Google Nexus Rumored To Cost $530 Or $180 w/Plan

wkurzius writes "The new Google phone, the Nexus One, is rumored to cost $530 unlocked and will work on any GSM network. A subsidized version is also available for $180 and will get you a T-Mobile Even More Individual 500 Plan for 2-years with a $350 termination fee. Access to the phone is supposed to be invite only at first, with January 5th being the supposed release date."

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Re:In what way is an Android phone more limiting?

[SuperKendall]

So a Linux-based device using X that supports both Qt and GTK2 toolkits is somehow a dead-end OS?

Nokia's variant, yes. It's a dead-end branch. Linux itself will of course survive but in the future you'll be the one porting any improvements.

If and only if you root the thing.

That's only IF you want to do a handful of things that require rooting. There are a great number of applications you can write that do not require doing so.

All the applications I really need are available under the GPL already, and can be ported to the N900 with far less effort than it would take to port them to the iPhone or Android.

I can BUY the applications today on Android. And I can assure you as a full-time mobile developer that migrating applications written for the desktop is not nearly so easy as you make it seem.

The N900 is really well built and designed. It's just they are not with the future as far as where mobile OS's are going. Nokia will be switching to Android soon as well (not news, but a prediction). I'd say about a year as the market share shrinks dramatically.