The line at Best Buy to purchase Nexus S

hitekalex · Dec 16, 2010

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Bmerz · Dec 16, 2010

LOL!!! Too funny! Well, in a way it's kind of sad - as Google should have put more into advertising. It wasn't even in my Sunday paper/Best Buy ad (this past Sunday). Oh well, it's still a better launch (marketing wise) than the N1 was.

RussoSerb · Dec 16, 2010

No line. Only three of us waiting. 35 Nexus S were in stock with another 75 due to arrive tormorrow. This is at the Rockingham Mall in Salem, NH.

metric152 · Dec 16, 2010

There might have been five people at the best buy in lynnwood, wa.

spongebobnopants · Dec 16, 2010

Nexus S = 2nd phone fail. Interesting that all the online reviews were good.

lornaevo · Dec 16, 2010

They should have let HTC do the nexus 2.

hitekalex · Dec 16, 2010

lornaevo said:
They should have let HTC do the nexus 2.

Probably wouldn't have made all that much difference..

But I actually think Nexus One had the best build quality of any Android phone I've touched.. Nice solid casing, with none of that cheap shiny plastic of Nexus S.

Android XTC · Dec 16, 2010

I called my Best Buy mobile store and asked her if any were left after the stampede this morning and she just laughed and said Noooo we have a ton of them in stock!

chrlswltrs · Dec 16, 2010

metric152 said:
There might have been five people at the best buy in lynnwood, wa.

I hate that store, I will never go there again especially for mobile. I was at marysville bestbuy and I was the only one there. When I left with my 2 S's at 830 there still wasn't anyone else, lol.

fillyo · Dec 16, 2010

There's a reason why, it's on T mobile, the Hyundai of cell phone carriers!

datnicakid · Dec 16, 2010

i agree htc should've have done it but remember that Android has many other phones and have no reason too waste so much money on advertising just this phone. Google again failed in advertising but the phone is sweet i bought it and like it so far

Netconn · Dec 16, 2010

If T-Mobile is the Hyundai of carriers, I would think that AT&T must be the Yugo of carriers. The new consumer reports T-Mobile and Verizon No 1.. And, of course, AT&T last..

quantumrand · Dec 16, 2010

I was 7th in line...The person in front of me bought the last two

It was ridiculous. My Best Buy apparently only had 10 in stock. Also, none of the employees have any idea when the next shipment will come in.

Netconn · Dec 16, 2010

All the Best Buy stores have sold them out in my area. I have one on hold I'm going to go get right now.

BiGMERF · Dec 16, 2010

I was at BB mobile at 9 when they opened me and about 25 others.. onky 15 of us got the phone though, the rest had to get it shipped

BiGMERF · Dec 16, 2010

fillyo said:
There's a reason why, it's on T mobile, the Hyundai of cell phone carriers!

you do realize that Hyundai makes one hell of a car now, right? Bad compariosn

chrlswltrs · Dec 16, 2010

quantumrand said:
I was 7th in line...The person in front of me bought the last two

It was ridiculous. My Best Buy apparently only had 10 in stock. Also, none of the employees have any idea when the next shipment will come in.

Netconn said:
All the Best Buy stores have sold them out in my area. I have one on hold I'm going to go get right now.

BiGMERF said:
I was at BB mobile at 9 when they opened me and about 25 others.. onky 15 of us got the phone though, the rest had to get it shipped

My BestBuy was still empty after I bought my 2, and they had 34 in stock. Anyone near Marysville, WA that didn't get one, they probably didn't sell out there.

Member110111 · Dec 16, 2010

If it were available on Verizon I would have been in line.

kcs7272 · Dec 16, 2010

Got to my Best Buy 2 hours early. Nobody else even came.
Ended up going back to get another. Sold on Ebay for $900 lol! People kill me

Howie · Dec 16, 2010

I went to the main Best Buy for my area and they only had 4 in stock. They were only selling those 4 to anyone at full retail price. Those on new activation or upgrades had to get it shipped. Didn't understand that.

bella92108 · Dec 16, 2010

Netconn said:
If T-Mobile is the Hyundai of carriers, I would think that AT&T must be the Yugo of carriers. The new consumer reports T-Mobile and Verizon No 1.. And, of course, AT&T last..

It's well known Consumer Reports is a MARKETING AGENCY and it goes to the highest bidder. I worked for T-Mobile back when CZJ worked for us, and we paid a LOT of Money for Consumer Reports and JD Power marketing.

bella92108 · Dec 16, 2010

As a side note, the best buy by me had not sold one at noon (San Francisco)... they had reps from google in-store doing demos, but nobody buying. As others have said... two issues, it's a Galaxy S, nothing new, and it's T-Mobile, nothing spectacular.

Next phone please. Comon, make SOMETHING to beat my iPhone so i can get a new phone, hehe.

The odd thing is every android manufacturer has the same 4 buttons on the bottom of the screen, and the Nexus S decided to follow suit, but change the order of the buttons. Not much propriety there for an android platform

kcs7272 · Dec 16, 2010

AHHHH I get the other posts Nothing is as good as the iphone.. LOL I had the original iphone before it was ever subsidized and the 3g. Never looked back from Android! I will say I love WebOS though.

Does Apple put a neuron implant in their products that takes over the buyer? Or is it that the OS is so simple that a baboon could use it? (which isn't bad for marketing truthfully)

bella92108 · Dec 16, 2010

kcs7272 said:
AHHHH I get the other posts Nothing is as good as the iphone.. LOL I had the original iphone before it was ever subsidized and the 3g. Never looked back from Android! I will say I love WebOS though.

Does Apple put a neuron implant in their products that takes over the buyer? Or is it that the OS is so simple that a baboon could use it? (which isn't bad for marketing truthfully)

Last I checked a disorganized OS isn't a selling feature.

Apple's whole mode of operation is simple, sleek, intuitive. Try a MAC, even those who have never used them can sit down and figure it out. Try figuring out how to change system fonts on a Windows Vista PC, lol.

Anyhow, clearly the Nexus S is not an iPhone, nor does it have the popularity of an iPhone. Not sure why you defend it.

Maybe Samsung\HTC should put a neuron implant in them, and then people will actually want to buy them. You can argue till you're blue in the face that Android is better, but clearly iOS wins in the minds of consumers, at least today.

ace5 · Dec 16, 2010

very good

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