• Yeah, it’s $530 unsubsidized. Google’s not going to be
selling the phone at cost, like so many people considered. They’re not going to save us from the “making money off of hardware” culture we’ve got right now, so this is basically
just another Android handset, albeit a really good one
• If you want it subsidized, you’ll have to sign up for a 2 year mandatory contract
• There’s only one rate plan: $39.99 Even More + Text + Web for $79.99 total
• Existing customers cannot keep their plan if they want a subsidized phone; they have to change to the one plan, and this only applies to accounts with one single line
• If that doesn’t fly with you, you have to buy the $530 unlocked version—this actually might save you money over two years if you already have a cheap plan
• Family plans, Flexpay, SmartAccess and KidConnect subscribers
must buy the phone unlocked and unsubsidized for $530
• You can only buy
five Nexus One phones per Google account
• There is language in the agreement of shipping
outside the US
• Google will sell it at google.com/phone, which explains what they were doing with that page
a few weeks ago
• Google will still call it the Nexus One apparently, and not the
Google Phone Anyone getting excited yet for what Giz has essentially pegged as a DROID killer? Stay tuned next week for more details from Google’s official announcement at its Mountain View campus.. We’ll be there reporting instant updates