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Facebook Should Absolutely Build a Mobile Phone: Tech News « — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:20:47 +0000

[...] a phone without “building” it. And it would of course try to improve on some of the pitfalls of the Nexus One, like direct sales, customer service and competing against carrier and handset [...]

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Google the 21st Century Conglomerate? Bad Idea – GigaOM — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:02:19 +0000

[...] into new industries that no one expected it to be in even a year ago. Most notably, it began offering the Nexus One, moving into the business of selling (and supporting) hardware devices, and now it’s sticking a [...]

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Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:28:17 +0000

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Google: The Mobile Web Could Be Better Than the PC Web – GigaOM — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:19:58 +0000

[...] at this point.” He also sought to clarify Google’s approach on its own device, the Nexus One: “What the Nexus One is really about is a new way of buying a phone. We think that’s a [...]

By: Paul UK

Paul UK — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:09:41 +0000

Well, as a counterpoint, I've been using phones since 1995 too, and i've had to use telephone support ONCE in that time (last year, trying to get WindowMobile to receive MMS properly - it still doesn't work right). I don't see it as that big an issue.

This feels almost like anearly release of the N1, before the marketing/support/carrier endorsement etc really gets going. It gives the early adopters their way to get the latest shiniest gadget, but maybe it's not ready for the mainstream yet.

Also, on a different note - in the UK the N1 truly is a fully unlocked, carrier independent phone ;-)

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By: DistortedLoop

DistortedLoop — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:19:47 +0000

Qualcomm's got (at least in the works) a world-mode chip for multiple carrier use. Of course you can "unlock" a CDMA phone, the issue is getting Verizon or the likes to take your phone that they haven't sold you and authorize the IMEI on their network (they require you to mail it to their labs for testing). Rumor has it the Nexus One already has the hardware to do both AT&T and T-Mobile, but I haven't researched that at all.

What other mobile OS company sells phones directly to customers...? A little company called Apple; maybe you've heard of them?

This banter is pretty pointless. You're cutting Google more slack than I am; that's your prerogative. I am not impressed with it at this point. Whether that's the presses fault, or Google's, whose to say? For a company that wants to control the world's information, they didn't do much to squelch the rampant rumors and expectations floating around the weeks before the launch.

By: Raymond Padilla

Raymond Padilla — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:52:34 +0000

I wasn't really expecting anything too big. Google is completely new to selling consumer electronics.

As for your thought on selling a multiple-carrier unlocked-phone, that's not possible yet. The CDMA carriers do not have unlocked phones available. The GSM carriers use different 3G frequencies. What were you expecting here?

Again, it's too early to judge Google's initiative. It could work well. It could fail spectacularly. Unlocked phones have never done well in America. I'm curious to see if Google can change that.

As for the model not changing anything, I disagree somewhat. What other mobile OS companies sell their phones directly? Again, this ties into having more phones and carriers available, but the potential for change is there.

By: Why Nexus One Will Make Money For Google – GigaOM

Why Nexus One Will Make Money For Google – GigaOM — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:02:14 +0000

[...] Android phone on the market. So much so, that GigaOM Pro Mobile curator Colin Gibbs wondered if it was time for Google to kill Nexus One. (Related from GigaOM PRO, sub-required: Nexus One & Google’s Mobile [...]

By: DistortedLoop

DistortedLoop — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:00:18 +0000

Actually, reports for the first week were that only 20,000 units were actively being used (per an analytics company) and many extrapolated that to mean only 20,000 were sold. Compared to first week sales of iPhones, Droids, and other popular devices, many proclaim the device to be a big failure sales-wise. Others, like myself, point out that there's no advertising for the thing, even on Google's own web page, beyond some banner ads on techy/geeky sites, so it's almost as if Google isn't trying to sell very many. I speculate they are keeping a low advertising profile while they test the waters of putting themselves into the distribution chain of actual physical things.

I ordered a Nexus One yesterday in the early afternoon. I ordered several other products from Amazon and some other companies. The Google product is the only one that didn't ship yesterday - though email this morning says it's in FedEx hands already and will be here tomorrow.