Verizon makes pretty much all their money on plans anyway so they aren’t getting hurt any if people go to 3rd party retailers. You are still stuck with a verizon 2 year contract no matter where you buy from.

You might not be able to add an sd card to the nexus either. If it is like the nexus s(which it looks very similar) it may not have an sd card slot which I do not understand why samsung would go that route.

I actually think that as lte becomes more common the phone prices will decline. I mean look at when 3g phones first arrived they were close in price to these phones( especially off contract) Over time prices fall and I feel that once more carriers make the switch to lte, these phone prices will fall also.

Once Tuesday past all the people on here that’s saying there disapointed & will not get the phone will be sanging a whole different tune.

If the device is as awesome as predicted, $299 doesn’t seem that bad. Plus it’ll be on sale eventually anyways.

Ha 299 always paid full price cause I needed my new nexus.
Verizon exclusive suits me fine 1/2012
I have 3 renewals perhaps this time I save some money so 299 is relative to me if things line up and T-Mobile sells the nexus 3 .I get 3 on the cheap

The only two things I read in that paragraph was “overcharge” and “all carriers”. I think you should re-think your writing style.

Here’s what I’d love to see from the new Nexus & ICS:

Docks. I love my Nexus One docks, both desktop and car, and will snatch them up again. It already looks like there’s a car/media dock pin-out from that invitation email, so that bodes well.

Amazing battery life. I want them to blow us away with insane battery life. Smarter OS power management by a ton, power-sipping processor, efficient screen. I want this thing to be somewhere in the same ballpark as the iPhone.

Screen size. I don’t want it to be enormous. I know it’s going to be, and I’m basically prepared for that, but I’m not a huge fan of huge screens. More than happy with the N1′s 3.7 inch screen. Anything bigger becomes unwieldy with one hand and large in the pocket, even if it has a curve. If this thing is really 4.7… we’ll see.

Screen density. It’s time for someone to match the iPhone. I think the SuperAMOLEDs are REALLY close, but let’s see someone get this right now. Samsung can definitely do it.

Google Music. Looks like it’s going to make it in time for ICS. I want it to offer a subscription service. That would be absolutely incredible, and it would let me drop Zune/Grooveshark instantly. I’d pay $15 easily a month for a great subscription service fully integrated into my phone. if only. Instead, it looks like we’ll get somewhat lame iPhone competitor.

No dedicated search button has me a bit bothered. I actually use the long-press search button to trigger voice searches on my phone. Wondering if the soft keys will be configurable?

Hoping for a really nice camera. Guessing we’ll see a dedicated shutter button, but who knows.

Clearly, no physical keyboard. They have no place in Nexus devices. Thankfully.

Build quality. I haven’t seen a device as nicely built as the Nexus One. The soft-touch rubberish plastic and the metal accents make it a really solid device. I dropped it face-down on a hard tile floor today and it bounced the battery connector rail up a bit. I snapped it back down and it was just fine. It’s a bit chipped on the bottom, but overall, the build quality from HTC has been really impressive. Samsung seems to have this awful habit of coating everything in their ubiquitous piano black plastic.

Might we see a completely new keyboard system? Remember, Google snatched up Blind Type about a year ago… it’s high time we see it’s impressive software baked right into the stock keyboard. I’d frankly love to see them snatch up SwiftKey as well, since SwiftKey nearly gets the Blind Type concept down already, with the benefit of great prediction.

Google Drive? Now would be a great time to launch it, to counter the iCloud components of iOS5. I don’t know if we’ll see that quite yet, but I think Google would be remiss not to start baking in gDrive support into ICS.

Overall, I’m pretty excited, and the incessant storage space issue on my N1 means it’s time for an upgrade. I’ve been satisfied with the N1, and happy to see it get both Froyo and Gingerbread. I’m always going to stick with Nexus devices, and I’m hoping we see this on TMO as well.

One more day people! =)

im starting to think that the only one that will be subsidized is the Verizon one and if it does come to other carriers it will have to be a full price purchase