Android accounts for one-quarter of mobile web traffic
Android is mopping up Apple and RIM's declining mobile mindshare in the US, you'll find nothing but corroboration from Quantcast. The analytics firm reckons a full one-quarter of mobile web traffic stateside comes from devices running Google's OS
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Umm that's not true at all, Nilay. Existing T-Mob customers eligible for an upgrade get it for $280 if they don't already have a data plan or $380 if they do.
@MarcusMaximus By the way, if you want to know how I know this, my Nexus One that I bought yesterday for $280 is out for delivery right now.
@MarcusMaximus Oh and this is the last one, but here's a link for reference: http://www.google.com/support/android/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=171784
@MarcusMaximus I'm an the unlimited loyalty plan which they offered me to upgrade to without a contract renewal from my G1 plan. and there are no upgrade paths for me.
@dougi Woah, really? I'm on an unlimited loyalty plan too with the G1 but had to re-up my contract(I was only able to do that because I moved off a family plan to an individual plan about 8 months ago and they apparently made me eligible right away after that... unless the same thing that happened for you happened for me and I just didn't know about it..., and the G1 service plan apparently doesn't count as a data plan). How were you able to get them to not make you re-up?
@MarcusMaximus
That's still ridiculous to charge existing custom $100 more.
This is one of the reason I keep switching between verizon and t-mobile in the past 10 years. Verizon does not treat existing custom differently.
@yejun T-Mobile doesn't treat existing customers wrong either. This is completely on Google, not on t-mobile.... T-mobile is not selling the phone.
@MarcusMaximus
Did you get pushed to the $79.99 plan?
@gerrrg Indeed I did, though it hasn't shown up on my T-Mobile account yet. I'm guessing that'll happen when I actually get/activate the phone?
@Leachpunk
That's not case when you buy t-mobile phone from 3rd party dealer.
@MarcusMaximus
Now you see, that's where I draw the line. I like MY plan waaaay more than that $79.99 one. I'm forced to sit on the sidelines for now, waiting to see what else comes down the pipeline while I make do with my G1.
[Wishing] Seems like we should have gotten $100 from T-Mo/Google for being early adopters...
@MarcusMaximus Not sure how you managed that. I'd have bought for $280 but got the $529 price when I typed my info in. Bought a G1 on day one so I should at least get the after one year subsidized pricing.
I called T-Mo retentions and they said that the easiest thing to do would be to add a line of service to my current account for the Nexus One, then cancel my old line. The kicker was that I wouldn't be able to port my current number to the new line of service after the old was canceled.
Google put a bad taste in my mouth. Been toting around an ugly G1 since the beginning and you want me to cough up another $500? No thanks. Even Apple/AT&T gave customers a reduced price on upgrading.
@Jeremy99 They didn't this last time. iPhone 3G users were just screwed. At any rate, I'm fairly sure I managed it by transferring my account from a family plan to my own individual account, which reset the whole contract thing. I'm sure it probably wasn't supposed to work that way, but that seems to be what happened. So basically, I got lucky.
@gergg: Well, I managed to sell my G1 on ebay for $150, so that more than makes up for that ;)
@MarcusMaximus Nah, they changed it for the iPhone a few weeks in, remember? People bitched and AT&T caved. :-)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10266781-37.html
@Jeremy99 Ah, ok, must have missed that. Well, Google/T-Mob still have a few weeks