{"id":11384,"date":"2010-05-14T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/2010\/05\/14\/google-to-stop-selling-the-nexus-one-online-shift-to-in-store-sales\/"},"modified":"2010-05-14T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T17:19:00","slug":"google-to-stop-selling-the-nexus-one-online-shift-to-carrier-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=11384","title":{"rendered":"Google to Stop Selling the Nexus One Online, Shift to Carrier Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 2px 15px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"Nexus One Android Smartphone\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Nexus One Android Smartphone\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/nexusone.jpg\" width=\"161\" height=\"282\" \/> One thing that made the <a href=\"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/smartphone\/android\/nexus_one.htm\">Nexus One<\/a> noteworthy was that it was the first Android handset Google decided to take complete control of, including its sale.&#160; Even today, if you want a Nexus One \u2013 including the subsidized T-Mobile version \u2013 you have to order it from Google\u2019s Nexus One web page.&#160; <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">But that will change.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Engadget is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/05\/14\/google-changes-nexus-one-plans-will-stop-selling-handsets-onlin\/\">reporting<\/a> that Google will \u201ceventually\u201d stop selling the Nexus One online (or presumably in any other manner), and will instead shift to a carrier distribution strategy. Google, it seems, has come to believe that prospective owners would like to actually hold and use a smartphone before committing to it for two years.&#160; Go figure.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The story does not provide a date when this change might take place, but it does state that Google plans to use its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/phone\">existing Nexus One web page<\/a> to &quot;promote \u2018a variety of Android phones available globally.\u2019&quot;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">While the limited success of their direct-sale model must have disappointed the Google folks who put it in place, this change is a good one; if the Nexus One begins showing up in T-Mobile \u2013 and even AT&amp;T \u2013 stores, sales of the handset will certainly increase.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><em>Update:<\/em><\/strong> The Google Blog <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/nexus-one-changes-in-availability.html\">confirms the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that made the Nexus One noteworthy was that it was the first Android handset Google decided to take complete control of, including its sale.&#160; Even today, if you want a Nexus One \u2013 including the subsidized T-Mobile version \u2013 you have to order it from Google\u2019s Nexus One web page.&#160; But that will [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=11384\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11425,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11384\/revisions\/11425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}