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

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

    -- Roy Batty

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  2. 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.