I was thinking about upgrading my T-Mobile/HTC Shadow phone to the new G1 that runs Google's Android operating system. Before it came out they offered existing customers a pretty good deal on it, but last weekend I looked and they now want $350 dollars ($400 without a 2 year extension). Pretty expensive, but still "special pricing that's just for T-Mobile customers."
To see just how special the pricing was, I checked the page for new customers: $180 (with a 2 year contract), about half the price.
Now I can understand why they are doing this. They have this phone that lots of people would like to try, and see it as a way to bring in new customers. When my current plan expires next year though, I expect that I will be looking around for what's new, rather than a happy T-Mobile G1 user like I should be.
--Th
You can solve this problem by getting an iPhone... then you can look around all you want at the end of your 2 year contract... and still only see AT&T (the exclusive network until 2012). The NEW AT&T... even worse than the OLD AT&T.
Bring on open networks... and devices worth using on them.
Posted by: Stu | February 06, 2009 at 18:29
This is true. they suck you in with a 2 year contract, in which time many more brilliant phones come out that you cant get!
Posted by: Jenny Carmicheal | June 29, 2009 at 05:50