Motorola CLIQ lands in T-Mobile USA stores today
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Asia @ Nov 2nd 2009 4:24PM
Drop the price $100 bucks and you might be able to justify this purchase.
Waine1906 @ Nov 2nd 2009 4:58PM
I agree. $199 for the Cliq; $199 for the Droid??? Nuff said. T-Mobile are you listening??
ajkl @ Nov 2nd 2009 10:13PM
last time i looked at basic data/voice plans, t-mobile's was $65/month. verizon was $105/month. I'm sticking with t-mobile as they have great service in my area and i'm liking the cliq a lot after using it for over a week.
elgee02 @ Nov 3rd 2009 1:52AM
Please, stop making stuff up.
A basic voice and data plan for the Droid will run you a whopping $5 more dollars a month at $69.98 a month. Ad $20 for unlimited texting and it's still well below that magical $105 you just pulled out of your ass.
Bill @ Nov 3rd 2009 3:48AM
Still, $5 over 24 months is $120. That makes the CLIQ $80 compared to the $200 Droid.
This is pretty basic math people: more money is more money, whether you pay it on the front or over the life of the contract. Verizon isn't cutting you a deal because they care about you, it's because you are dim enough to think that $5 a month over 2 years isn't much money. They are in it for the signature on the contract, while you are in it for the shiny new toy. Advantage Verizon.
All that said, T-Mobile needs to knock it off with the toy phones and get some kick ass hardware. coughN900cough
elgee02 @ Nov 4th 2009 2:50AM
Still, a high end 3G phone on T-Mobile is a waste unless you are fortunate enough to live where they finally got some 3G (i.e. nowhere even close to where I live which has blanketed 3G from VZW). I would gladly pay $5 extra for 15x more 3G coverage anyday.
Asia @ Nov 2nd 2009 5:12PM
And if the Passion does come to Verizon (or any US carrier) by Christmas time... there is just no hope for phones like this competing against next gen phones. A cheap price tag and the inability to switch carriers is the only way they'll sell.
haX0r @ Nov 2nd 2009 5:43PM
$149.99 at Target stores with instant MIR.
Daniel @ Nov 2nd 2009 9:07PM
Verizon seems to have mastered the bait and switch technique with the masses.
Give users a cheap smartphone out the door then stick them with the hefty monthly tariffs for 2 entire years.
Did you know that if you want to use Exchange with the Droid on Verizon, you have to pay another $15 on top of the data plan. Yep that's $45 on data alone to Big Red.
It's the MRC that Verizon uses to make up for the cheap hardware. I'd rather have the savings given to me on the monthly rates but that's just me.
Asia @ Nov 2nd 2009 9:19PM
Yeah, that's $45 to use THEIR servers. Why would you pay that when you don't have to? You can continue using Exchange with the $30 data plan and it'll be fine. The argument isn't with the carrier anyway, it's the phones being released. Why pay $199.99 for this when you can pay the same price for a better piece of hardware? The iPhone, Palm Pre, and the Droid all use next-gen processors and are the same price or cheaper than this. After the holidays we're gonna see a lot more coming around, too. The Arm-11 processors are outdated. Buy the phones if you have to, but if you can wait, I'd suggest you do so.