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Google Nexus Two Might Never Come

on July 7, 2010 – 7:10 am2 Comments

Google wanted to move the phone platform hardware business forward, so they joined hands with HTC to successfully launched the much awaited “Google Phone”. Nexus One was powered by Google’s very own mobile operating system Android. Nexus One had limited success and the sales was not upto their expectations. For those who liked the Nexus One and was eagerly waiting for the Google Nexus Two, then here is a bad news for you. According to Eric Schmidt, they may never launch the Google Nexus Two.

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“The idea a year and a half ago was to do the Nexus One to try to move the phone platform hardware business forward. It clearly did. It was so successful, we didn’t have to do a second one. We would view that as positive but people criticised us heavily for that. I called up the board and said: ‘Ok, it worked. Congratulations – we’re stopping’. We like that flexibility, we think that flexibility is characteristic of nimbleness at our scale,” says Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt.

This is definitely not a good news for most of us. Earlier we have even seen that Nexus One was available only via Google Store, but due to its failure, they finally closed the Google Store and started selling the Nexus One in retail outlets. Forget Nexus Two, many of us have not even got a chance to buy this device since it was not launched in many countries including India.

Here is a quick question, if you liked the Nexus One, would you really buy the Google Nexus Two? And the second question is for mobile phone users living in those countries where Nexus One has not been launched yet – would you still like to buy the Nexus One, if they launched it in your country?

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  • JokeyRhyme

    For me, the best and most unique feature of the Google Nexus One is its lack of firmware protection. What I mean, is that with very little effort you can access the boot loader and tinker with almost every aspect of the phone. Google doesn’t mind.

    Since the N1 was released, it seems every other manufacturer has gone out of their way to shackle their Android devices with additional layers of security. This means that the manufacturers are the only people capable of updating a phone’s firmware. This is terrible because when they stop supporting a phone (and sometimes they never even start), even though it is physically capable of running new software, the owner of the handset is stuck.

    Android is a very agile platform, and is gaining significant new features all the time. Manufacturers can’t keep up with the pace. Allowing the community to compile their own versions of these updates would provide owners of expensive handsets with a support buffer.

    To answer your questions, I would most definitely be interested in a Google Nexus Two provided it came as unencumbered as the N1.

    The N1 only just now launched in Australia with limited availability (via Vodafone) and I am tempted to upgrade. However, I don’t like the strange pixel-grid on the N1, and its lack of a physical slide-out keyboard is a deal breaker.

    Unfortunately, I fear any handset that I do otherwise like will probably be secured from community updates and will likely be unsupported by the manufacturer within 6 months. Lame.

  • http://www.twitter.com/rkNaveen rkNaveen

    Sure there are many buyers for Nexus one in India,
    if it had been launched in India when it was unveiled in US,
    it would have been a Good success, but People are uncomfortable to
    put in a 30k on a device whose manufacturer could pull the plug on the
    device, with the launch of Samsung Galaxy S and HTC desire to come,
    Road for N1 success in India is Tough, I would definitely buy
    Samsung Galaxy S instead of N1..! but tat’s just me..