News - Google Phone as early as 5 Jan for as little as $99?

[shadowmaster]

24/11/2004, cant believe its been 5 years, time flies.

[Blastuk]

Earliest is a beta invite I sent with the date stamp 26 August 2005 17:29

[Nikumba]

Mine is 08/07/04 so Im good on if there is a 5 year thing, but will the phone be avalible in the UK then? Or only US to start with while its "beta"

[CampGareth]

According to Wikipedia, Gmail was only made available to the public via invitation on April 1 2004. This would mean that the $100 rebate is limited to those who got a Gmail account within 8 months of the service being released which IMO is unreasonable. For Google it makes perfect sense of course as they get to quote $99 while that price is only true for a minority of people generating plenty of hype, but if they just wanted to spread Android among the population then a more sensible account age is roughly 3 years, when Gmail came out of the invite only phase.

[sleepyhead]

Well according to a rumour on another site...

$530 unlocked.
$180 when put on a two year contract.
$350 for early termination of the contract.

Expensive...