Is The Google Phone A Failure – Verizon, Sprint Snub Nexus One?
Posted on 19 May 2010
The Nexus One which is Google’s overhyped Android phone, is in the headlines for the wrong reasons. After it was announced last month that it would be available, Verizon was the first to prick the Nexus One bubble. This week, the Sprint and Nexus One pairing immediately vaporized. Sprint axed Nexus One after previously saying it would carry the device. Depending on who is talking, Verizon and Sprint snubbing Nexus One is either one of technology’s greatest failures, or a trivial misstep that doesn’t really matter.
Google web store Nexus One
The Nexus One failure seems to be obvious. Google wanted to make it so you could only buy the Nexus One in the Google web store. As reported on eWeek, Some experts do think the Google web store Nexus One model is clear evidence that carriers don’t want to sell a device that can’t sell in their own retail stores. Other experts think that the Nexus One was simply eclipsed by better Android phones.
Nexus One plan for Sprint
Things were looking good just a few months ago for Google’s Nexus One sales. PC World reports that in mid-March, Sprint announced that it planned on carrying a CDMA version of Google’s Nexus One sometime later this year. On Monday, Sprint decided to drop the Nexus One. Sprint decided to support the HTC EVO 4G Android instead. Sprint likely chose the HTC EVO 4G because it has a larger display screen than the Nexus One, runs on Sprint’s 4G WiMAX network and also features the HTC Sense UI. It definitely didn’t help that it is impossible to buy a Nexus One from Sprint with your online cash advance.
Nexus One Verizon
The Nexus One/Verizon deal has flopped thanks to the HTC Incredible Android phone. Both the Incredible and Google Nexus One have the same specs. The Incredible runs Android 2.1 like the Nexus One. What is the biggest difference between the two phones? The Droid Incredible will run HTC’s revised Sense UI. Informationweek.com reports that the newest version of Sense makes using the Android platform more enjoyable experience.
Nexus One’s Android advantage
Everybody likes a winner, and the Nexus One reputation suffered from initial 3G connectivity bugs and low sales figures. PC World said that the only advantage Nexus One has over Incredible and EVO is its direct tie to Google’s speedy OS update process. On the HTC Sense UI, a manufacturer-altered versions of Android, updates can take months to reach users.
Without Nexus One, Android thriving
Is Nexus One a huge failure? Most analysts believe Google is better off without the Nexus One. After its humiliating rejection by major carriers, the Nexus One may be done. Of course Google doesn’t mind that all its rivals run on Android. And all the media about smartphone competition, of all things, has raised the profile of Android to the point that Android phones actually outsold Apple’s iPhone last month.
Sources for the article
eWeek
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Google-Nexus-One-Not-a-Failure-Despite-Slights-By-Sprint-Verizon-409079/
PC World reports
http://www.pcworld.com/article/196022/why_sprint_and_verizon_nixed_the_nexus_one.html
Informationweek.com
http://www.informationweek.com/newshome/index.jhtml;jsessionid=1U2VTTNH0NJJRQE1GHPCKH4ATMY32JVN
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