Comments on: Purchasing The Nexus One

By: Sheldon

Sheldon — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:24:29 +0000

Ye 279 for existing customers?, come on!
How can you give it to new customers for 179 and screw the rest of us out another 100 bucks?

I can get a friggin EVO from sprint with a cheaper 2 year contract and be less out of pocket, is this a joke google?
Now lets see….

279 for a phone and the iPhone4′s highest end option will be 299…mmmmm I wonder what I will do.
So google, now instead of getting your device in the market, to actually push a backing for it in a iPhone dominated world, you both screw us and tmobile with your insane pricing.

All I can say is shame on you, guess who will rather get an iPhone now.
Maybe google should go crawl back under a rock and stick to search.

By: matt

matt — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:27:39 +0000

Dude obviously you don’t get the Wireless industry. They are not making any money on the phones they have to make it on the service contracts. That is also why they are charging so high of etf for the phone before the 180 days if you don’t know anything about the wireless industry then you don’t need to complain.

By: Siona

Siona — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:54:44 +0000

Ok, I don’t have a problem with T-Mobile trying to drum up business by offering a good price to new customers, but what gets me is that I have a Family 5 Faves plan with substantially more min. then the upgrade price allows. This is absurd, if I want the upgrade price, they cancel my current service, which is paying them more, and reduce not only the money they bring in, but what I get in services. Anyone have a good explanation for that idiocy? Why not offer existing customers a good upgrade price and the ability to keep their current services as long as they are at least as good as the minimum of the service package for new service pricing?

By: BenNYC

BenNYC — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:48:31 +0000

Wow this sucks!
I have a great plan at the moment at T-Mobile for 39.99 1000 any time minutes unlimited night and weekends and 400 text messages a month. I really don’t want to lose this to a More Plan that only offers you 500 any time minutes. I was told by T-Mobile I could add an internet plan for an extra 29.99 a month. Unfortunately I can’t do this with the Nexus one Google is bugging out 79.99. I think I might just wait for the HTC HD2.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:13:48 +0000

The reason that you have to stay on an individual plan for 120 days before switching back to a family plan is related to Google getting paid by T-mobile. 120 days is T-mobile’s commission charge back period for dealers. If you change before then Google looses the money that T-mobile paid them for your activation.

By: Marcelo L

Marcelo L — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:02:17 +0000

For those of you who are not too happy (I being one), consider adding your name to this online petition regarding this issue….almost 300 customers have already signed:

http://www.petitiononline.com/nexusone/petition.html

By: HBL

HBL — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:15:05 +0000

Nope. $539. It’s cheaper in the long run to not pay for the subsidy. The Even More unlimited talk/text/web is $99.99/month. The Even More Plus unlimited talk/text/web is $79.99/month. Over the life of a 24-month contract? That’s $480 extra (add the $179 and it’s $659 total). If I stuck with the 500 minute Even More plan with text/web, I would not be paying more (compared to the $79.99 Even More Plus unlimited plan) over the life of a 24-month contract. Yes, $179 is a lot lower than $539, but I make a lot more than 500 minutes of calls every month so using that for a comparison in price does not make sense. Even if I chose the Even More Plus 500 minute plan with text/web, I would still be in the same place of saving money in the long run.

Hope this makes sense. My phone is showing up Thursday. Looking forward to it.

By: Prime

Prime — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:10:51 +0000

lucky guy. please tell me you bought it for $179!?! Especially if youre gonna be a future t-mobile customer…

By: sorandkairi

sorandkairi — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:04:50 +0000

U dont!

By: sorandkairi

sorandkairi — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:00:34 +0000

Dude ur being a hypocrit. Ur telling every1 that u are outraged and have to right to express said outrage yet u come down on ppl telling u that u cant do anything about it, which is true. Ur actin like the practice of giving “discounts” to new customers is new to u or to the business in general! The fact remains that even tho i am “outraged”, u and i both knew the cost of the phone and realized that it would be a high costing device at this point and time. Being some1 that can afford it myself, i choose not to purchase the Nexus One until the price drops. But that’s me. People can choose to buy it or not; it’s up to them. It just should like u cant afford the phone and are pissed about it. But dude, that’s cool, but stop hating so damn much!