"International Fees" to get Nexus One delivered in front of your house
Dear customer, I bet you can't wait to hear the official announcement of Google's Nexus One. The current most hype phone is looking for new owner this January. If you read the news, the pricing is US$529 for no contract and US$179 for 2 years contracts with T-Mobile USA. It is told that it also offers international shipping, but the additional fee is yet to be revealed.
Fortunately, there's some leak information for international customers from ZDNet. Unfortunately, it is not quite a good news. The additional price for taxes (and duties and shipping fees) worldwide may cost you another US$70 to US$209, depends on the country.
Here's the list (in US$):Australia - $103Austria - $168
Brazil - $209
Canada - $82
Czech Republic - $199
Estonia - $190
Finland - $160
France - $156
Germany - $152
Hungary - $192
India - $106
Italy - $148
Japan - $72
Mexico - $115
Netherlands - $150
New Zealand - $150
Northern Ireland - $123
Norway - $184
Poland - $196
Singapore - $154
South Africa - $185
Spain - $142
Sweden - $218
Switzerland - $104
Taiwan - $70
United Kingdom - $132I can't confirm whether the price is 100% right OR why the cost to Canada is more expensive than to Taiwan or Japan OR are that the only countries they will deliver. I guess since Taiwan's HTC made the phone, it's understandable why there's no listed price for China or Hong Kong -- they don't really get each other very well.
For Asia Pacific area, there's pricing for India, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. Sadly, in Southeast Asia, we only have Singapore pricing listed.
The total calculation, if we take Singapore total price for example, is US$683 (around SG$960). It is still cheaper than iPhone 3GS 16GB with no contract which cost you SG$1040 (about US$740). With competitive price and OS version 2.1's capability, there's plenty of space to fill in Asia Pacific region as Android platform is predicted to be booming in 2010. [image via Engadget]
