• 20th July 2010 - By Nexus1News

    Despite coming in second in ReadWriteWeb’s 2010 Best of the Web poll, the sales numbers for Google’s Nexus One were dismal. In the same amount of time it took Apple to sell 1 million iPhones, Google only sold 135,000 of the Android-powered Nexus.

    Now, Google is discontinuing the Nexus One altogether. On July 16, the company announced that it received its final order from the phone’s manufacturer, HTC.

    The Android ecosystem as a whole is in no danger. There are a host of phones available running on that platform. By one measure, Android is even outpacing iOS. But the Nexus One was the Google phone, as opposed to simply an Android phone. Perhaps Google has found manufacturing and marketing hardware is outside their comfort zone.

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    Google to Discontinue Nexus One

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