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Google Has No Plans for Second Own-Branded Smartphone
Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO has suggested in an interview that there wont be a second Google branded mobile phone to replace the Nexus One when its shelf-life expires.
Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, he said that the launch of the HTC supplied Nexus One smartphone was a project to help boost the Android operating system, and wasn't an attempt to capture a sizable marketshare in the hardware market.
Schmidt says: "The idea a year and a half ago was to do the Nexus One to try to move the phone platform hardware business forward. It clearly did. It was so successful, we didn't have to do a second one. We would view that as positive but people criticised us heavily for that. I called up the board and said: 'Ok, it worked. Congratulations - we're stopping'."
Google is currently activating around 160,000 new Android based smartphones each day, equivalent to 4.8m a month. At those numbers, roughly 15m Android smartphones would be sold every quarter, compared with a worldwide total of 54m sold in the first quarter of 2010, according to the research company Gartner.
On the web: Daily Telegraph
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