Best deal for Nexus 1

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Hi,
What is the best deal we can get the N1 for now?
Saw it at 20north for 31K+1500 (duty). Just wondering if there any cheaper options on this?

TIA
 
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^ are you sure that HTC is going to stop manufacturing it? I got the sense that basically Google won't be selling it online anymore, and rather it will be available through service providers like AT&T/T-mobile (US) and Vodafone (UK), probably with service plans etc.
 
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From what I've read, the N1 will not be available from retail shops without contract anymore. Some service providers will still offer it, and if you are a registered Android developer, you can apply for one online as well.
 
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vebk said:
^ are you sure that HTC is going to stop manufacturing it? I got the sense that basically Google won't be selling it online anymore, and rather it will be available through service providers like AT&T/T-mobile (US) and Vodafone (UK), probably with service plans etc.
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IMHO I think that Google mentioned something about wanting to get out of the handset manufacturing and sales and hence have decided to end selling it themselves. And wherever they may have already had contracts for sale through service providers they are still keeping sticking to those.

However I think it signals the end of the N1 as a device itself, i.e. Goog may no longer be working on getting updates for the N1 (after warranty now so maybe a year or two) and rather only concentrate of providing Android to the handset manufacturers to port, test etc.
 
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^^ Sorry but that is not going to happen. It is their development platform just like G1 was back in its day.

You got to wrap your head around the concept of Google branded phone. They are not like any other phone company. Selling phone is not even their primary goal. They develop the platform, so you are rest assured that you are covered until the hardware really starts to show its age.

Gingerbread is basically being developed on this.
 
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Shripad said:
Having owned both phones, here are key difference between Desire and Nexus one.

1. Desire has FM radio out of box. Devs are trying to patch it on Nexus one, but its not fully working yet.
2. Desire has Hardware buttons which I prefer over touch sensitive buttons on nexus one.
3. Desire has optical trackpad and push button. Nexus one has track ball in its place. Optical will get some time getting used to.
4. HTC has fiddled with the Desire somewhere. It has louder and much punchy audio output from headphone jack compared to nexus one which is little flat and little weaker than Desire.
5. Desire has louder speaker.

The advantage of Desire is that it shares hardware with google and it comes from HTC.
So its double advantage.

You get beautiful Sense UI, and you get all updates that Nexus one receives from google ported onto Desire in no time. And btw, Official HTC Froyo rom is in the wild now and you can have Froyo vanilla, or Froyo With Sense on Desire now ;)

On the other Hand Nexus One also got Sense UI patched onto it now.

It finally boils down to which design you prefer.
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i would still prefer Nexus one
 
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Saw a few videos of the N1 and Desire side by side on youtube and gotta say that the Desire seems a little bit snappier than the N1 from those.

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Yup as I mentioned I do think the N1 will be supported for another 2 years at least (which should be more that enough IMO i.e. maybe 3-4 official version releases at least I guess?).

But I do think they will not limit themselves to using this phone as dev platform for too long more (maybe a year more at max?) and be designing/looking towards better phones (or tablets) from now.

Of course just talking through my hat (but looks like a reasonable assumption).
 
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