Google closes Nexus one mobile phone shop

Google Inc. announced Friday it will stop selling the Nexus A smartphone with its withdrawn online store as an internet giant's efforts to the mobile phone market by selling directly to mobile phones has to reform to customers.

The company, in Mountain View, California, said based on a blog, make the phone to consumers through the existing wireless partner for the distribution would. Google added that its online store is a showcase for an online store where you can view a variety of phones with built its Android software have become.

Andy Rubin, head of Google Android, said in the message that the company is very happy happy with the adoption of the Android phones in general, although not blind to web design expectations. The strategy met with mixed results, including the mismanagement of customer service and poor sales.

The recall is the latest blow for Nexus One of companies, the mobile brand. Google broke with convention when he threw his mobile phone in January and said it would be a Nexus through its online store to sell with or without a wireless contract.

The phone sells for $ 529 without wireless service. American customers can also phone us for $ 179, if they commit to a two-year contract with Deutsche Telekom AG, T-Mobile USA, the only U.S. airline to propose a plan of Nexus.

However, competitors Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. recently said it would not deprive Nexus One are available on their networks, Nexus A potential ownership of their choice of airlines. Sprint and Verizon Wireless, which are jointly by Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group PLC, both based on their own Android as an alternative for quality.

Vodafone last month began giving telephone Nexus, British customers, who said plans for service-mark and that the phone at the output storesCthe first-line approach had just Google the U.S.