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Google closes Nexus One web store
ONETIME ASPIRING mobile phone seller Google has closed down its Nexus One web store following an earlier announcement that it would do so after it unloaded one last shipment of the smartphones.
The website now displays the message, "Sorry, folks. The Nexus One is no longer available for purchase directly from Google."
However, you can still buy one through carriers, including Vodafone in the UK and other countries, as well as online if you are a registered Android developer.
The store was opened last January, with the search engine company saying that it would "fundamentally change the way phones are sold." Of course it didn't.
The company said that the Nexus One was the first in a range of devices it planned to release. It was supposed to be working on a Nexus Two. As it turned out, it wasn't.
Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO later announced that the company would not produce a Nexus Two because the Nexus One was "so successful".
Of course it wasn't, although Google did learn a lot from the experience, Schmidt said.
We would have thought the lesson would have been something like, "don't, leave it for someone who knows what they are doing." µ
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I thought Google had cancelled the Nexus One because it was happy with how other phone manufacturers had taken to the Android operating system and no longer feel the need to sell their own devices?
Google are, of course, a software company and the Nexus One smart phone was developed to promote Android, which worked. So what he means by "Not produce a Nexus Two because Nexus One was "so succesful"" is that the Nexus One succesfully got other manufacturers interested in Android, so Google don't need to make any more devices.