According to the folks at Electronista, a new leaked memo out from the land of T-Mobile, shows that the company is hoping to pull away iPhone users with some cash incentives to switch to the HTC HD2.
The promotion would start in April and run through May 19th, and the company is planning to let any users of iPhones to get at least a $100 credit, and up to $350 should they trade in a working device. What's unknown though, is if consumers have to already be T-Mobile customers or if they could be AT&T users switching networks.
However, the promotion would not be universal, and will most likely only be found at third party dealers, rather than actual T-Mobile stores. The company will be planning to take some direct phone orders, as well as making business deals.
The purpose behind this is also unclear, but supposedly the HD2 has been huge for T-Mobile. It might have sold 21,000 phones in one day, and also gone through multiple sellouts of the unit, with customers scooping up the phone as soon as it arrives. The HD2 uses Windows Mobile, which usually doesn't do as well against the likes of the iPhone and Android.
T-Mobile is the only other big time GSM carrier in the country, and at the same time, has hosted a large amount of iPhone users that have jailbroken their phones to use T-Mobile's network.
mob1278
April 08, 2010 at 9:12am
Look my wife is a manager for T-Mobile and she carries an iPhone 3Gs to work to use as her corporate contact number at T-Mobile and the company absolutely hates it. Think about that for a minute, a person in management (who is an example of leadership) uses a competitors phone for her corporate phone. Let alone that the company gives her a fully featured phone for free such as the Android phones and even this new HTC HD2, no contract, $15/month, and unlimited data that includes text all for $25/m...And she still pays ATT along with me on the plan $180/month for the iPhone. If that doesn't say anything to you about the iPhones power then I don't know what will! Her bosses ask her why and she tells them all the time that the features and the usability of the iPhone is on another level than any other phone on the market and she will not change! The funny thing about all of this is that she frowned upon the iPhone until I bout the 3Gs and had it for about a week and then I let her take it to work for a day and she has not gone back since! She won't jailbreak it to use T-Mobile service because she says the network won't allow her to use the phone and have web access at the same time on T-Mobiles network. She said the features of the HTC phone are good but not good enough!
