If you’ve been reading any of the phone forums you know one of the biggest question is where do Nexus One owners turn for support. That question was answered when HTC announced today via their Twitter account who you should contact with your questions.
For the Nexus One, rate plan related ?’s should go to your carrier. Hardware/software support, please reach out to HTC http://ow.ly/UnTI
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Current T-Mobile Customers Pay More for Nexus One
New T-Mobile customers enjoy the $179 pricing but upgrading customers might need to break open the wallet further. The cost is a little less expensive than the unlocked $530 ticket. Two year pricing for existing customers comes in at $279 or $379 depending on if you are adding or upgrading your data plan. If you can’t live without the current HOT Android phone, is price really an object??
You can choose to purchase the Nexus One from the Google Phone Webstore without service for $529 USD, or with a qualifying T-Mobile US service plan at a discounted price:
No word yet on VerizonWireless pricing, my bet is we’ll see a similar price structure if not new Nexus One plans from big red.
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Categories: Nexus One Tags: Android, Android 2.1, Google, HTC, Nexus One, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless
Starting today, PressDisplay.com subscribers can point the Web browser on their Android phone to www.PressDisplay.com and enjoy any of the more than 1,400 local, national and international titles currently available on the world’s largest online newspaper and magazine kiosk. Unlike other news aggregation sites, which provide a limited sample of free news stories from an assortment of news sources, PressDisplay.com offers full-content newspapers and magazines in an intuitive digital format that replicates the printed edition.
PressDisplay.com has also been optimized for Android, making it extremely easy to browse and read entire publications, including all images, cartoons, puzzles, and even advertisements. Navigational controls and gestures such as tables of contents with sections, zoom and pan, and page scrolling are supported. Other advanced features include full graphics and text views, auto-jumps that link articles spanning different pages, cross-title search, article sharing, commenting, text-to-speech, and access to back issues.
In order to read what’s beyond the first page or customize your news, you’ll need to sign up for one of their membership plans. If you’re a registered user on their Pay As You Go Plan you’ll have free access to two articles from the current issue of each publication, after that you’ll be paying $0.99 per credit which entitles you to one additional article.
Click image to view membership tiers and fees
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Categories: News Tags: Android, Full-Content Newspapers, Magazines, News, PressDisplay.com
AT&T surprised us all today at CES by basically announcing a huge overhaul of its smartphone and mid-range phone offerings. The new line-up will position AT&T nicely for moving beyond Apple’s iPhone—which has been one of its only cutting edge smartphone offerings to date.
In the next six months, it will release five new Android devices from Motorola, Dell and HTC and two running Palm’s WebOS. As part of that, AT&T is beefing up its applications offerings by creating new partnerships with Google’s Android Market and Palm’s OS app store.
The five Android devices will be coming from Motorola (an exclusive device based on its Blur technology), Dell (which is releasing its first phone on the platform), and HTC (no details were offered). HTC’s CEO Peter Chou:
“AT&T and HTC has had a close and productive relationship for the past five years, and we are pleased to expand it even further by announcing new Android products to AT&T customers. AT&T has been very focused on innovation, and we have a lead Android development.”
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Oops!
Google’s “Android” and “Nexus One” sound like great product names, but were they stolen from the late author Philip Dick’s novel that resulted in the hit film, Blade Runner?
That is the allegation being brought by Dick’s estate, which says that Google appropriated the names from Dick’s novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and that it will be filing a lawsuit against Google for copyright infringement.
“We feel this is a clear infringement of our intellectual-property rights,” Isa Dick Hackett, a daughter of Mr. Dick and the chief executive of Electric Shepherd Productions, told the Wall Street Journal.
The search giant introduced its new touch-screen handset “superphone,” Nexus One yesterday as a direct competitor to Apple’s wildly successful iPhone. It features the latest version of Google’s Android operating system.
Initial reviews of the Nexus One were mixed.
Writing in the New York Times, David Pogue stated: “…the truth is, the Google news this week isn’t quite as earthshaking as Google seems to think it is. First, the new phone. It’s almost exactly the size and shape of the iPhone…it’s bland-looking.” Pogue goes on to demonstrate all the ways the Google phone is derivative of the iPhone and other predecessors.
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Categories: Google, Nexus One Tags: Android, Apple, Blade Runner, Copyright Infringement, Google, iPhone, Nexus One, Phillip Dick
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