http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/ Engadget Comments for 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/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/Jan 14th 2010 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/Jan 14th 2010 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/
That's definitely a typo; Google store still says 529 for it w/out contract.]]>Jan 14th 2010 10:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/Jan 14th 2010 10:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/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.]]>Jan 14th 2010 10:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/Jan 14th 2010 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://bit.ly/nexus-one-rebate-details

And the name of the google employee was Ethan.. ]]>Jan 14th 2010 11:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/
you remind me of HomestarRunner]]>Jan 14th 2010 11:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/
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.]]>Jan 15th 2010 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/
Wow.. people are so quick to jump on errors that they didn't see the 579 typo.]]>Jan 15th 2010 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/Jan 15th 2010 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/Jan 14th 2010 9:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/
Use those talents to earn some money..

;)]]>Jan 14th 2010 10:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/
Okay, we're listening. Go ahead and give us your top ten.]]>Jan 14th 2010 10:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/Jan 14th 2010 10:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/Jan 14th 2010 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/Jan 15th 2010 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/Jan 15th 2010 1:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/
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.]]>Jan 15th 2010 5:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/
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.]]>Jan 15th 2010 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/
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)]]>Jan 15th 2010 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/
@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.]]>Jan 15th 2010 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/
"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?
]]>Jan 15th 2010 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/
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.]]>Jan 15th 2010 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/
Never realized that being "off-contract" for over a year had penalties.
Well played Google, Well played.

]]>Jan 14th 2010 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/
Did you actually read the article? ]]>Jan 14th 2010 10:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/Jan 14th 2010 10:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/Jan 14th 2010 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/
THANK YOU!!!

Somebody finally caught that we were talking about the OBVIOUS error posted in the original article.]]>Jan 15th 2010 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/Jan 14th 2010 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/How so, everyone got a refund]]>Jan 14th 2010 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/
Mostly because he's too stupid to remember that Apple did the same thing with the original iPhone. ]]>Jan 14th 2010 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/I wouldn't put it past Goona. One look at his post history both here and Mac Rumors is enough.]]>Jan 14th 2010 11:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/
was going to say the same thing; he's just a troll. A lonely, lonely troll.]]>Jan 14th 2010 11:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/Jan 14th 2010 11:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/
You're the troll, bloody idiot. ]]>Jan 14th 2010 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/
I knew i would smoke you out of your hole, so because Apple did it, Google should do it. Damn you guys are idiots. ]]>Jan 14th 2010 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/Jan 14th 2010 11:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/
Dude for all you know this could be credit that can only be used at T-mobile. ]]>Jan 14th 2010 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/
Well handled]]>Jan 14th 2010 11:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/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. ]]>Jan 14th 2010 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/Jan 15th 2010 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/300+ comments since Jan 5 and trollin' :)]]>Jan 15th 2010 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/Jan 14th 2010 10:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/Jan 14th 2010 10:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/Jan 14th 2010 10:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/because che thought the proletariats should unite and fight monopolistic capitalism?

you sir, do not know what you are talking about.]]>Jan 14th 2010 10:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/
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.]]>Jan 15th 2010 12:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/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. ]]>Jan 15th 2010 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/google-lowers-nexus-one-upgrade-price-to-279-issues-100-refun/
love it when hippies put on che shirts and forget he was a guerrilla fighter, too]]>Jan 15th 2010 9:26AM