Comments on: Get a Google Nexus One on a T-Mobile Family Plan

By: Yash

Yash — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:47:38 +0000

Stupid google is too dumb. they don’t know how to do business, and that’s why they are not in any competition with an iphone. too bad i am going to get samsung behold-II

By: K

Mon, 10 May 2010 17:45:13 +0000

Seems kind of silly of Google not to let people with family plans upgrade to the Nexus One… A large portion of the market (people who can actually afford a Nexus One) are married couples on family plans. They are also the ones who will end up buying one for their teenagers etc. If they really want to beat out the iPhone… they should be grabbing every piece of the pie. I definitely won’t ever buy anything other than an Android phone after getting my G1. I LOVE IT!!! But I would really love to by a Nexus One now… to bad I have a family plan. My wife and I would both be upgrading TODAY!

By: markus

markus — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:34:25 +0000

Since I got my mytouch, I’ve periodically seen android phone users get upset with google and the knee jerk response was always, “screw them, ill just get an iPhone.
when I got my phone, I rooted it, customized it, ran cyanogenmod on it, and fell in love with it. When the nexus one came out, I a tad annoyed i hadnt waited just a little longer so i could have bought it instead.
However, my girlfriend and I have been on a family plan for 4 years, at one point we had 4 lines on our account. I figured by now these phones would be available to those of us with family plans…. it seems insane that its not.
Since I got my phone, Ive actually played around with a couple of iPhones and found it to be an overall superior experience to the mytouch, both in responsiveness, and be tter 3g speeds on AT&T.

I really think google is ruining this, for both T-mobile, HTC, and themselves.

I’m not trying to throw a tantrum, this isnt a knee jerk reaction, the magic is just gone from the whole experience.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:34:48 +0000

Sorry guys I would say google suxx not T-mobile.

Why cant they just offer their phone like apple in stores?
HTC HD2 is also offered in stores.
Google getting very arrogant day by day as it grows.. I start to hate them more than Microsoft.

By: Jeremy Winter

Jeremy Winter — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:00:20 +0000

Interesting Mike, I was under the impression that T-mobile came up with their plans, not Google.

The plan for the N1 is almost identical to the Iphone, Palm Pre, and the Motorola Droid from Verizon. This link here does a great job of comparing the phones and their plans.

Nexus One vs Iphone, Droid & Palm Pre â€“ Total Cost Of Ownership

To me it simply sounds like T-mobile is not honoring their customers eligible phone upgrades. Apparently Verizon is for the Droid.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 04:58:32 +0000

@Shawn

I understand your frustration with the requirements to own a Nexus One; along with everyone else with a family [plan]. However, don’t take your frustration out on T-Mobile.

Google is the man behind the curtain, T-Mobile is just a puppet.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:50:38 +0000

I was on the order form ready to transfer our service from Verizon to T-Mobile and buy 2 Nexus Ones when I saw that there was no family plan option. It was a complete deal breaker. I’m considering the iPhone 3GS now with ATT.

Sorry T-Mobile, bad move.

By: Jeremy Winter

Jeremy Winter — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:36:12 +0000

Your point is definitely valid Ben. If you qualified for the $279 price then you do not have a data plan. If you did have a data plan at the moment, you would be offered the $379 discounted price.

According to a recent study, the hardware alone for the Nexus One cost $184. That doesn’t include manufacturing, packaging, and shipping, so new customers are getting a Nexus One for below cost.

Being conservatively, if the manufacturing, packaging, and shipping cost $100 per phone(just a wild speculation), you would be getting the Nexus One at cost for $279.

On the surface it may seem that the longer you have been with T-Mobile and the more you pay them each month, the lesser incentive is offered too you, but it could very well be that these are incredible deals and the best that could be realistically offered.

Just some food for thought.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:24:29 +0000

I went in to a t-mobile store and asked about getting the Nexus One as I’ve had the same phone since 2002. I have 2 phones on my account but they’re not on a family plan. I have one under contract the other (mine) is not. The gal then said that my price would be $279 for an upgrade. I asked why when it says $179 on the website. I got a response that they where more subsidized for new customers than existing. I told her thanks and that I guess I would be getting the Iphone then even though I’ve had T-mobile for 6 years +. I don’t understand these companies that go after new customers but don’t try to retain the ones they already have. I guess they’ll be just like Directv when I changed over to Dish after 7 years because they wouldn’t give me a free HD receiver but any new customer could get and much more. When I called to cancel they were kissing my butt and told me they would match it and blah, blah, blah, after I had already called twice and told them what I wanted. So, they might get a few others to join but I work for my money and I’m not going to give it away out of loyalty. If I’m signing a two year contract I don’t see a difference betweem me and a new customer.

By: Jeremy Winter

Jeremy Winter — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:46:26 +0000

This is a tough one… T-Mobile would really have to give the definitive answer. What makes sense to me is seeing how T-Mobile is only giving the best deals to new customers and seeing how dropping a line from a family plan is not a breach of contract, you should be able to drop a line and sign up with a new contract. For your family plan to remain valid, you should only have to keep the bear minimum requirements in T-Mobile’s family plans.

The real question after that is figuring out how long you must keep an individual line before you can merge it with a family plan. From what I have read from the forums and past T-Mobile employees it’s 120 days of good-standing credit. Of course, once again, T-Mobile will have the definitive answers.

These contracts to be restrictive in nature, so I see no quarrel with working honestly within them to find the best deal possible. The only question I am wondering at the moment is, when will T-Mobile start trying to close these loopholes :)