Google has announced that it will end its online sales program after its final shipment of the Nexus One is sold.
The Nexus One will still be offered to developers via an unnamed partner while international sales will continue via select carrier partners around the world, with US availability being modeled after the international model. The Nexus One was Google’s strategy to offer its vision of Android with powerful hardware directly to consumers and enthusiasts.
The device came to prominence first for being the most powerful Android device announced and released, then being officially supported by T-Mobile with future support from Vodafone announced. Verizon initially announced support for the Nexus One at the same time before moving ahead with the equally powerful HTC Incredible and effectively cancelling the CDMA version.
My prediction is that HTC takes over sales of the phone. While Legend is nearly identical to Nexus One, I suspect HTC would like to capitalize on the Google branding and sell it directly.
It would also be an amicable resolution that would allow HTC an easy way to re-acquire device warranty and support systems from Google, saving Google the need to continue to have duplicate resources on their end.
oh no….