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Google Reduces Its Nexus One Termination Fee
CWmike writes "The only smartphone Linus Torvalds doesn't hate is that much less unlikable now that Google has quietly chopped $200 off its early termination fee on the Nexus One. Customers who cancel the service had been on the hook for $550, including a $350 Google cancellation charge. Google has reduced their fee to $150 — but users are still liable for a $200 ETF from T-Mobile. Users have a 14-day grace period during which they do not have to pay either charge, although they may be hit with a restocking fee. The $350 total fee matches one of the highest in the industry, charged by Verizon. Google did not announce the change but simply altered its online terms-of-service document." The price cut could add momentum to a phone that, by one reckoning, costs only $49 unlocked.
Parent is not a troll, Korbeau is merely stating the obvious.
The $49 price is not the real price, but the difference between doing it one way, and doing it a different way, both with HORRIBLE subscription prices by european standards.
Early termination fees are a JOKE, especially with a size like that.
This whole story reeks of someone lacking their sense of judgement or deliberately ignoring it.
Yes, teH Nexus One is a nice phone, but
A: it's not that cheap
B: it's not a jesus phone (neither was the iPhone)
C: this is neither the first or second story about it these last few days.
anyway. imo, parent is not a troll
Blah blah sig blah blah blah irony blah blah
Evil? Well with these fees maybe just a little bit evil. But seriously this is google, how much more money do they need?
Personally, I am waiting for the phone that is subsidized by non-obtrusive, relevant advertising.
There are two kinds of fool. One says, This is old, and therefore good. And one says, This is new, and therefore better.