Google on Friday confirmed that it had ditched upgrade pricing for its Nexus One smartphone and will issue $100 refunds to those T-Mobile customers who paid more.
Customers have the option to purchase a Nexus One with a two-year T-Mobile contract for $279 or without a contract for $529. Existing T-Mobile customers who opted to upgrade to a Nexus One, however, were originally charged $379 to make the change.

“We worked with T-Mobile and are now able to offer the higher upgrade discount to all existing fully eligible T-Mobile subscribers,” Google said in a statement. “This price is now $279. Refunds will be granted to all eligible subscribers who previously purchased the Nexus One at $379. This doesn’t affect any eligible customers who bought the phone for $279.”

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Today, some Twitpics shared by one user show those. As a bonus, he also shows off a bit of its HTC-innards.

The Nexus One is expected to be released early next year sold both unlocked from Google and in partnership with at least one major carrier.

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It looks like one of the members at XDA has his hands on the Google Nexus One and you know what that means… T-R-O-U-B-L-E. And that spells awesome if you’re an Android fan. One of the coolest cosmetic things to come out of it is the video that plays when you turn your Nexus One on:

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the Google Nexus One will be sold by Google online directly. But that’s also the “first retail channel” and it will be sold by a carrier/s. Apparently the Wall Street Journal is running a story tomorrow saying what we just told you. And heck, we don’t charge subscription fees…

UPDATE: So, we’re hearing Best Buy should sell this as well when it launches.

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Apparently, Googlers aren’t supposed to be tweeting the details of the Google Phone, but they have no problem tweeting about how awesome it is. And they also apparently have no problem showing it off. And not surprisingly, pictures of the device are starting to hit the web. Without further ado, this is it.

Source: TechCrunch

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