Good news, earthlings! Apparently Google's taken all the
complaints about Nexus One upgrade pricing to heart, because it's giving $100 rebates to current T-Mobile subscribers who paid $379 for the HTC-built handset -- and it says it'll be widening the net and offering upgrades to even more current T-Mo subs, although we still don't know how that's determined. That means the new Nexus One pricing tiers break down like this: $529 unlocked, $279 upgrade for (some) current T-Mo subs, and $179 on a new 2-year contract. Handshakes all around. Now, let's fix up family plan activations and that
crazy double ETF, shall we?
Update: Just in case you needed the reassurance, Google's
confirmed all this to be true.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
posted January 14th 2010 9:57PM
Wait, so the phone just went up in price?
@Sneakz Read the article, from 379 to 279
@Sneakz
That's definitely a typo; Google store still says 529 for it w/out contract.
@GenesisDH read th article, it's for upgrades not unlocked device. It's still 529 unlocked it only dropped for the one year eligible upgrades
@Sneakz
The old pricing structure was:
$179 price was not for upgrades, t'was for new subscribers signing 2 year contract with $79.99 plan.
$279 for existing T-Mobile customers without existing data plan, signing new 2 year, $79.99 plan.
$379 was for existing T-Mo customers with existing data plans, signing new 2 year, $79.99 plan.
$529 is for people not wanting to sign a contract or to get stuck with the $79.99 plan.
@GenesisDH wow you're dense.
@GenesisDH Yes, Apparently, this rebate will work for Tmo subscriber who upgrade their subscription plan to 379 dollars. Again, this is a good news. Explaining it simpler: http://bit.ly/nexus-one-rebate-details
And the name of the google employee was Ethan..
@GenesisDH
you remind me of HomestarRunner
@TonyMontana2367
Okay, he was talking about the full price. Engadget originally posted the no-contract cost as $579 in the article, but it was shortly edited after my (and Sneakz) comments about the price 'increase' which was obviously an error.
It's obvious that the price decrease was for upgrades.
@Sneakz @GenesisDS
Wow.. people are so quick to jump on errors that they didn't see the 579 typo.
Make that GenesisDH before someone complains about that..
Will anybody buy me one? I have many talents..
@ashleythehottiest
Use those talents to earn some money..
;)
@ashleythehottiest
Okay, we're listening. Go ahead and give us your top ten.
I bought the unlocked and could not be happier :)
How about they fix the Edge/3G fluctuation issue that's filled their help center?
@robohoe i second that motion, now that the pricing issue is out of the way, how about actually making the 3G work?
@kongmw That is seriously keeping me away from buying that phone, especially when my current US Cellular contract ends on the 26th and I was looking to switch....
@robohoe
It never ceases to amaze me how many people make comments like this every time a company does something good. Let me see if I have the scenario straight in your head. You reckon that at Google...massive company that it is, they have this one guy, lets call him Brett, and he handles ALL Nexus One issues. Brett is in charge of marketing, R&D, technical support, project management, business dealings with partner companies etc... and when he's working on getting T-Mobile to adjust their pricing he's obviously not working on coding a fix for the 3G/Edge issue.
I mean, that ridiculous scenario above is the only reason you would make such a comment...as if it was the one guy and you'd rather he spent his time sorting your problem rather than this issue.
You don't think, and I'm just guessing here, that there's probably a COMPLETELY separate team who's daily lives are not bogged down worrying about pricing, marketing, sales etc, and they've been working on a fix and it'll be out as soon as they...you know...fix it.
@Tes
But, Google has tons of people who can help fix these issues, developers employed by Google, HTC itself, Android's development community, XDA-Dev Teams, and more. As for the marketing, pricing, and other non-hardware parts of the product, that can be done by a number of Ad Agencies, PR people, their partner T-Mobile, etc.
Google can easily solve all of the problems mentioned across the media, the question is, will they do it quickly? Let's hope they do.
@Tes
I don't know why you're ripping me apart. The only thing I said, is that I hope they (T-Mo, HTC, and/or Google) fix the spotty 3G issue that's been plaguing their forums.
I DON'T CARE about the plans. I don't care about upgrade prices, unlocked prices, locked contract prices. I am just not willing to drop 200-600 dollars on a phone that has a possible firmware/hardware flow that has not been properly tested by people other than by a handful of Google employees and review staff.
That IS something they should focus on, spotty hardware, instead of pricing. If they do indeed fix these issues, people will flock to that phone, regardless of the pricing (like they did to the iPhone when it first came out)
@robohoe Well actually your tone was as sarcastic as mine...this isn't a post related to that issue so why bring it up of what this post Is about you don't care about? I mean, if we just bring up random topics and chose not to comment on the topic at hand the posts here would suck more than they already do.
