http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/ Engadget Comments for Nexus One hitting France at €450 contract-free? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Jan 5th 2010 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Jan 5th 2010 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/BTW This is close to the $530 + $156 with an EUR/USD at about 1,50 (which we all know, the longer you wait will only increase...)

http://www.androidcentral.com/outside-us-nexus-one-really-gonna-cost-you
]]>Jan 5th 2010 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/agreed. i paid £0 for my magic on voda on a 12 month contract with 6 months half price!
they're crazy if they think people are going to pay that much...]]>Jan 5th 2010 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/
But the price of the phone on contract varies according to which plan you have, doesn't it? (It might be that it's 200€ on the cheapest monthly plan, but it could be much less if you have a 50€ a month plan...)
At least I hope it stays that way in Europe and they don't start forcing those stupid "smartphone plans" which seem to be the norm in the US.]]>Jan 5th 2010 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/
O2 already do smartphone plans for the iPhone and Palm Pre]]>Jan 5th 2010 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Jan 5th 2010 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/
We know its not multi touch, but does it have a capacitive screen?

eg; Its got the hardware.. just not the software?
]]>Jan 5th 2010 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Jan 5th 2010 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Yes, it's a capacitive screen, and yes, it's just the software, I assume the hardware supports it. (Same counts for the Droid, just look at the Milestone)]]>Jan 5th 2010 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/
yes, it does multi-touch, meaning games will have it. and the comment (in da review) abt games being lame is just non-sense. ]]>Jan 5th 2010 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Jan 5th 2010 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/
Hopefully N1 phone will be soon available to Asia too (it'll be a dream come true for asians to have a real highend android smartphone there)

Nexus One reactions to ordering and pricing: http://bit.ly/nexus-one-price-too-much-or-not-details

]]>Jan 5th 2010 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/
btw, you can tell it's capacitive by the way that the screen _responds_ to input. Unlike resistive which must be hit with a mallet to register.]]>Jan 5th 2010 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/
You're bad at math.

450 Euros, at the current 1.44 exchange rate, is $648 American dollars.]]>Jan 5th 2010 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Jan 5th 2010 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Jan 5th 2010 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Jan 5th 2010 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/A tasty yellow beef
I milk it from my teat
But I try to be discreet
Ooh cheese, ooh cheese]]>Jan 5th 2010 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Jan 5th 2010 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Jan 5th 2010 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Jan 5th 2010 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=1241]]>Jan 5th 2010 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Jan 5th 2010 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Jan 5th 2010 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Jan 5th 2010 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/
Where have you seen any non-fanboy call it an iPhone killer??

]]>Jan 5th 2010 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/where have you seen that I was speaking about this device's fanboys? Face the truce, every device which is highly expected is referenced as an "iPhone-killer", and that's normal.]]>Jan 5th 2010 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/
I'm only familiar with Android prices in Scandinavia and €450 is a pretty normal price for an unlocked phone, I assume it's the same case in France. But just because they choose to sell it unlocked, it doesn't mean we won't see Nexus on a contract.

And just because it's not the *iPhone* they don't have to kill it.
Competition is good..]]>Jan 5th 2010 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/
Yet I'm still asking. Where has it been said that it is?

It seems YOU just want it to be one, and it's not.
I'm pretty sure mostly everyone has said there's not such thing as an iPhone killer...except for the next iPhone.

You don't have to kill anything to be successful.
Not to mention...they don't have a one trick pony. They can have many ways to seemingly "kill" something or someone.
This is just one of them. For the GSM folks who want Droid power but with a little beauty and subtlety...]]>Jan 5th 2010 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Jan 5th 2010 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=ufY&q=nexus+one+iphone+killer&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g1

There's a couple hundred thousand results for 'nexus one iphone killer'.

You're on the internet while you're posting that comment, is it really that difficult to do a quick Google search yourself before you beat someone up for making a claim that thousands of people have already made?

Try doing some research before you let stupidity pour from your brain.]]>Jan 5th 2010 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/seriously, I tried to reply 3 times, it didn't go trough.
Guys did you read what I said? I don't think so. I never said that android sucked or that the device sucky. I think that the career's with contract price for that device is not appropriate: even the iPhone 3gs 16go is currently at 99e. I like android a lot and that device too.
The android lack of emthousiasme in France has nothing to do with the small number of android device, we have a lot of them. It is linked to the careers' lack of promotion, especially SFR with the magic, and the fact that people buy wath's "tendance".
To finish, I didn't say that this device had to be an "iPhone-killer" I said that it was often cnsidered like that and that the iPhone is a repere, that's why. I don't care if it is a better device or not, that the way medias act that's all.]]>Jan 5th 2010 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/
450:200 is not the same as 530:180. For what its worth, at the current exchange rate, the France deal comes out as $649 or $288.]]>Jan 5th 2010 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Jan 5th 2010 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Jan 5th 2010 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/
All American blog foget that prices in Europe have VAT added]]>Jan 5th 2010 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Jan 5th 2010 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/]]>Jan 5th 2010 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/
True, true... He was like taking down the phone even before it was released...]]>Jan 5th 2010 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/I don't quite understand why everyone is disappointed when a new phone isn't earth shattering. IMHO, there has never been a truly ground breaking phone, other than perhaps the very first Motorola DynaTAC.

If you look at the evolution of the Treo line, Blackberry line, and even the iPhone line, it's a series of small improvements. This is generally how engineering works.

Sure, once in a while we get something quite revolutionary, but when you dig below the surface, you soon discover that it was simply the combination of existing technologies that were brought together and packaged for mass consumption, e.g. the original Macintosh (GUI, mouse).
]]>Jan 5th 2010 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/
+100]]>Jan 5th 2010 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Jan 5th 2010 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Source www.gsmweb.nl (these are normal prices in the Netherlands)
So this phone will be free with a one year contract or less than 100 euro's.]]>Jan 5th 2010 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Jan 5th 2010 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Jan 5th 2010 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/
+1]]>Jan 5th 2010 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/
Note however that there are also some problems with the HD2 in terms of SMSs not sending which is the main one (and a terrible one consdiering the calibre and expense of the phone). Hopefully HTC will sort this out before it comes to the states.]]>Jan 5th 2010 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Jan 5th 2010 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-hitting-france-at-450-contract-free/Jan 5th 2010 10:20AM