Going Ga Ga for a Google Nexus?

As anticipated, Official Google Blog: Our new approach to buying a mobile phone.  The Nexus One run’s Google’s Android mobile operating system, but unlike other Android phones it is designed and sourced by Google.  Google contracted with HTC which also makes many of handsets running Microsoft’s mobile operating system.  Unlike the Windows Phone operating system the Android operating system is open source which allows the phone designers more freedom in the phone design.
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Presumably Google was not seeing the kind of innovation they had hoped their open approach would foster and decided to take matters into their own hands, pun intended.

After viewing Malt Mosbergs review the Nexus One sounds like a contender but the phone itself is not a game changer, yet.

The Nexus One’s most distinctive and disruptive feature is it’s being sold as an “unlocked” phone directly from Google.  By selling locked phones cell phone carriers have subsidized (discounted) the cost of the phone in exchange for multi-year contracts with a higher monthly cost.  But how much higher, nobody knows.  It is like getting a great price on a car so long as you agree to only buy higher priced fuel from the car’s dealer.  It’s OK  until someone starts selling fuel at a lower cost and the price difference become apparent.

I’ll take a serious look at the Google Nexus One when my current T-Mobile contract ends next month.  Right now T-Mobile is offering a “no-contract” plan for $10 less per line than the 2-year contract plan.

P.S.  As an Apple (AAPL) stockholder I’d like to see Apple offer an unlocked iPhone.  And even as a consumer I would probably choose an unlocked iPhone vs. an unlocked Nexus One.

P.S.S. I’m looking forward to knowing more about Google Voice integration with a Google phone.  Any information would be much appreciated.

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