Nexus One (Google Cell Phone): Available in Canada?
The Nexus One phone has the potential to be a major competitor to the very successful iPhone.
However, we still don't know if it will be officially available in Canada.
But that doesn't matter.
The Nexus One Google Cell Phone is Coming to Canada Anyway
The Nexus One, which is the Google Cell Phone that HTC of Taiwan is manufacturing will support the frequencies that WIND Mobile uses, as well as Rogers. Therefore, the phone will work in Canada.
Secondly, Google is testing out a direct-to-consumer selling model, just like cell phones are sold everywhere around the world: not subsidized, and not locked to a provider, but just sold unencumbered to the consumer. Buying a cell phone from your provider is like buying your car from the gas station. WHY WOULD SOMEONE DO THAT?
There are various rumours going around on just how it will be sold: Will it be sold online only by Google through Google Checkout? If so, good luck trying to directly get ahold of one as a Canadian, it will likely only accept US Shipping addresses, and Google Checkout doesn't accept Canadian users.
But if you have an Ameri-friend (and everyone has one, or knows someone that does), you'll be able to get your hands on one, and if you can't, someone on Ebay or Kijiji, or Craigslist will arrange for you to get one for a small profit.
If the devices are sold in stores like Best Buy, then you're all set, if you're willing to make the drive.
Hopefully WIND will tie-in with Google Voice. Interestingly, there is a Lacavera, from Toronto, that works in the patent office at Google, and there is a Mr. Lacavera that is the head of WIND's parent company: Globalive. Maybe just a coincidence, but maybe not.
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Feature of nexus one
Anonymous (not verified) Posted at 05:49 on Sun, 01/03/2010Hello everybody I had US Coustmer walk in my store on new years day and he was a google employe and had nexus one phone and he showed me a feature that can locate anything anywhere in world with google search voice comand and say this phone will be better seller than iPhone 3g s
Bye bye now
It wont be difficult to get
Anonymous (not verified) Posted at 11:03 on Fri, 12/18/2009It wont be difficult to get one, as you mention even if it's not sold directly in Canada thats not really a problem.
The only problem I see is that Google Voice is not available in Canada, so without it, the phone kinda loose is "raison d'être". I find that Nexus One is extremely interesting because you will not need a "voice plan". Just get a SIM card and a data plan and your good to go. That's a lot of saving per month and it gives you incredible independence. If your not happy with your current data plan, just hop to another GSM data provider and your good to go. You keep your number, all your messages, you don't have to reconfigure your phone... So i'm really crossing my fingers that Google Voice will be available in Canada in the next year.
Please Google and CRTC? :P
My personal work-around for
Voip-Cell-Admin Posted at 04:33 on Wed, 12/30/2009My personal work-around for the lack of Canadian service is to have a toll-free 1-800 number, which is a local call for anyone in Canada/USA.
Having your own DID to "abstract" yourself from you cellphone provider is a great idea. VOIP.ms does let you port your cell phone number to them, great if you have a cell phone and are moving out of your coverage area.
The chief problem with it as your personal number is that you cannot receive SMSs with it, and sent SMSs will bear your personal cell # (or your Google Voice #).
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