Comments on: Nexus One Google Phone Prepares For Takeover http://phandroid.com/2009/12/14/nexus-one-google-phone-prepares-for-takeover/ Android Phone News, Rumors, Reviews, Apps, Forums & More! Mon, 04 Apr 2011 02:51:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: SprintJennifer http://phandroid.com/2009/12/14/nexus-one-google-phone-prepares-for-takeover/#comment-76822 SprintJennifer Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:37:17 +0000 http://phandroid.com/?p=9368#comment-76822 It looks like the HTC Hero, It has the Android system just like the HTC Hero.. Oh big deal, it's unlocked for GSM only, so yeah - Crappy T-mobile and WAY too expensive AT&T. (Both with terrible map coverage!) Might as well just go to Sprint and get the HTC Hero for a better plan rate and CDMA towers! Yeah it's not "Google's Phone" but it's the same android market, and a brand of cell phones that people know about already - HTC - vs Google, in which this is their first decent phone physically made by them. It looks like the HTC Hero, It has the Android system just like the HTC Hero.. Oh big deal, it’s unlocked for GSM only, so yeah – Crappy T-mobile and WAY too expensive AT&T. (Both with terrible map coverage!) Might as well just go to Sprint and get the HTC Hero for a better plan rate and CDMA towers! Yeah it’s not “Google’s Phone” but it’s the same android market, and a brand of cell phones that people know about already – HTC – vs Google, in which this is their first decent phone physically made by them.

]]> By: Bruce http://phandroid.com/2009/12/14/nexus-one-google-phone-prepares-for-takeover/#comment-73243 Bruce Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:20:47 +0000 http://phandroid.com/?p=9368#comment-73243 @Eric, wcdma is a wide-band version of cdma and is not part of gsm. @Eric, wcdma is a wide-band version of cdma and is not part of gsm.

]]> By: Tusahr http://phandroid.com/2009/12/14/nexus-one-google-phone-prepares-for-takeover/#comment-72045 Tusahr Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:42:39 +0000 http://phandroid.com/?p=9368#comment-72045 Im just really fed up with AT&t everyone says omg they have good service and great phones...if this is true SHOW ME!!! none of this good stuff is visible with me i literally screamed when i saw the HD 2 and researched the hell out of it...now this phone comes out and its like the next great thing till an ipod and i want it and only if it comes to AT&T, im fed up with the low quality touch screen phones they have....the best being HTC Pure and Tilt 2 the Fuze was just an out ride fail and the Iphone is over played...so really what AT&t needs to do is spark up its variety with Android and get a better network and that throws us into the 4G debate Im just really fed up with AT&t everyone says omg they have good service and great phones…if this is true SHOW ME!!! none of this good stuff is visible with me i literally screamed when i saw the HD 2 and researched the hell out of it…now this phone comes out and its like the next great thing till an ipod and i want it and only if it comes to AT&T, im fed up with the low quality touch screen phones they have….the best being HTC Pure and Tilt 2 the Fuze was just an out ride fail and the Iphone is over played…so really what AT&t needs to do is spark up its variety with Android and get a better network and that throws us into the 4G debate

]]> By: NANANA http://phandroid.com/2009/12/14/nexus-one-google-phone-prepares-for-takeover/#comment-72031 NANANA Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:04:56 +0000 http://phandroid.com/?p=9368#comment-72031 @sam You sir are a moron 200 million a day.. Its estimated at around 100-150 million in advertising total not a day dip shit. Sprint is the 3rd largest provider in the US with right under 50 million, and T-Mo is better with 33 million and bleeding subs just like sprint. Att is so great they are contacting I phone users asking them to slow down on the data usages because their network is failing. Learn the facts before posting stupid verizon fan boy BS. @sam

You sir are a moron 200 million a day.. Its estimated at around 100-150 million in advertising total not a day dip shit.

Sprint is the 3rd largest provider in the US with right under 50 million, and T-Mo is better with 33 million and bleeding subs just like sprint. Att is so great they are contacting I phone users asking them to slow down on the data usages because their network is failing. Learn the facts before posting stupid verizon fan boy BS.

