OK I started a new thread but here are some pics as promised. All I can say is... this device is the friggin bomb diggidy bomb......:yahoo::yahoo::yahoo:
Ok so here is how the sale came down... an awesome deal.
Originally I was going to buy the phone at Costco as they had it for the standard $179.00 with 2 year contract. One of the offers that Costco has on any of their phones and carriers is that they will wave any activation charges and take off the rebates at the counter so they are immediate, this can translate into some pretty good savings.
I also wanted to get my wife a Motorola Zine with 5MP Kodak camera but unfortunately they did not have the Motorola Zine because they are only available at the T-Mobile stores atm.
After talking with them over at Costco, I realized I could sign up for the G1 There and get the Zine at the T-Mobile store as a 2ndary line. Soooooo
I called the T-Mobile store with me and explained that I was buying the 1st phone at Costco... but I wanted to get a 2nd Zine at their store etc....
Lo and behold...
"Don't worry sir we will go ahead and match that deal for you and you can get both phones here"
So that is what I planned to do... meanwhile I researched it on the net a bit and found that if you go to Freelancers-Home and sign up as a member, you can get G1 for 139.99 and Zine for 49.00 after 100.00 rebate.
So bottom line.. the T-Mobile guys were really awesome, they ended up giving me the best of both deals and I paid as follows.
(Keeping in mind in the State of CA, they have to charge tax on the non-discounted item.)
I paid $260.00 out the door for both phones, I still get a $100.00 rebate on the Zine AND their current promo which gave us a free companion airline ticket for each phone line we set up (in this case 2) ... good until Feb 2009
Is this cool or what... setup a sequence of join the dots to secure your screen. To unlock just redraw the sequence in the correct order to access phone.
Ok so here is how the sale came down... an awesome deal.
Originally I was going to buy the phone at Costco as they had it for the standard $179.00 with 2 year contract. One of the offers that Costco has on any of their phones and carriers is that they will wave any activation charges and take off the rebates at the counter so they are immediate, this can translate into some pretty good savings.
I also wanted to get my wife a Motorola Zine with 5MP Kodak camera but unfortunately they did not have the Motorola Zine because they are only available at the T-Mobile stores atm.
After talking with them over at Costco, I realized I could sign up for the G1 There and get the Zine at the T-Mobile store as a 2ndary line. Soooooo
I called the T-Mobile store with me and explained that I was buying the 1st phone at Costco... but I wanted to get a 2nd Zine at their store etc....
Lo and behold...
"Don't worry sir we will go ahead and match that deal for you and you can get both phones here"
So that is what I planned to do... meanwhile I researched it on the net a bit and found that if you go to Freelancers-Home and sign up as a member, you can get G1 for 139.99 and Zine for 49.00 after 100.00 rebate.
So bottom line.. the T-Mobile guys were really awesome, they ended up giving me the best of both deals and I paid as follows.
(Keeping in mind in the State of CA, they have to charge tax on the non-discounted item.)
I paid $260.00 out the door for both phones, I still get a $100.00 rebate on the Zine AND their current promo which gave us a free companion airline ticket for each phone line we set up (in this case 2) ... good until Feb 2009
Is this cool or what... setup a sequence of join the dots to secure your screen. To unlock just redraw the sequence in the correct order to access phone.
... I will have to do a review as soon as I get my fingers all sticky in the gui. Have downloaded a few really cool apps already and will tell you more once I get time for a review.... soonish 
