I bought my Droid off Amazon for $529.99, which was the best deal I could find. Activated it by phone, and I'm extremely pleased with it.
Gave my G1 dev phone to my girlfriend, who just stuck her ATT sim card in it. Works great. On Dec 4, 12:47 pm, Ryan Beesley <[email protected]> wrote: > They are selling the Droid without a > contract:http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Verizon+-+Motorola+DROID+Mobile+Phone+-+B... > > I suppose this doesn't guarantee that it will work, but I don't see how they > could be selling it without a contract if there wasn't a way to use the > device. I'm considering it just so that I'll have a WVGA device to work with. > > /Ryan > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 8:53 AM > To: Android Discuss > Subject: [android-discuss] Re: The saga continues > > If you want a phone, you have a couple of choices: > > 1. Buy a dev phone for $399 plus the developer fee of $25. > 2. Sign up for one of those expensive plans and get a phone for $199 > or whatever. > 3. Buy one off eBay and hope you get one that works for a reasonable > price. > 4. Is there another option? > > The phones sold by the telco's are subsidized by the contract. You'll > pay less up front but that $199 phone will end up costing you $2500. > You could also get a phone from a telco, sign up for the plan, keep > the thing a month and break the contract. That will run you $175 for T- > Mobile or $375 for Verizon. It's questionable if the Droid from > Verizon will work at all without a plan. Haven't heard absolutely that > it will, so I would be careful about doing that. > > -John Coryat > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