]]> By: Sam http://phandroid.com/2009/12/14/nexus-one-google-phone-prepares-for-takeover/#comment-70489 Sam Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:12:34 +0000 http://phandroid.com/?p=9368#comment-70489 For the people that are wondering why Google didn't go to Sprint with this, well Sprint right now is in the bottom of the totem pole in the Wireless Industry. They are no competition for anyone, it's T-mobile, AT&T and Verizon competing (AT&T and Verizon being #1). Sprint has the highest churn rate (customers who cancel their service to go with another carrier), and they have also lost 17% of their customers in the last year. It would be a bad and desperate business move for Google to go to Sprint. Why go to Verizon, well Verizon has over 89 million customers (#1 wireless carrier in the U.S), has the most money (which in return can promote,advertise a product the best). Verizon Wireless spent $200,000,000 a day advertising JUST the Motorola Droid. Which brings up why Verizon rejected the Google phone, there is no way they are going to take spotlight of the Motorola Droid and cut their profits short, and they simply did not like the way the Nexus operated on CDMA, it needed lots of tweaks. For the people that are wondering why Google didn’t go to Sprint with this, well Sprint right now is in the bottom of the totem pole in the Wireless Industry. They are no competition for anyone, it’s T-mobile, AT&T and Verizon competing (AT&T and Verizon being #1). Sprint has the highest churn rate (customers who cancel their service to go with another carrier), and they have also lost 17% of their customers in the last year. It would be a bad and desperate business move for Google to go to Sprint.
Why go to Verizon, well Verizon has over 89 million customers (#1 wireless carrier in the U.S), has the most money (which in return can promote,advertise a product the best). verizonwireless.com spent $200,000,000 a day advertising JUST the Motorola Droid. Which brings up why Verizon rejected the Google phone, there is no way they are going to take spotlight of the Motorola Droid and cut their profits short, and they simply did not like the way the Nexus operated on CDMA, it needed lots of tweaks.

]]> By: Be. http://phandroid.com/2009/12/14/nexus-one-google-phone-prepares-for-takeover/#comment-69318 Be. Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:13:38 +0000 http://phandroid.com/?p=9368#comment-69318 mulda71 what would make you think that? People are amazing. mulda71

what would make you think that?

People are amazing.

]]> By: mulda71 http://phandroid.com/2009/12/14/nexus-one-google-phone-prepares-for-takeover/#comment-68945 mulda71 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:28:26 +0000 http://phandroid.com/?p=9368#comment-68945 i think this same phone is going to come out on VZ, but with HTC branding and Sense UI. And if that is the case, I suppose VZ looks at this (unbranded with stock android) as no better than the droid/too similar... but I dont know anything, so, whatever... i think this same phone is going to come out on VZ, but with HTC branding and Sense UI. And if that is the case, I suppose VZ looks at this (unbranded with stock android) as no better than the droid/too similar… but I dont know anything, so, whatever…

]]> By: T-Mobile Customer http://phandroid.com/2009/12/14/nexus-one-google-phone-prepares-for-takeover/#comment-68913 T-Mobile Customer Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:41:03 +0000 http://phandroid.com/?p=9368#comment-68913 When google backs something up it makes it legit. Google has a very good reputation so anything they put their name on makes it amazing, even if they didn't actually do anything; that's the position they're in. Sure other phones are great, but this one should be guaranteed genius, lol When google backs something up it makes it legit. Google has a very good reputation so anything they put their name on makes it amazing, even if they didn’t actually do anything; that’s the position they’re in. Sure other phones are great, but this one should be guaranteed genius, lol

]]> By: Eric http://phandroid.com/2009/12/14/nexus-one-google-phone-prepares-for-takeover/#comment-68909 Eric Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:21:45 +0000 http://phandroid.com/?p=9368#comment-68909 @Candace WCDMA is part of GSM standard... have nothing related to CDMA.... @Candace

WCDMA is part of GSM standard… have nothing related to CDMA….

]]> By: Will.I.Am82 http://phandroid.com/2009/12/14/nexus-one-google-phone-prepares-for-takeover/#comment-68891 Will.I.Am82 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:58:22 +0000 http://phandroid.com/?p=9368#comment-68891 This isn't anything more than what Google's already pretty much summed up: it's merely an HTC touchscreen mobilephone that people within Google are testing new software on. This isn’t anything more than what Google’s already pretty much summed up: it’s merely an HTC touchscreen mobilephone that people within Google are testing new software on.

]]> By: Mark Sigal http://phandroid.com/2009/12/14/nexus-one-google-phone-prepares-for-takeover/#comment-68794 Mark Sigal Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:19:08 +0000 http://phandroid.com/?p=9368#comment-68794 The timing of all of this is curious, though. Droid just launched, and both Verizon and Motorola have made a pretty significant bet on Android. To have the Google phone drop smack in the middle of Christmas buying season, certainly risks customers holding off on Droid, and waiting to see what Google will come out with for Verizon. Needless to say, the risk of that scenario playing out can't make either Verizon or Motorola too happy right now. More to the point, when you position yourself as a platform for handset makers and carriers, and then turn tail and compete with them so early in the ecosystem seeding process, that has to be a wake up call that maybe the enemy of my enemy (Apple) is not my friend after all. The reasoning that Google may feel that they need to put destiny into their own hands RIGHT NOW is something that I blogged about in: Android’s ‘Inevitability’ and the Missing Leg http://bit.ly/87URNI Check it out, if interested. Mark The timing of all of this is curious, though. Droid just launched, and both Verizon and Motorola have made a pretty significant bet on Android.

