Google is taking over  

Posted by Courtney Anthony in , ,

Google officially released their own phone called Nexus One. Currently T-mobile is the only provider of Google's services but Google has created an unlocked service. Any mobile company can choose to be apart of this, enabling mobile companies to create competition between one another and offer different prices for Google based phones. As other mobile phones begin to use Google services, I think consumers will benefit. They will have the opportunity and choice to find cheaper smart phones. Google will largely benefit from its mass distributed service but unfortunately I do not think this is a positive change for Verizon Android phones. Considering they just launched towards the end of 2009. But, as Walter S. Mossberg says in The Wall Street Journal, Verizon will eventually sell this service too. The article goes on to talk about the benefits and disadvantages of Nexus one.

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Peter Inthirakoth   says January 5, 2010 at 11:54 PM

I still don't understand why this phone is a particularly big deal. It has some nice features but the price isn't competitive with what the iPhone offers. For $200, you get more memory without the app storage limitations and a well designed user interface. The iPhone's first major drawback is its lack of multitasking. If that is ever fixed (correctly), then it would truly be difficult to kill.
Its other drawback is that it is tied to the AT&T network. I've used an iPhone on their 2G network and let me say that I canceled loading a webpage rather than sit through the arduous period.
It's good that the competition is heating up. I just wish that there are more legitimate ones out there.

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