Comments on: Nexus One Upgrade Price Change Cometh

By: August

August — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:46:06 +0000

the only question i have is why is google betraying loyal t-mobile customers all they seem to care about is new customers for t-moble

By: Dessert

Dessert — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:44:27 +0000

No. If you didn’t have internet on your plan and you upgraded your phone and added internet, then you paid $279. Those people that already had internet on their plan and wanted to upgrade their phones had to pay $379 and THEY are the ones that qualify for the $100 back.

By: Oce

Oce — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:30:29 +0000

Apparently they only want to market this phone to single people! I’ll keep my grandfathered family plan and wait for the HD2 thank you very much Google!

By: JLowe

JLowe — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:39:19 +0000

All good points. I personall feel confident the issues with the N1 will get cleared up because they simply have to. It’s either that, or Google/TMo claims a big fail and backs out of their whole forray into the unknown with their tails between their legs, which is something I don’t see happening.

By: bob

bob — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:42:38 +0000

I actually read this review the day it was posted. Compared to the HD2, N1 has a better screen (AMOLED), even a smaller one (3.7 compared to HD2′s 4.3) and the Android(?) but has his downsides, the spotty 3G (http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=0bd8ccd4799040c2&hl=en), people being bounced between T-Mobile and HTC because TMO offers the service which is great and HTC made the phone which is also great. the only customer support for N1 is an online forum from google which kinda sucks having to hait for an email to solve the issue you have with the phone, whatever the issue may be.

By: JLowe

JLowe — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:38:42 +0000

Oops I left out the link for the HD2 review (Gizmodo):
http://gizmodo.com/5400593/htc-touch-hd2-review-a-tragedy

By: JLowe

JLowe — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:37:38 +0000

Oops, I left out the link for the HD2 review:
http://gizmodo.com/5400593/htc-touch-hd2-review-a-tragedy

By: Jr

Jr — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:33:23 +0000

Too late, and still doesn’t make up for the lame service plan offered. Sick of getting the shaft by Tmo after being a loyal customer for the last 6 years. Counting down the days until my contract expires.

By: JLowe

JLowe — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:17:26 +0000

Hey Bob, for the hell of it, here’s something I posted on this topic at the TMo Forums:

N1 vs. HD2 (anecdote)

I’ve been excited about the N1 for a long time now, since the very first reports of its existence came out. And, like a lot of people, I got progressively more disappointed when the rumors of its pricing came out. I stayed optimistic though, up until the announcement in Mountain View. Then I found out that it would still cost me $370 with my full upgrade discount. Then, I started reading some of the “early adopter complaints” about connectivity etc. and honestly some of the iPhone fanpeeps got to me with their android hater commentaries.

The allure eventually started to wear off and I started looking around for the other phones. I found the HD2 and checked it out. It’s a bad ass phone. Bad ass. But, it loses like 5,750 points (against the N1) because it runs on WinMo. There were rumors it might get WinMo 7.0. For me, that earned about 3,750 points back based on the optimism that WinMo 7 will be will be a huge improvement. I decided on the HD2.

But… then, I learned that the WinMo upgrade isn’t going to be happening until November 2010. Then, I read this Gizmodo review. Then today, literally today, as I rode the California 1 bus back from the Financial District, I looked into the lap of the guy next to me (yes, I did, don’t get carried away) to see what it was that he was (yes, I’ll say it) fondling.

I thought to myself, “Dude. That’s it. That’s it right there.”

I asked the guy, “Hey, that a Nexus One?”

And it was. I saw it in real life. It was gorgeous. And fast.

He explained that he worked for Google and they hooked him up with one. He said he likes the phone alot. He also said his other phone is an iPhone and that ultimatly, he wishes he could smash the two phones together into one phone. (Kind of unrelated, but he’s using his AT&T card in his N1, so he’s only rolling on EDGE. Nonetheless, he said AT&T’s 3G network is such crap in SF that EDGE is pretty much just as fast and sometimes faster. Btw, he had no complaints about 3G connectivity on his N1.) He said it wouldn’t be a bad idea for people to wait a little for the initial bugs/issues to get fixed or to learn more about the rumored enterprise edition.

All this to say that I considered the HD2 because that phone is sick. But, WinMo 6.0 isn’t going to feel like a good investment to me. And besides that, I saw the light today, on the bus and this dude was fondling it in his lap.

By: bob

bob — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:57:40 +0000

And I am still undecided between the Nexus One and the HTC HD2 which will hit the T-Mobile stores this spring (march?). I guess I can wait a couple more months.