{"id":621213,"date":"2010-01-05T13:49:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T18:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5440639"},"modified":"2010-01-05T13:49:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T18:49:33","slug":"the-google-phone-is-here-180-on-contract-530-unlocked-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/621213","title":{"rendered":"The Google Phone Is Here: $180 on Contract, $530 Unlocked [Google]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry guys, Google’s not changing the game today: the Nexus One<\/a> will be priced like any other smartphone: $180 on contract with T-Mobile, $530 unlocked, both available through Google’s online store. It’s what we’d heard<\/a><\/em>, if not what we’d dreamt.<\/p>\n

Buying the phone on contract with T-Mobile is exactly like buying any other smartphone on T-Mobile, aside from the fact that the storefront you’re purchasing from may be Google’s<\/a>. If you’re buying it unlocked, though, there are some serious caveats: namely that this is a GSM phone, which means that it’ll only work with T-Mobile or AT&T, and that of the two, the Nexus One is only capable of 3G data connectivity on T-Mobile. So “unlocked” here is more or less meaningless, but hey, no contracts! So there’s that.<\/p>\n

Google handed the Nexus One out to employees weeks ago, and we even had a change to play with one—in other words, little was left to mystery with the Nexus One, as phone. As a product, though, it had potential: Google’s a cash-rich company with a habit of giving things away for free, so… free phone? A partially subisidized, no-contract phone? A Google telco company? Ha, nope<\/em>. But still, it’s a hell of a phone at a reasonable price, so that’s worth something. [Google<\/a>, Nexus One Liveblog<\/a>]<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> Existing T-Mobile customers are pretty much getting screwed on the Nexus One discount. Only new customers are eligible for the $180 price<\/a>.<\/p>\n



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Sorry guys, Google’s not changing the game today: the Nexus One will be priced like any other smartphone: $180 on contract with T-Mobile, $530 unlocked, both available through Google’s online store. It’s what we’d heard, if not what we’d dreamt. Buying the phone on contract with T-Mobile is exactly like buying any other smartphone on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":952,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2BBz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/952"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}