We’ll keep this short and sweet. Google launched the Nexus One phone today. Here’s my review. We have one that we’re going to give away to a TechCrunch reader. You can buy one here for $529 (or $179 with a two year T-Mobile contract).
Or you can get this one from us for free. Here’s how you can get the device. Just do one of two things: either retweet this post, and make sure to include the #techcrunch hashtag, or leave a comment below telling us why this device must be yours. The contest ends at noon California time tomorrow (Wednesday). Please only tweet the message once, anyone tweeting repeatedly will be disqualified. We’ll randomly select a winner tomorrow afternoon and contact you for more details.
This is a fully unlocked GSM phone that will work almost anywhere in the world, although full 3G support will only work in the U.S., Hong Kong, U.K. and Singapore. You’ll have to supply your own SIM card. Anyone is elegible to win, and we’ll pay the shipping. Just comment below or send out that tweet. Let us know your shirt size and we’ll also send you a TechCrunch tshirt.
Update: We have a winner.
i need this device, because its not available in my country :’(
I’m a developer who wants to assess whether or not Android is a platform I want to work on. I’ve been waiting to play with the Google phone to make this decision. I need this device!
Where are you located?
Also, I need one so my relatives stop asking me to buy them used iPhones off Craigslist.
Thanks Mike!
Pakistan.
So I guess we’ll be a few with this:
I won’t come to my country in years, please I can really make great use of it!
Same here, sadly it’s not available in France yet !
Good luck to all the participants
I need this phone because its the best android phone to date.
need one because my twin brother has an iphone and i still have a pearl…
Because the iPhone can’t navigate!
Count me in for a Nexus One baby!
Same here, they forgot Poland. ,-)
Why would I like to have one? Because it is better than Wave?
Same here, they forgot Poland. ,-)
Why would I like to have one? Because it is better a better product than Wave?
I need this because rogers will never get it. Canada will never get the proper updates. I’m not mad just tired of it lol
I want and need it!!
I’ve been needing an excuse to give Android development a try…
It’s open source and sexy – I must have it.
Because I responded first.
time to switch from my iphone….
this One must be mine because i’m yet to experience the whole Droid-filled world i live in.
this is the best phone available today.
It must be mine because I want “multi-tasking”
Either you give it to me or I will go buy it myself. Your call.
this guy should get it
First post.
And thats why i should get this phone.
Ouch, public FAIL on the “first comment” try.
I want a Nexus One because…it’s a really nice phone?
Love the hardware on this phone. Wish this is what the MyTouch3G was. Hope I get my mitts on it! THX!
This is the best phone i’ve ever seen in my life. That’s why it should be mine lol. It is just way better than the iphone which i was thinking of getting one, but now that i’ve seen this. Im drooling and i want it bad. Could you at least tell me if you know when is it coming to my country? (Mexico)
This device must be mine because going through 2010 without it would be an injustice
NexusOne Haiku:
Google Android Phone, Potential iPhone Killer, Needs a TechCrunch App
Because I bought and iphone and want to switch to Verizon.
I deserve the Nexus one cos I live in Norway, and this would be the envy of all my friends and coworkers cos Nexus One will probably not be here untill next year… As well as the fact that I check out techcrunch once a day.
I need one from you guys to escape from my Windows based phone, because paying over $500 for a phone doesn’t sound fun, and because I refuse to go back to TMobile to pay only $180.
I need a Nexus One because I am a hopeless Apple fan boy who needs to be shown a thing or two.
just because i hate att and this will help get off the contract.
I would love to get one. Would be great for all around use as well as testing apps during development.
I need this to reward my first ever comment on TC after years of reading.
I need it because I am an opinion maker with my friends and would help google sell more:)
I want this device because I am awesome
It is a sexy phone and I need it but have too long left in my contract to get it now!
Followed the video Livestream of the conference, and need this one badly because it aint available in my country although we use the same frequencies then the UK!
Because my cracked-screen iPhone is hanging on by a thread…
my iphone has dropped almost every other call in NYC.
This thing MUST be mine. I paid for the Droid on Launch day, and the gadget lusty nerd in me is already telling me to sell it for this.
I’ll pay for two service plans if I get this thing, I swear!
My friend and I are working on some fun iphone apps and I want to port them to android. I’ll need an android phone to do it though. The apps we make are fun crowdsourced apps with no ads or money exchanged, so a free phone would definitely help us start porting sooner than later