@GenesisDH
You seemed to miss the sarcasm in my reply and pretty much repeated what I had said as if it's not what I'm saying. I KNOW they have all those people...that's what I said. I'm sitting here at my job looking at a floor full of developers...they all seem to be working. People think developers just sit there until you complain. They are fixing the issue...they're not sitting around waiting for the internet to tell them first. Raise the issue and they get to it.
@robohoe
"That IS something they should focus on, spotty hardware, instead of pricing."
I only just noticed...you've said it AGAIN. What do you mean "concentrating" on? Who should be concentrating on it? The guys that run Google? What do you believe they should be physically doing? Google acknowledged the fault...so you believe their not, this minute working on it? Again you believe that they don't have the manpower to fix their marketing issues AND have developers, probably in a separate building altogether, working on code? Of course they do...but which do you believe would take longer...coding, or changing a price? If you company had both tasks at hand do you believe it's in their best interest to have a bad price out there so they can have the firmware come out first just so people like you who don't seem to understand how the real world works won't mistakenly assume they were busy doing something else as if it's the same resources being used up?
@Tes
I guess you're blind or can't comprehend English.
"I don't know why you're ripping me apart. The only thing I said, is that I hope they (T-Mo, HTC, and/or Google) fix the spotty 3G issue that's been plaguing their forums."
As you can see in my previous post, I said, "They" as in "T-Mo, HTC, and/or Google"
And like I said, with this issue fixed, this phone would probably sell like hotcakes, regardless of the price.
Good looking out on the $100 drop.....Still not buying one - cause I'm still mad as hell! I see they still haven't figured out the "returned upgrade" giving account initiated too recently error.
Never realized that being "off-contract" for over a year had penalties.
Well played Google, Well played.
@Sneakz
Did you actually read the article?
Indeed. Still no upgrades for people on family plans? That's not very nice... They should give some of these phones to T-mobile because they tend to know how to treat long time customers right.
Leave Sneakz alone. The original post listed $579 for the unlocked phone, which would've meant a price increase like he/she said. The post is fixed now, listing the correct price of $529 for the unlocked phone.
@CeluGeek
THANK YOU!!!
Somebody finally caught that we were talking about the OBVIOUS error posted in the original article.
Suckers, Google played ya.
@Goona
How so, everyone got a refund
@TheGM
Mostly because he's too stupid to remember that Apple did the same thing with the original iPhone.
@jon
I wouldn't put it past Goona. One look at his post history both here and Mac Rumors is enough.
@Dafrety
was going to say the same thing; he's just a troll. A lonely, lonely troll.
The Google fanboys are mad, dumb idiots.
@andthemaniam
You're the troll, bloody idiot.
@jon
I knew i would smoke you out of your hole, so because Apple did it, Google should do it. Damn you guys are idiots.
@Goona No, Apple gave people credit to the apple store. Google is actually giving a refund.
@B3astofthe3ast
Dude for all you know this could be credit that can only be used at T-mobile.
@Goona
Well handled
@Goona
It's a refund, not credit. I'm not sure if you were born at the time, but Apple lowered the original iPhone price by $200 a small time after the launch. And what did they offer to customers who had paid full price earlier. Not a $200 refund, not even a $200 Apple gift card but just a $100 Apple gift card.
@TheGM you guys are idiots... stop feeding the freaking troll and just ignore him/her, that's how you deal w/ these scumbags.
Before you reply to Goona, click on his name and read some of his comments. I had a good laugh.
300+ comments since Jan 5 and trollin' :)
This phone's distribution is so limited because it hasn't gone through T-Mobile's quality certification testing. That's the same reason it went to market with such horrible signal issues...
the free market has spoken!
@sinai : your avatar makes that statement pretty ironic.
@psycros
because che thought the proletariats should unite and fight monopolistic capitalism?
you sir, do not know what you are talking about.
@sinai
I think it's because you have an avatar of a person who supports a socialist economic system yet your comment lauds the merit of the free market economic system.
@derX
Che Guevara was a Marxist. The Fourth stage of Karl Marx's theory of Historical Materialism is actually Capitalism. Sinai is actually spot on. According to Marx, Capitalism leads to a proletariat uprising; thus Capitalism being a very necessary component of Marxist/Che Guevara theory.
@ready 2 rumble
love it when hippies put on che shirts and forget he was a guerrilla fighter, too