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Google Reduces Its Nexus One Termination Fee

Posted by kdawson on from the get-out-for-less dept.

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.

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  1. Slashvertisement at its best by Korbeau · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Linking to an article mentioning Linus and an older advertisement, with a tiny bit of new information (a 200$ cut because of an about-to-be ruling by the FCC), that overall shows Google in a positive light. With clumsy maths at the end.

    Slashdot at its best!

    1. Re:Slashvertisement at its best by Xiph · · Score: 3, Interesting

      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

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  2. Nexus one eh? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nexuses are retired, not terminated.
    Just saying...

    -- Roy Batty

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  3. Get Real by honkycat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The price cut could add momentum to a phone that, by one reckoning, costs only $49 unlocked.

    And, by another reckoning, it actually saves you $5,000 and rescues your cat from a tree. Incidentally, both reckonings are fallacious.

  4. Dont be... by Johnny+Fusion · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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  5. Will you please stop the dishonest shilling? by VShael · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's one thing to have a story/advertisement, it's another to blatantly lie in it.

    The bullshit statistic of the $49 dollar unlocked version was ably debunked in the comments of the last story where this was claimed.

    Please stop doing it. When you're caught in a blatant lie, you don't repeat it unless you are also an idiot.