Google to Stop Selling Nexus One

July 19, 2010

After a long and painful sales drop, Google has finally put the Nexus One phone out of its despair. The search company will stop selling its first – and possibly last – Google phone.

After a big launch back in January, the Nexus One went into decline. It was sold only through Google’s own web store, and the lack-of a handson, try-before-you-buy option kept consumers away from buying according to Google.

Google dropped the web store in May, putting the Nexus One into bricks-and-mortar stores, but it seems that even that couldn’t help. As soon as Google’s “last shipment of Nexus One phones” is sold out, you’ll only be able to find the handset via a few retail partners in (Vodafone in some parts of Europe and KT in Korea). Developers will still be able to buy the hardware, too. It will be available through an as-yet unnamed partner.

While the hardware dies, though, the software is still going strong. Android continues to grow, and its open-source nature means that handset makers are doing all sorts of great things like adding unremovable bloatware or preventing the user from running an unapproved version of the OS on their own handset (Motorola’s eFuse).

Now that the Nexus One is gone, it’s looking like the Motorola Droid (pictured), Droid X, or HTC Evo are the likely front-runners in the Android race.

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Posted By Russ · In Industry 

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