the device and made it a trending topic on Google. But the carrier temporarily pulled down a new promotional site for the phone after discovering that the website showed some visitors the names and email addresses of other people registering for information about the device.
The G2 is the follow-up to 2008’s G1, the first phone based on Google’s Android operating system, and T-Mobile promises that it will deliver tight integration with Google.” The carrier also is touting the phone as the first to take full advantage of the faster speeds on its new HSPA+ network, which is speedier than regular 3G.
Wednesday morning T-Mobile put up a webpage to promote its upcoming phone, giving just a couple of teaser paragraphs and a sign-up form for people who wanted to be emailed with more information.
But the site was soon taken down, prompting PCWorld to ask What’s the deal with T-Mobile’s G2 launch?”
For a brief time after the registration site launched this morning, some individuals may have seen another random person’s name and e-mail address during the sign-up process,” a T-Mobile spokesman said. When the issue was identified, we immediately took action to disable the site until the issue was resolved.
