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Blow to Google: Verizon says NO to Nexus One

Apr 26, 2010 12:58PM PDT

So much for the Google "sell it ourselves" experiment, or so it would seem. Since Google decided to one-up everyone else selling Android phones by keeping the best available (at the time) all to themselves, competition has made them suffer for it. Verizon has decided the "Incredible" from HTC is a better Android device, and even though they originally agreed to support the Nexus, they are backing out.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/26/verizon-nexus-one-incredible/

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No biggie. Google will just start their own Cellular network
Apr 27, 2010 2:36AM PDT

...then possibly their own country.

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(NT) Good chance it's a requirement for carrying the iPhone...
Apr 27, 2010 8:36AM PDT
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I didn't think of that...
Apr 27, 2010 9:02AM PDT

Good point, Shalin! I hadn't considered that possibility, thinking that it was really just Verizon wanting to have more control over the Nexus One than Google was willing, given Google's distribution model.

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(NT) hahaha nice thought! i like it.
Apr 27, 2010 2:54PM PDT
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So what
Apr 27, 2010 1:59PM PDT

HTC Incredible is already better.

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meh ill take the incredible over the nexus one anyway...
Apr 27, 2010 2:55PM PDT

although if the point was that verizon REALLY wanted their crapware on it, then im far less enthused... >Sad