A few days ago, Android Guy Ray reported that “T-Mo has stopped listing and selling the unit.” He hails the G1 for its place in smartphone history and for its place in his heart. Similarly, Devin at MobileCrunch paid his respects to the “solid” G1.

My G1 is still in good shape. Here’s a photo I took with it this morning. This stack of wood is one of many around Silver Spring after the post-storm cleanup. I won’t force any comparisons between downed trees and discontinued phones.

Early responses to the question (over at GigaOm) tend toward the emphatic no. Some emphasize that it’s only been out for a couple of weeks: good point. Others praise the NexusOne as a good or better smartphone: may be a good point, I’ve yet to use one.

These fonts are available under the Apache license. There will be more about this license, and Android’s use of it, in a future post; for now, I’ll just remark that it’s a free software license.

Ascender Corporation developed the Droid fonts. It continues to work on them. Some versions of Droid fonts will be available under commercial licenses.

The Droid fonts should not be confused with the Android Custom Typeface, which is used in the Android logo. I am prevented from showing you the Android Custom Typeface by two things: first, I like you too much to inflict it upon you; and second, the Android brand guidelines forbid me from doing so.

The Droid fonts are key to the Android experience – yes, even more than the Iconic Android is. And I rather like them.

Brief review so far: good phone, in terms of the device itself and in terms of service from T-Mobile; useful for checking email, and for some other webby things; decent camera; weakest point is the GPS.

There are many other Android phones, with more on the way. I’ll link to TechCrunch’s list, since it includes remarks on each phone, and the promise of updates.

For the photo of a G1, I thank jugglerpm.