Unfortunately, the event did not draw much of a crowd, since few people stood in line early Wednesday in front of yet to be opened stores, just to make sure they could get their hands on an Android smartphone.

While it’s true that some Americans had already pre-ordered the gadget and High Tech Computer Corporation’s (HTC) the Dream had been delivered to them starting Tuesday evening, the much expected release of the device on the Unites States market did not quite fall into the category of a “craze.”

National director of business development for T-Mobile (with the company being the G1 phone’s carrier in the U.S.) Jonathan Blood revealed that the largest sales had been registered in a T-Mobile-owned retail store in Boston, where a number of 20 G1s had been sold within the first hour from the store opening its doors to consumers.

Nevertheless, the turnout for Google’s Android phone stands no comparison to the one that occurred on July 11, this year, when (yes, you guessed it) the iPhone 3G was launched. Apple Incorporated’s gadget rendered hundreds of people to stay in line even for a couple of days in order to purchase the iPhone 3G as soon as possible.

The Dream is the first handset that runs on the Android operating system, a software platform developed by the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) in an attempt to jump start open standards for mobile gadgets.

The smartphone is scheduled to be launched in the United Kingdom later on in November, while in non-English speaking countries, it is set to be made available first quarter of next year.