According to Bloomberg news, Verizon Wireless, the country’s largest mobile-phone carrier, won’t be offering Google’s highly anticipated Nexus One phone after all, saying it will focus on offering other Android-powered smartphones instead.
“It’s really a flop for Google,” said a New York-based analyst. “They paid a price to roll out their own branded phone — it’s a price of trust and relationship with some of the other players in the space.”
It’s a blow to Google because it means the loss of offering the handset to more than 90 million Verizon Wireless customers. Some think the deal may have floundered thanks to fears by Verizon that Google was more of a competitor than a partner.
Yet, Google insists that it was to blame for the Nexus One deal falling through, citing “amazing innovation happening across the open Android ecosystem,” whatever that means.
So if you want a Nexus One Google is about the only place you can get one for now.
