The Motorola Droid that I got from Google I/O came with 30 days of free service. That was supposed to end on May 24th, but I'm still getting 3G service and ability to call/receive calls. Anyone other Google I/O attendees wanna check their phone and see if they have service too? I'm not sure if they're charging me for the usage or not. I would've thought the phone would just not pick up any 3G signals after the 24th.
For an event on the 19th, why would thirty days of service end five days later? I would think you had until June 19th?
Yeah, when I watched it on Youtube they said they were just "making the EVO available to all conference-goers". I mean, the Droid already is worth more than the $400 that the conference is worth. Throwing in an EVO would be ridiculous!
I totally would if I could get some kind of confirmation that they wouldn't charge me a boatload! $500 general admission, $100 academia. I'm a student so I got in cheap Gave it out for free. Haha I know when I heard it I wasn't sure if I was supposed to be really happy since he didn't say off the bat that it would be free.
Wow, that's excellent! How much is Google losing on each person!? I'm a student too, so I'd be eligible. I'd love to sign up to go next year, but I'm not a developer and I would feel selfish taking the seat at I/O and all those goodies from the actual devs. Supposedly it's very limited seating, right?
^ Ha! Google can't be losing anything. That is, if you think about the conference's long term effects. I don't plan on developing popular apps, but I'm still going next year. $100 is a great price for being a student. I'd still be happy even if they don't give out a phone next time.
Yea attracting a bunch of young, eager developers to your platform is well worth more than a few phones
That's definitely true. I didn't consider how great of an investment it is and that frankly, the phones are probably chump change for a huge company like Google.
