Nexus One Google Phone

Andy Rubin noted on the official Google blog, “We’ll stop selling handsets via the web store, and will instead use it as an online store window to showcase a variety of Android phones available globally.” This means the Nexus One would be widely available in the retail outlets.

Google Nexus One is manufactured by HTC and is currently available only in U.S., the UK, Singapore and Hong Kong exclusively through Google’s Online Store. However, it looks like Google is now planning to make Nexus One available through select retailers globally.

Google seems to have realized that consumers want to touch, feel and experience the Nexus One instead of just seeing online demos.

According to reports only 20,000 Google Nexus One phones were sold in its first week of sales, according to sales estimates from market research firm Flurry. In comparison to its Android sibling the numbers are 12 times lower than for the Motorola Droid and 80 times lower than for the iPhone 3GS.

The Nexus One didn’t benefit from such a strong marketing push like the Motorola Droid (estimated $100 million), despite Google’s phone featuring so-far unique Android features. This has reflected in poor first week sales for the Nexus One.

The Nexus One is an over-hyped Android phone. But that doesn’t stop it from being the best Android phone. It is, for two reasons: Hardware and software.

Despite the buzz, it’s not revolutionary, certainly not because of the way it’s being sold—unlocked for $530 or subsidized, with a T-Mobile contract for $180. Sure, Google created its own web store that breaks the act of purchasing the device away from choosing a carrier—it’ll soon even be sold by Google for use on the Verizon network. But people have been doing this for years by buying unlocked GSM phones from Nokia and Sony Ericsson and hooking them on to any GSM provider. It’s just not the giant step forward that everyone was expecting.

Read the rest of this nexus one google phone review at http://gizmodo.com/5443835/nexus-one-review

Soon after Google began selling the Nexus One message boards and support forums were flooded with issues. People were experiencing distribution and technical problems. Google may have to begin real phone customer service in order to keep up with support issues for their new venture.

People were confused about T-Mobiles upgrade  policies for existing customers which is reported to make it very difficult for a current customer to get the $179 subsidized price of the Nexus One. People are using the support forums for every possible complaint or question about the new Nexus One phone.

The way Google has handled support for its free services in the past is with support forums. This is going to be insufficient for this new market. Phone customers want help from real live phone interaction. They want answers and fixes to their problems quickly.

Either Google or T-Mobile are going to have to get with the program.

It’s here the Nexus One Google Phone has made it. You can buy it directly from google at this location: http://www.google.com/phone

Why is the Nexus One so cool?

The Nexus One google phone is so cool because it’s from Google. Let’s face it. Google is awesome. They make really useful tools and make them well.  It’s really an interesting thing for them to be going into the hardware business. It makes a lot of sense though. This new phone is really going to change the game. iPhone has ruled for a while now and it’s my opinion that they need to just give it up. The iPhone is cool.. But it stinks in a lot of ways. I won’t go into detail right now though.

Lets focus on the Nexus One phone a little.

Finally we have a great phone with a great operating system and we don’t have to be tied to one carrier.  Right now you can get a contract with T-mobile and pay $179 for the Nexus One with a 2 year contract. If you want to buy the phone and use it on a different carrier it will cost you $529. In the Spring of 2010 Verizon will be supporting the Nexus One along with its already carried Droid which also runs the Android operating system from Google. The phone is also rumored to support other carriers.

One thing the Nexus One and other non iPhones have against them is the iTunes store which is pretty simple to use and has just about everything on it. I’m in the near future we will be seeing something very similar to it on the Google Nexus One phone.