To have the Google phone drop smack in the middle of Christmas buying season, certainly risks customers holding off on Droid, and waiting to see what Google will come out with for Verizon. Needless to say, the risk of that scenario playing out can’t make either Verizon or Motorola too happy right now.

More to the point, when you position yourself as a platform for handset makers and carriers, and then turn tail and compete with them so early in the ecosystem seeding process, that has to be a wake up call that maybe the enemy of my enemy (Apple) is not my friend after all.

The reasoning that Google may feel that they need to put destiny into their own hands RIGHT NOW is something that I blogged about in:

Android’s ‘Inevitability’ and the Missing Leg
http://bit.ly/87URNI

Check it out, if interested.

Mark

]]> By: just some dude http://phandroid.com/2009/12/14/nexus-one-google-phone-prepares-for-takeover/#comment-68782 just some dude Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:54:02 +0000 http://phandroid.com/?p=9368#comment-68782 ha ha , the per month rate is an installment plan till you pay off the phone,its to help customers who dont want a contract to pay off the phone in time. i applaud tmo for that. you can opt to pay like that or be on a contract. someone has led you a stray my friend. ha ha , the per month rate is an installment plan till you pay off the phone,its to help customers who dont want a contract to pay off the phone in time. i applaud tmo for that. you can opt to pay like that or be on a contract. someone has led you a stray my friend.

]]> By: NQ Logic http://phandroid.com/2009/12/14/nexus-one-google-phone-prepares-for-takeover/#comment-68774 NQ Logic Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:44:25 +0000 http://phandroid.com/?p=9368#comment-68774 Google is moving down in the stack to challenge B2C opponents with an open architecture and new sets of standards. In creating a post-revenue business model, Google can only manage success if consumers accept a co-branding and outsourced manufactured device ... NQ Logic recommends reading about the rest of the new Google's mobile strategy at www.nqlogic.com Google is moving down in the stack to challenge B2C opponents with an open architecture and new sets of standards. In creating a post-revenue business model, Google can only manage success if consumers accept a co-branding and outsourced manufactured device … NQ Logic recommends reading about the rest of the new Google’s mobile strategy at http://www.nqlogic.com

]]> By: Chris http://phandroid.com/2009/12/14/nexus-one-google-phone-prepares-for-takeover/#comment-68696 Chris Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:06:19 +0000 http://phandroid.com/?p=9368#comment-68696 I agree with the other comments. Why doesn't Sprint get a version? If Google is "keen to change the way mobile devices are sold in the U.S. especially", then why are the following the status quo of exclusivity sans subsidization?! I'll be so disappointed if it is only released on T-Mobile and AT&T. This is exactly the phone model (HTC Dragon/Bravo/Passion) that I was most interested in dropping cash for a new device. Guess I'll hold off now and stick with this piece of junk WinMo device and reevaluate the iPhone. I agree with the other comments. Why doesn’t Sprint get a version? If Google is “keen to change the way mobile devices are sold in the U.S. especially”, then why are the following the status quo of exclusivity sans subsidization?!

I’ll be so disappointed if it is only released on T-Mobile and AT&T. This is exactly the phone model (HTC Dragon/Bravo/Passion) that I was most interested in dropping cash for a new device. Guess I’ll hold off now and stick with this piece of junk WinMo device and reevaluate the iPhone.

]]> By: Pieter http://phandroid.com/2009/12/14/nexus-one-google-phone-prepares-for-takeover/#comment-68673 Pieter Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:29:17 +0000 http://phandroid.com/?p=9368#comment-68673 @tke yea you're right, it's just another htc phone with google. and they're just using "GOOGLE" to hype it up. but instead of criticizing the hype, you should embrace it! - the more hype we have, the more phones will sell. the more phones sold, the more interest is gained from other manufacturers/developers. hence, more quality android phones/apps are produced. us android fans need to help build the hype (even if we know it is just a "marketing ploy"), in order to perpetuate the constant improvement of android. @tke
yea you’re right, it’s just another htc phone with google. and they’re just using “GOOGLE” to hype it up. but instead of criticizing the hype, you should embrace it!
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the more hype we have, the more phones will sell. the more phones sold, the more interest is gained from other manufacturers/developers. hence, more quality android phones/apps are produced. us android fans need to help build the hype (even if we know it is just a “marketing ploy”), in order to perpetuate the constant improvement of android.

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