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• Google Closing Its Nexus One Web Store

  Google's groundbreaking model for selling Android phones from a single Web site is about to become history.

• Google to shutter Nexus One e-store

  Google will stop selling its Nexus One online because the Android phone's <a href="http://www.google.com/phone">store</a> hasn't caught on with potential buyers, the company said Friday.

• Sprint nixes Google's Nexus One phone

  Sprint said on Monday that it no longer plans to support Google's Nexus One phone, making it increasingly uncertain that Google can achieve its vision for phone sales in the U.S.

• Top-rated cell phones also rank high in radiation emissions

  An environmental activist group has issued its latest list of popular cell phones that emit comparatively high levels of RF radiation, though all are within federal limits. 

• Google building phone support for Nexus One

  After struggling to support Nexus One customers using an online-only approach, Google appears to be developing a phone customer service operation.

• Google to push update for Nexus One soon

  Google hopes to be able to push out a software fix in about a week for a 3G connectivity problem that many Nexus One users have complained about.

• Blade Runner family sues Google over Nexus One, Android

  The family of Blade Runner author Philip K. Dick is to sue Google for infringement of intellectual property rights over the name of its recently announced Nexus One smartphone.

• Google faces deluge of Nexus One complaints

  Google support forums are awash with people looking for help for problems with their Nexus One phones -- and unable to find it.

• Google Nexus One vs Apple iPhone 3GS

  Google's Nexus One, built by Taiwan's HTC, offers much of what one expects in a high-end 3G smartphone. Yet is it enough, and good enough, to give the iPhone 3GS a run for the money? Initial reviews like its design, speed and integration with the Web. With a two-year T-Mobile contract (at $US80 per month), Nexus costs $US179 (or $530 unlocked). A CDMA version is due with Verizon Wireless in Spring 2010. In this slideshow, we focus on some of the key differences, comparing the two smartphones in terms of their published specifications, with some comments from (and links to) early reviews and assessments of the Nexus.

• Nexus One another tactic in Google's ad-revenue strategy

  Dash all the announcements of a fast new Google phone called Nexus One, because today the search company made conceivably bigger news with its creation of a Google-hosted Web store for purchasing its Android devices.

• Google's Nexus One: Questions and Answers

  Friends, Romans, Internetmen, the day has arrived. Yes, my fellow Netizens, Google's Nexus One is finally here.

• Six reasons to not like Google's Nexus One

  Google's new Nexus One smartphone is not an iPhone killer. It may not even be a Droid killer, but it may be Google's first serious and most public misstep. Basically, the Nexus One is a somewhat faster Droid with a somewhat better screen.

• Google Nexus One early termination fee could reach $550

  Buyers beware: people who choose the subsidized new Google Nexus One phone with a T-Mobile contract will get hit with US$550 in early termination fees if they cancel their service in under four months.

• What the Nexus One isn't

  Perhaps as interesting as describing Google's Nexus One, unveiled on Tuesday, is examining what the phone isn't.

• Google takes wraps off Nexus One

  Three years after rumors of a Google phone first surfaced, the search giant has taken the wraps off its own branded and designed mobile phone, the Nexus One.