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.
I’m trying this at the moment but I’m starting to get worried! Phone arrived to sorting hub in Germany but now it is back in US again, in Cincinnati! And that is disturbingly close to Indianapolis which is from where Google sent it to MyUSABox… Hmz…time will tell.
Matt… I love you.
N1 all ordered and I’m dying to see it! And MUCH cheaper than eBay. I was so happy, I even ordered the dock as well…
if webproxy does not work, try one of the free, US based, vpn solutions… worked for me
Dos anyone here know anything about if the phone will operate on the Danish network, and is it only in the US you can buy the Nexus ?
Enmute ( Denmark )
Yes, the Nexus One will work in Denmark. All orders are shipped from US but you can buy it in US, UK, HK, and SG.
Maybe I’m asking stupid but please help me anyway
Do I have to use a special network (in Denmark) to make full use of the N1? Like 3 for instance or can I use my current sim-card from Telmore?
Or how does it work?
Just to update the above post – my Nexus One arrived at my house in Ireland today! Thanks for all the advice!
IT’S GORGEOUS…
OH, also. The total cost on my credit card statement:
Phone – €468.39
USA Box – € 3.74
Delivery and repackaging – € 39.79
= €511.92
Still cheaper than eBay! And no customs.
(I’ll stop posting right after this)
Forgot to mention that I also bought the dock, which is included in the price of the phone and the weight of the package. Awesome awesome awesome.
@Qee4q
No special networks needed, the N1 works with all European GMS and 3G networks. Just insert your SIM card and you are ready to go. You may have to configure the data connection and MMS Access Points manually, you’ll most likely find instruction on your netowrk operator’s support web site.