some stuff

If you are an existing t-mobile customer and are planning to get a nexus one, you probably know by now that you have to pay $279 and not $179 (which is for new customers only). I just can not understand the reasoning behind this. Anyway, since my contract has expired, I thought I can just get on a new plan with a new account if required and get the phone for $179. Guess what, you can’t even do that. After researching on various forums and piecing together, I got my nexus one for just 20 bucks more instead of shelling out 100 bucks!

So, what I did was, I called  tmobile and told them I want to cancel the account and go to another network for 3 months and come back as a new customer. That way I save 100 bucks. I was ok waiting for 3 months to get my hands on that phone. I am excited about that phone but not THAT desperate. It is after all just a phone. But guess what, tmobile was like, it anyway costs 35 bucks or so to activate when I come back as a new customer, so they agreed to give me $45 credit. So, I really put in only 20 bucks more and got the phone! Isn’t that cool? Let’s see when google will ship it to me.

If you are an existing customer, try that and see if it works for you as well or if there is any other workaround, I will be curious to know! Well, not really, I already got mine

Cheers,
Mahesh Murthy!