Nexus One Coming To Verizon And Vodafone, First Of A “Series Of Devices”
At today’s Nexus One event, Google announced that Nexus One phone is the “first of many devices” and that in the spring a CDMA version will be coming to Verizon in the U.S. and Vodafone in Europe. The phones will be available on Google’s new online phone store
, and will be available with a service contract.
Google’s phone store is a branded consumer channel for people to buy Android phones “with or without service.” This is radical departure from the way most people buy phones in the U.S. today, which is directly from each carrier or (in the case of the iPhone, in an Apple store. but even with the iPhone, you have no choice of carrier.