Google readying Nexus Two surprise?
Google's Nexus One - not a one-off after all?
Remember Google CEO Eric Schmidt telling us in mid-year that the Nexus One project was a “one-off” project without a follow-up?
Well, far be it for us to call the man a liar, but if normally reliable business paper City AM is to be believed, someone’s pants could be in danger of setting on fire before the year is out.
The paper claims that Google is working with Carphone Warehouse on a follow-up to the Android 2.1-debuting Nexus One, and that appropriately enough it will be the device to bring the next full version of the mobile OS – Android 3.0 Gingerbread – to the world.
The indifferent sales performance of Google’s first own-branded foray into the world of mobile hardware was largely put down to the company’s insistence on restricting the handset to a web-only sales model through a single website set up and controlled directly by Google.
City AM argues that teaming up with Carphone Warehouse will allow Google to maintain its single-source sales philosophy, but allied to a tangible retailer rather than a purely online store.
It’s worth mentioning, though, that the story is flavoured with a liberal pinch of salt in that City AM’s source – unsurprisingly – is an anonymous one.
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Mark Wheadon27 October 2010
Gingerbread will be for tablets? So presumably this will be a tablet rather than a phone -- a direct competitor to the iPad. Mark
Report as inappropriateAnonymous27 October 2010
Who says that Google can't just make the operating system compatible to a smaller screen? I am sure that Google are launching this to be a phone, and though the specs may seem to be pointing to a tablet, Google are Naming it as a phone.
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