Have you been itching to get your mittens on HTC’s Nexus One, perhaps better known as the Google Phone? Get ready, because rumors coalescing over the weekend have pegged an official launch day of January 5 at 9 AM (timezone unknown).
Here’s what you need to know:
- The phone is $530 unsubsidized.
- If you want a carrier subsidy, the phone can only be had from T-Mobile for $179.99.
- The only rate plan you can select is $79.99, and it comes with unlimited text, unlimited data, 500 anytime minutes, free nights and weekends, and unlimited calling within the T-Mobile network.
- If your contract is for a single line, you must change plans.
- Any contract that specifies multiple lines, flexible payments or other such services must buy the $530 unsubsidized handset. The $79.99 plan is for one person on one phone only.
- Existing single person, single line customers are eligible for unspecified upgrade pricing.
- All support and product exchanges will be handled directly by HTC and Google, not T-Mobile. T-Mobile is merely providing support for the pipe: Service, coverage, features and plans.
- If you cancel your plan within 120 days, and the handset was purchased on subsidy, you must pay the price difference of the unsubsidized unit, or $350.
- Google will sell the phone at google.com/phone.
The Nexus One is an HTC device built in close association with Google. The device is intended to be the new flagship Android phone, and offers the following specs:
- 512MB RAM, 512MB ROM, included 4GB microSD card, expandable to 32GB
- 5 megapixel camera with LED flash and mechanical autofocus
- 3.7? WVGA AMOLED screen (think Droid, but brighter)
- Tri-band 900/1700/2100 UMTS (T-Mobile 3G, AT&T 2G, European 3G)
- 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon (Fastest Android phone out there)
- 802.11a/b/g/n
- Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
- AGPS
- Accelerometer
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