T-Mobile makes internal mention of Nexus One (sort of) for 'early January' release
By Chris Ziegler 
posted December 29th 2009 11:18AM
posted December 29th 2009 11:18AM
posted December 29th 2009 11:18AM
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@Lucas I don't know about the droid, but I dropped my USB modem contract with them after 2 months. Verizon sucks. Great network, but everything else is bad. Like you could put it in an 80's comedy as the "big bad company". That ridiculous and stupid.
However, the droid itself is great, and if you have a normal phone contract and they have your current address, the whole thing will probably be OK. (Verizon had a wrong address and sent texts telling me my bill was overdue to my USB card. Stupid).
Who is planning on dropping verizon and droid? I haven't heard that so much.
BooShakAla! Read This Prediction From Moi In Feb 2008: http://www.prepaid-press.com/news_detail.php?t=paper&id=2121
If this is real, Google has killed Android.
@Uncontrol
Still waiting for caffeine to kick in, would you mind explaining a bit more to me. Just curious...
@Uncontrol You read too many "pundit" articles. Relax.
@Uncontrol or saved it. You see the Behold 2 UI and the new Sense screenshots? Yikes!
from TMoNews
Update: Our sources are confirming a January 5th date, 9am, ordering through Google ONLY. Sadly, still no word on pricing.
Well, let's think rationally here. Google isn't going to sell a phone for $500-$600 straight through them. Why launch a phone like this, which clearly competes with the iPhone, and then price it out of consumers hands. So it's going to come in under $250, but how? The rumor is obviously the ad enabled version, but how long do you have to look at ads? Is it for the life of the phone? That seems ridiculous, as a few months of ads would easily pay for the phones subsidy, so what will it come down to?
The thing I'm wondering is, how is the battery going to perform. Everything else about the phone is rock solid (although I've heard the camera falls short). If it has the Snapdragon in there, and that beautiful OLED screen (which potentially has lower power draw) I'm worried about a 1400ma battery.
I can get out of the contract I'm on at pretty much any time right now, so I'm just waiting on the deets. This certainly is a fascinating moment in wireless history.
@Siraris
Why does it have to be ad supported?
The phone costs about $150 to make and Google are not interested in hardware margins, they make more from traffic.
$199 is the touted sim free price and makes sense in the Google world. Got to love em.
@dansus Where in the world do you get the idea that it would cost $150 to produce? Based on specs released, the Nexus One is one of the most advanced phones on the market, certainly more advanced than the Palm Pre which costs $549 without a contract.
@Siraris
Google will sell this with little to no markup, unlike say a palm pre.
@stabbytheicepic I agree with you, that's my point. There's no way they're going to sell it for over $250. That being said, the phone doesn't cost $150 to make, I'd say more like $300-$400. You can't sell a product and lose $200 on each unit, so there has to be some way they're going to subsidize the cost.
@Siraris
Dont be a muppet, it costs about $150 to make the phone, the rest is marketing costs and profit.
The iphone costs about $130 to make.
@Siraris
I seriously doubt there is more then 200 dollars worth of hardware in the nexus one.
@dansus
I tell a lie, $130 was based on the original iphone. 3GS costs $178.
http://theappleblog.com/2009/06/25/iphone-3gs-hardware-cost-breakdown/
Ahhh the joys of living in Seattle, where Tmobile is actually the best provider.
@stabbytheicepic
Completely envious. See earlier post of mine that explains my experience with T-Mo in my city.
You'll have to let me know how the Nexus One is once you you get it. Please? Thank you. Good day.
@GeorgeAnthony
I already set my alarm for 10 till 6am on the 5th.
Will the bands work on 3G in the UK?
Well, need to pay off the CLIQ because it looks like I am going for a Nexus One next year.
@shizbgby This is almost exactly what I'm talking about.
HOLY MACKEREL. I am so excited, I would like to punch myself in the second face I don't have temporarily.
SPLENDID. Get it done T-mo. They are pulling out all the stops to get people on their network. Commendable. FREAK OUT.
Hmmm I have an original iPhone unlocked on T-Mobile and it is getting long in the tooth and unless Apple launches a phone on T-Mobile or Sprint I just don't see myself getting another iPhone as much as I like the thing. I also refuse to sign a 2 year contract. I hope this phone is contract free at a good price (under $300), it's amazing how much people think phones cost to make because of the ridiculous prices. Look at the iPod Touch prices and add about $25 worth of parts and you have a phone that still makes a shit ton of money.
I think just on principle alone I have to buy this phone.
if this phone is $250 or less, i WILL buy it, even though i already bought a CLIQ in October, idk if they pricing will still work for me. :-\
I can always open up another line though :D
Goodbye G1... Hello N1!
We can all wake up from the Nexus One dream:
it's a DEVELOPER PHONE.
http://developer.android.com/index.htm
We're gonna have to wait for HTC Bravo and Sony Ericsson Xperia X10...
@zenomatic
the g1 was a developer phone too and it looked exactly like the g1 released by tmobile.
Nexusone will be the same. It MIGHT have monor changes than the ones given to google employees, but it will most likely be the same phone.
Maybe with a new name.
Also awsome news! I live in la and tmobile coverage is great.
@inhuman
Yes, the G1 and HTC Dream were identical. This is not the case with Nexus One and HTC Bravo (same hardware, different design). In my opinion, the Nexus One has a much more sleeker design than the Bravo. And since the Nexus One is a developer phone, it will be sold only to developers through the Android Market account, HTC Bravo will be released and sold to consumers later.
Let me get this straight. I can't keep my family plan to have the privilege of using this phone? What does the rate plan have to do with the hardware? This is nuts. This just might stop me from getting it. We have 3 lines with TMO. Now, in order to get the N! I have to have a separate plan? NO WAY!! It takes a certain level of arrogance to think that this phone is so special that it would be acceptable.