Posts Tagged ‘Google Nexus One’

Well, by now you’ve probably heard the news that Google has said for sometime would never happen: the Internet oligarch officially unveiled the Google Nexus One, a Google-branded mobile phone. This follows weeks of clever marketing that had the blogosphere in a tizzy. Yes, that’s right, a Google-branded piece of hardware. Of course, The Google says it wasn’t fibbing all along, as technically the phone is made by Taiwan’s HTC (which means this phone will break the instant I put it in my pocket and walk out the door, but that’s another story). But it is a Google phone; you can only buy it from Google. We in journalism have a term for this tweaking of the truth: “marketing and PR.”

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If you’re a gadget type of person then unless you’ve been hiding under a rock on a deserted island or otherwise avoiding the Intertubes lately, then you’ve no doubt heard about the so-called Google Nexus One handset. Of course, people have been talking about a Google phone for years (ever since it gobbled up a company working on what eventually turned into Android). There are no details yet (unless you work for The Google), but the company has confirmed what was up on its official Google Mobile Blog. It is a carefully-worded statement that doesn’t actually state that a Google-branded phone is in the works (as some would have us believe), or that the handset is actually what it is being tested.

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