so i’m a customer at Tmo for 5 yrs in excellent standing , but I’m not showing any credit for EIP…fml

Samsung Tablet….that DOESN’T have much better specs than the TP2

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Tablet_PC/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=A1258080

Cheapest HP Tablet……$800. Yea…it has a DVD Writer and more space, and a better processor…it doesn’t have bluetooth, you can’t access the internet from anywhere you go, you can’t use it as a phone, it won’t fit in your pocket….so…when you find a laptop that will fit in my pocket, has bluetooth, can be used as a phone, AND is touch screen……you let me know and oh yea…it has to be around the $550 price range

Warning: If you are the type to upgrade a phone like I do, every year, the better move is to pay the extra $50 and extend for one year.

This entitles you to a full discount / upgrade after 11 months on any new phone.

If you do the two year price, you have to wait 22 months before being entitled to the full discount.

At the price this phone retails, getting the full discount pencils out as the wiser move for $50 more.

Also, so you know, I confirmed with them my understanding on how discounts work. I am not too sure some of you know.

Discount (or upgrade pricing) tracks differently than plan length.

If you extend your contract for two years, for example, this does not mean you cannot upgrade your phone for two years. It means you can’t quit T-Mo for two years. You can change your plan withing that two years and also upgrade your phones.

If you go with the two year contract price you can:

1. Get a partial upgrade price (discount) on a phone after about 11 months into the plan. The partial discount is usually about $80 to $100 off the price.

2. After 22 months you are entitled to a full discount or upgrade pricing.

3. If you get the one year contract price, after 11 months you are entitled to a full discount or upgrade.

Hope that helps.

I also have some good “inside info” that I will be posting at 9:15 p.m. PDT, tonight, August 11.

Bonus Comment: The CSR said that they still have the “credit plan.” A customer has on file a credit amount, in dollars. A customer can choose to apply that amount against a phone purchase and have that amount spread over four months (may be three months). The balance not financed is due on your next month’s bill if you are ordering online or on the phone.

No marketing, no fanfare, no promotions, no official price, no employee training, apparently no info to employees in stores, and few phones shipped to stores = oddest behavior I have ever seen on a product debut.

Have to wonder how many people have been reading “it’s $400 with a two year contract and upgrade fee” and saying “oh well.”

That’s the good and bad of the Net. Bad news can spread like wild fire, but so can good news. This $400 price has been online too long. I think T-Mo hurt their sales big time. Don’t know why they kept pricing so secret.

In the end I am sure someone’s head will roll over this, whoever made the command decision to not disclose the price to where thousands eventually heard it was $400.