Motorola Cliq Available to New T-Mobile Customers for $9.99
Available Through WireFly
The Motorola Cliq was $199 when it debuted a few short months ago, but right now you can get the Motorola Cliq for just $9.99 shipped with a new 2-year T-Mobile contract through WireFly. You’re limited to the titanium Cliq and you’ll be charged a $35 activation. If you’re an existing T-Mobile customer you’re out of luck, you’ll be parting with $149.99 of your hard earned cash.
However, if you’ve been thinking of jumping to T-Mobile and were eyeing an Android device now may be the time to take that leap, $140.00 is a pretty major savings.
The Cliq runs Android OS 1.5, but here’s good news: rumor has it Motorola will offer an upgrade to Android 2.0.
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Existing T-Mobile Customers Can Get the Nexus One for $179, Is It Worth The Risk?
Gizmodo reported earlier this week that existing T-Mobile customers can score the Nexus One for the subsidized price of $179 with some trickery. According to them, one of their sources managed to obtain the Nexus One for $179 by working the system. Here’s what you risk if you didn’t read the fine print when you ordered your Nexus One:
“You agree to pay Google an equipment subsidy recovery fee (the “Equipment Recovery Fee”) equal to the difference between the full price of the Nexus handheld device without service plan and the price you paid for the Nexus handheld device if you cancel your wireless plan prior to 120 days of continuous wireless service. For example, if the full price of the Nexus handheld device without service plan was $529 USD and the price you paid for the Nexus handheld device was $179 USD with a service plan, the Equipment Recovery Fee you pay will be $350 USD in the event you cancel within the first 120 days of carrier service.”
“You agree that the Equipment Recovery Fee is not a penalty but is for liquidated damages Google will incur as a result of such cancellation. These damages may include, but are not limited to, loss of compensation and administrative costs associated with such cancellation or changing of wireless service provider(s), market changes, and changes in ownership. Please note that the Equipment Recovery Fee is imposed by Google and not your chosen carrier and is in addition to any early termination fees that may be charged by your chosen carrier in connection with termination of your wireless plan prior to fulfillment of your chosen carrier’s service agreement term.”
Here’s what the Gizmodo source did:
Starting the day of the release I attempted to secure a shiny new toy to replace my aging iPhone only to find out that Google/HTC/T-Mobile were hamstringing existing customers for anywhere from $100 – $200 on the cost of the phone, so I set out to get a fair price. I spoke with a long list of Customer Care/Billing/Tech Support/& Loyalty Specialists to work through the problem. A Tech Support agent along with help from Billing agents suggested that I add a line to my existing account, then swap the created phone number with the original after a cancellation and reuse request. This became difficult as someone on their end flagged my account wrong. I spent the better part of the next 36 hours asking if some flag had been activated on my account indicating I was no longer an Individual Regular Postpaid account. Only after threatening to cancel my account altogether did someone figure it out. Flag changed, I was now able to proceed. Added the line (865 area code), ordered the phone and waited for that to arrive. Once that was achieved, I called T-Mobile back to cancel my original line (not on contract – no fee) and file a reuse of the number. Then came the waiting game. This morning I awoke to a text message from T-Mobile stating that the number registered for the sim card was my original number (412 area code). To sum it up in steps:
Requirements: Non-contract T-Mobile Customer, ability to add a line
1. Add a line through Google check out process.
2. Wait for phone arrival.
3. Once acquired, call T-Mobile to cancel original number, then file a reuse request to swap it with the newly created number (similar to a number port)
4. Wait. (12 hrs elapsed time prior to the swap).All said and done, Nexus One acquired for $179+taxes+$35 activation fee. One last caveat; by the end of the process, T-Mobile Specialists were getting weary of this method so I would verify they will do this for customers before proceeding.
[source: gizmodo]
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