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RIP Nexus One Direct Purchase Program

The Nexus One is no longer available direct from Google.  They have sold their last phone.  Don’t worry too much, there will be retails outlets, or so we’re told and Android developers will be able order an N1 from the developer website, again not yet, but maybe eventually.  It was a good run Google.  Thanks. [...]

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Evo 4G Sets Sales Record at Sprint

“…the total number of HTC EVO 4G devices sold on launch day was three times the number of Samsung Instinct and Palm Pre devices sold over their first three days on the market combined.” – Sprint PR That pretty much sums up how excited Sprint is over the latest Android super phone released to the [...]

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Android Pushes and Competitors Push Back

Android pushes forward and competitors push back.  For many months now, it’s been known that Android will be making a huge push in 2010.  Manufacturers have been promising 20+ new Android phones this year, as well as a number of other Android devices including eReaders, Tablets and PMPs.  It seems that all this Android buzz [...]

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Nexus One – Two Months Later

Nexus One – Two Months Later

Google is trying out a different method of getting the cell phone into the user’s hands.  Direct sales.  They began this method Jan 5th, 2010 with the announcement and release of the Nexus One, which can only be purchased directly through Google via a website.  The phone comes “unlocked” as it is not directly tied [...]

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Nexus One – Extra Battery – Extra Twenty-Five

Nexus One users can now purchase an extra battery for their Google powered Android super phone.  Available direct from Google’s Nexus One purchase page, the 1400mAH battery will cost you $25 + shipping.  There really isn’t much more to say about it, other than if you are a power hog during the day, picking up [...]

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Nexus One Advertising and Sales

Google officially introduced the world to the Nexus One phone on Jan 5th, exactly four week ago.  Apart from the semi private introduction part, only open to invitees and of course all their web blogs/video feeds (for the rest of us), there has been very little advertising of the Nexus One.  The N1 available today [...]

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Google Unprepared for Nexus One

I think it can go without saying that Google was a little unprepared for selling the Android 2.1 powered Nexus One direct.  Just yesterday, The New York Times posted an article wondering where Google’s customer support was, and there are a few stories prior to that related to the 3G issues people are having and [...]

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