The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and TechCrunch.com said the phone will be the first phone completely designed by Google and branded entirely with its name. The phone, which will be built by HTC, will be sold directly from Google and won't be tied to a carrier nor will it sell with the normal carrier subsidy that brings most smart phones into the $200 range. Another model will reportedly be sold with a subsidy, according to a report Monday by Reuters.
Nexus One would seem to serve as a flagship for the budding Android operating system, with Google tightly integrating its software into a powerful piece of hardware beyond what's available in current Android devices on the market. TechCrunch said the touch-screen device would sport a 1GHz processor from Qualcomm, a large organic light-emitting diode display and a profile thinner than an iPhone 3GS
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