T-Mobile Customers Get a $100 Price Break on the Nexus One
T-Mobile Customers Get a $100 Price Break on the Nexus One
Posted 01/16/2010 at 11:45am
| by Justin Kerr
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The Nexus One may not be selling as well as Google had hoped, but its hard to deny, its creating a lot of buzz in an industry that seemed to ignore anything that doesn't come from Apple. One might make the argument that the biggest barrier to the Nexus One’s success is its partnership with T-Mobile, and more specifically, the steep selling price of the device itself, even for those willing to enter into a contract.
At $379 for the vast majority of T-Mobile customers, and $529 for those wanting the phone without a service plan, you are pretty much limiting yourself to the money is no object crowd, along with the geek community. In a move no doubt intended to help boost sales in other market segments, Google has announced it is dropping the price of the Nexus One for T-Mobile subscribers by $100 making the cost a mere $279 per phone. This was the price being offered to new customers, but is now being extended to its existing subscribers as well.
T-Mobile customers who purchased the phone at full price will be issued a $100 credit, and the new price is already in effect. Is $279 enough to make you want a Nexus One? Or is T-Mobile still the deal breaker?
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neo1piv14
January 19, 2010 at 7:24am
T-Mobile is a huge deal breaker for me. I'd rather just wait until this thing hits Verizon and get it there. I got T-Mobile back in December 08, and I've regretted it every day since. Their salesmen will outright lie to you in order to get you to purchase something (one of them told me the MyTouch 3G was basically the same phone as the Nexus, just with a smaller screen). Then when you take the phone home and find out everything they told you about their service was a complete lie, they hit you with "It doesn't matter what the salesman told you that was BS, you're going to have to pay $350 to get out of your contract now." I'm willing to bet that if T-Mobile gave everyone a one week trial period with their phones/service, they'd have a lot higher rate of users switching to someone good.
fullur
January 19, 2010 at 6:07am
Not being someone who leaves the "average user area" very often, ATT and Verizon do not really impress me with their maps. T-Mobile would do just as good a job as either one for coverage for me for less than half the price. Problem is, they don't have the phones I want. The Nexus One actually looked intriguing to me until I saw the picture in the article. That sucker is butt-ugly.
Paul_Lilly
January 16, 2010 at 5:05pm
I was gonna bite and retire my G1, but this deal only applies to Individual accounts, not Family Plans. Google/T-Mobile, why do you hate families?
-Paul Lilly
jonnygotguns
January 16, 2010 at 5:46pm
lol seriously man they hat family planse i have to pay for my families stuff as well and btw is the G1 still a good phone? my son is 14 and im gonna get him his first cell phone
Paul_Lilly
January 16, 2010 at 7:04pm
The G1 is decent, though HTC/Google/T-Mobile really dropped the ball by including so little internal memory. That becomes a pretty big deal if you install a bunch of apps, because you're not able to install apps to an SD card. The way around this is to 'root' the phone, and there are some really nice third-party ROMs out there (I'm currently running xRom Eclair v1.0). Incidentally, we posted a guide a few months back showing how to root a G1, which you can view here.
That's from a power user's perspective. At 14, the kid should be thrilled with a G1, rooted or stock.
-Paul Lilly
nekollx
January 18, 2010 at 8:48am
to be fair though that is only a temporary limit, SD card saving is something they are working on after all.
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ascendant
January 16, 2010 at 2:09pm
it's not tmobile that's the deal breaker... especially since i live in canada. It's Android... i'm just not impressed by it.
jonnygotguns
January 16, 2010 at 12:18pm
i actaully just broke my blackberry and i am looking for a new phone...
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