Thanks for setting it straight. It's as I've heard as well. Kind of bullshit policy that can obviously be gotten around, but it doesn't make sense to me why you'd put customers through that PITA.

Anyway, after reading the reviews on the Nexus One and seeing how its sales are being handled, I don't think the phone is going anywhere anyway. Not likely a good buy for someone that wants future support as I think this one is going to be abandonware sooner rather than later. A stepping stone for Google and just another weekly release for HTC. And that's actually the problem I have with HTC. They've yet to make anything of long-term quality. The more nameless and indentity-stripped phones they release, the weaker I see them as a brand. They should get their retail shit together or just fall into the background and get back into solely dong OEM and ODM work devoid of the HTC name.