Here is why Cody Willard thinks Google’s gonna kill the Nexus One and their entire cell phone sales business sometime this year or next:
1. Retailing hardware isn’t what business Google is in.
2. They don’t wanna compete against their partners.
3. Google’s damaging its brand name.
4. The Nexus One is a stupid name anyway.
5. The cell phone business will hurt Google’s gross margins.

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Google on Friday confirmed that it had ditched upgrade pricing for its Nexus One smartphone and will issue $100 refunds to those T-Mobile customers who paid more.
Customers have the option to purchase a Nexus One with a two-year T-Mobile contract for $279 or without a contract for $529. Existing T-Mobile customers who opted to upgrade to a Nexus One, however, were originally charged $379 to make the change.

“We worked with T-Mobile and are now able to offer the higher upgrade discount to all existing fully eligible T-Mobile subscribers,” Google said in a statement. “This price is now $279. Refunds will be granted to all eligible subscribers who previously purchased the Nexus One at $379. This doesn’t affect any eligible customers who bought the phone for $279.”

Read the full story on PC Magazine.

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While we are mere hours away from the Google Android announcement which is set to announce the worst kept secret in Android right now, the Nexus One. While other goodies/phones/Googly stuff might await us, TMONEWS managed to take a peek around the Nexus One support page link. Originally discovered before the New Year, the link had originally taken us to a dead page. Now, we see that the page is live though surprisingly with a video of Android 2.0, not 2.1 as the Nexus One is set to release with. Unfortunately for those of you who might have been hoping for a surprise in the pricing, the Terms of Sale page are exactly what we have already seen and read.

However the page is now down again.

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Here is some information about the Nexus One from Cnet:

• It’s $530 unsubsidized. Google’s not going to be selling the phone at cost, like so many people considered. They’re not going to save us from the “making money off of hardware” culture we’ve got right now, so this is basically just another Android handset, albeit a really good one
• If you want it subsidized, you’ll have to sign up for a 2 year mandatory contract and pay $180 for the phone
• There’s only one rate plan: $39.99 Even More + Text + Web for $79.99 total
• Existing customers cannot keep their plan if they want a subsidized phone; they have to change to the one plan, and this only applies to accounts with one single line
• If that doesn’t fly with you, you have to buy the $530 unlocked version–this actually might save you money over two years if you already have a cheap plan
• Family plans, Flexpay, SmartAccess and KidConnect subscribers must buy the phone unlocked and unsubsidized for $530
• You can only buy five Nexus One phones per Google account
• There is language in the agreement of shipping outside the US
• Google will sell it at google.com/phone, which explains what they were doing with that page a few weeks ago
• Google will still call it the Nexus One apparently, and not the Google Phone
• If you cancel your plan before 120 days, you have to pay the subsidy difference between what you paid and the unsubsidized price, so $350 in this case. Or you can return the phone to Google. You also authorize them to charge this directly to your credit card.

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The Nexus One, Google’s secret smartphone isn’t out yet but is already generating a lot of buzz online.
Endgadget’s Chris Ziegler said on Wednesday that the Nexus One will be available on January 5th on an invite-only basis to start. “Our tipster doesn’t have information on how those invites are going to be determined, other than the fact that it’s Google doing the inviting — if we had to guess, current registered developers are a strong possibility,” he wrote.

Also on Wednesday, Gizmodo’s Jason Chen wrote about a “clandestine meeting with a source” who allowed him to give the Nexus One a test run, to the tune of a rave review. Mr. Chen went so far as to call it “Google’s Droid killer,” and wrote that, in comparison to Motorola’s Droid, “it’s thin, it’s fast, it’s better in every way.”

Read the full story on the WSJ

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Today, some Twitpics shared by one user show those. As a bonus, he also shows off a bit of its HTC-innards.

The Nexus One is expected to be released early next year sold both unlocked from Google and in partnership with at least one major carrier.

Source: TechCrunch

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Most recent leaks suggest that the Nexus One would not be an unsubsidized and unlocked model. Reuters claims, citing unidentified sources, that T-Mobile will finally discount the Android phone for those customers who want to sign up for a contract. The phone would also sell through Google’s website directly and would be available on January 5th, just in time for CES.

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HP, Acer, Dell, and…Google? That’s right — Google could soon join the ranks of those netbook manufacturers. The rumor mill now suggests that a Google-branded netbook will arrive next year, in addition to the Google phone.

TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington cites “multiple sources” as saying Google is working directly with at least one computer manufacturer on hardware specs, in the same way that the search giant reportedly dictated hardware and design to HTC for the Nexus One smartphone. The netbook would be branded with Google and sold directly to consumers.

Read the full story on PC World.

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The apparent plan of Google Inc. (GOOG) to produce a mobile phone under its own brand has unsettled the wireless industry, but the Web giant won’t find it easy to replicate the same success it’s achieved on the Internet.

Last weekend, the company issued Google-branded phones to some employees, fueling reports it will sell its own handset directly to consumers by early next year. Yet Google has been cryptic about its wireless strategy and its motives remain shrouded.

Until now, Google has focused on developing Android, its own mobile software platform for wireless phones, and licensing it for free to …

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It looks like one of the members at XDA has his hands on the Google Nexus One and you know what that means… T-R-O-U-B-L-E. And that spells awesome if you’re an Android fan. One of the coolest cosmetic things to come out of it is the video that plays when you turn your Nexus One on:

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