Google Nexus One Coming to All 4 Major US Carriers Now, Sprint Announced Today

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Sprint has gone on the record today saying that the Nexus One will also be available on their network soon. They did not give an exact date but say that they will announce an exact date soon.

They also announced that just like with the other versions, the phone will only be available for purchase from Google.com/phone. The one thing Sprint failed to mention in their press release that we are all curious about, is whether or not it will be available on a contract as well as no contract. We can guess that the no contract price will be identical across the board at $529, but people are curious if Sprint will allow a subsidized price like T-Mobile currently does ($179).

The thing that I will keep asking and do not fully understand, is why are there now 3 or 4 versions of this same phone? Why didn’t they make a CDMA/GSM version with quad band 3G and EVDO and say pick your network… Aw well, at least they are going to accomplish their goal of one phone on all networks one way or another.

Source (Sprint Press Release)

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  • Josh Armour

    Im not an expert but I assume that quad band radios would require more room correct? So the phone would be thicker then wouldn’t it?

    • Josh,

      Possible, I guess, but by how much? I was under the impression a radio receiver is VERY small.

  • Bishar

    It’s because of Google Phone! everyone likes GOOGLE

  • jerry

    Three weeks ago I was a pretty happy Sprint User with a 3 year old Treo and a very good experience. Today I am a slightly unhappy T-mo user with an awesome phone but not very good signal.

    Stupid Sprint. When the Nexus was announced for Verizon, they could have announced their intentions, or said they would happily activate Verizon Nexii on their network.

    I don’t see a real reason to go back, not yet, perhaps if the WIMAX phone is ready to be sold.

    In the meantime, I wasn’t sure why the FCC went after ETFs, but I do wish they would ask Google and Apple and HTC why they use radios that support only TMO or AT&T and not both.

  • Liam

    Jerry, you have four weeks to cancel your tmobile contract. All cell carriers must allow people four trial weeks and you can 100 percent get out of the contract with a $50 restocking fee.

  • Kay

    I can’t speak for any of the future deals, but I did buy an original nexus one on T-Mobile. Google gives you 14 days to return the phone. If you returned it between 15 days and two months then you originally paid the $350 difference in price between the non-contracted and contracted priced of the phone. This went straight to google to replace their T-Mobile kickback. You would also be responsible for T-Mobile termination. Because of FCC pressure, google reduced their fee. I can’t remember how much, off the top of my head.
    By the way, if you have the phone engraved free on order, which looks very subtle and classy, you can’t return it to google. Also, the standard repair process for HTC is to get your phone and quickly send you a different fixed one. You absolutely cannot get your engraved cover back that way. Path two is to send it to a regional service center and wait for your specific phone to be repaired.
    I don’t know if future carrier sales will work the same, though I doubt HTC’s process will change.

  • Kay

    I forgot to add that my Nexus One on a T-Mobile contract shows both T-Mobile and AT&T as available networks. My understanding was that the phone would work on any GSM network. I have no official knowledge of that, though.

    • Kay,

      All Nexus One’s are unlocked. The ones for different carriers simply have that carrier’s 3G frequencies built in (why they didn’t just make one phone with all the frequences that runs on CDMA and GSM is something I cannot understand). So the one for T-Mobile will work on any GSM carrier (including AT&T) BUT if you use an AT&T SIM you wont get 3G (since it does not have AT&T’s 3G frequency built in, and vise versa if you get the AT&T one and use it on T-Mobile).