Tongue in cheek round-up of the Nexus One story so far
There was Google. Then came Android. And then the Google phone. The Gphone was said to exist. And then apparently it did exist. According to sources in the know who couldn’t be named. And it was sighted. In the wild. In the hands of Google staff that is - dear God what were Google doing? An experiment! On their own people!
Sightings increased with blurry images, excited video’s of smeared screens. The french do leaked videos whilst smoking it seems. But it was alive and it was the Nexus One and we wanted more. Google would shake up the industry, change the world with this revolutionary device. A launch date discovered and Google revealed all. But what was this - just a phone! And for more money than we liked to dream. The greatest ever Android phone but a revolution? An iPhone killer ahhhh comparisons. Yes we can measure it. Performance. Features. Google packaged Android. And a store?
A new direct way to buy mobile phones online. Android phones approved by Google. A quieter revolution. Incremental. Google style. A giant of online advertising but an infant in the world of mobile phone customer support. A shaky start. In the eyes of those who say so. 20,000 handsets and a Google style beta. No-one knows for sure. But then not many have really known all along. China looking dicey. Fragmentation of Android. The antithesis of the Nexus project. Some would hope. A Nexus Enterprise and Google already iterating better versions. And beneath all of this, hidden in the surface of the earth, a vast mineral consciousness near absolute zero, thinking in slow formations of crystal…
January 2010. And there’s a new player in the smartphone game. ‘All these worlds are yours’. Except China. Attempt no landings there.
