How to Order Google’s Nexus One Smart Phone if You Live Outside the US, UK, HK, or Singapore
As we all know, Google launched its first smart phone on January 5th, 2010. Luckily for people living in the US, UK, Hong Kong or Singapore, you can order it directly from Google from their web store. For the rest of us, we are either forced to wait for a change in their shipping policy or work our way around this. In a global Internet world, anything is possible. Here is the easy guide how to get the phone to your own doorsteps within a few days, I’m waiting for mine to arrive as I’m writing this.
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Get access to the ordering process by downloading and installing the free Hotspot Shield software (Windows & Mac only). By installing this you protect your location and IP address so that Google’s web store won’t block you out from the ordering process. When installed and activated, proceed to the next step.
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Sign up for a US based shipping address at MyUSABox.com. In practice, this is free as the US $5 they charge for registering will be credited to you when you use the service for the first time. They ship products worldwide and even repackage the boxes for an additional fee to help minimize custom declarations in your local country.
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Sign up for a Google Checkout account. If you already have a Google / Gmail account, you can add that easily through your Google account settings.Note that you can use any international shipping address and credit card for this purpose, it does not have to be the MyUSABox address you just signed up for
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Order your personal Nexus One phone phone by pointing your browser to http://www.google.com/phone. Please make sure you opt for the SIM free phone at $529 + sales tax (a NY based shipping address will add $46.95 sales tax to your order, totalling at $575.95). Also, make sure you enter the MyUSAbox shipping address and Google Account billing address to the order.
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Wait for your N1 to arrive to MyUSABox. You should get notified by email as soon as it arrives unless your e-mail spam filters are too tight.
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Log in to MyUSABox and forward your box to your home address, it should arrive within a few days.
This should be simple enough to do in 15 minutes, unfortunately you have to pay the additional shipping cost but it should be reasonable if you really want to try out the new phone from HTC and Google. For me, shipping was a fair overpriced $49 to EU (including re-packaging), giving a total price of $625 (~€435) for the whole adventure.
matt I have a problem, whenever I click on the GET YOUR PHONE tab, it just refreshes the page !!!
any comments ??
I am from India. Any other services I could use ?
I have same problem as Kunal above. Any solution on this issue?
Thanks,
Fred
This “refresh” issue is new to me as well. The first thing that comes to my mind is that they may have changed something on the page that blocks international traffic even if you use a SW proxy. You could always try to use some of these online proxies to see if it solves the issue: http://www.webproxies.org/
I tried a couple before using the installable software but the ones I tried did not support both https (SSL) and JavaScript (seemed to be needed by the Google Webshop), but I’m sure some of them do if you only have patience to test them.
Hei guys.
I’m interested in doing this think too. I live in EU, Romania. How long does it take from the moment I order the phone till I can pick it up? What’s the total cost(including taxes)?
Thanks.
Make sure you click the “Re-invoice” option before shipping it from myUSABox, mine came as a $39.90 phone battery according to my instructions…
Hi Guys, Am interested in this phone and shall order a large quantity for sale in Nigeria if properly guided.
Hope to hear from you as soon as possible.
Thank you.
What do you call the “contents” of the package on the shipping lable part of the package to “avoid” taxes to be paid and skip the cutoms ?
(holland)
hello all,
works fine for me with Hotspot.
the only thing is that i don’t know how this myUSAbox works. i don’t know if it can be agreed with them to mark the shipment as a gift and put a symbolic price on it so i can reduce customs as much as possible.
if you answer to Radu’s post, it would answer another question of mine too, since i am also from Romania
regarding International-Orders website it looks like its a scam, they charge triple the amount for shipping, stay away you’ve been warned.
The Hotspot trick won’t work for me in Safari. It keeps re-directing me back to the same page over and over again.