There’s been a large amount of hubbub in tech news recently over this new Google phone called the Nexus One. So far the availability seems to only be for Google employees. However, I have found Engadget’s Entelligence article about the Nexus One to be the most apropos.
As Michael Gartenberg discussed, if the Nexus One phone is anything more than a new developer phone it could kill Google’s Android smartphone operating system or just be giant waste of money for Google. If the Nexus One is better than all other Android phones, then no one will continue to make Android phones because they’re getting beat by the people that are giving them the software. If the Nexus One is worse than all of the other phones with Android, then Google spent all of that time and money for nothing.
The discussion here comes from Google’s insistence on an open handset alliance. That is just part of what is making Google the way they are, trying to make their software open in the sense that it may only be made by Google, but anyone can see the code and release their own version of it. As someone who has been using the Chrome browser, I would be interested to see a phone developed entirely by Google would look like, but this Nexus One does not look like it will be it.
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