Google HTC Nexus One out of stock

By on Aug 20, 2010 at 8:45 AM
General August 20, 2010

First Google killed the HTC Nexus One, then resurrected it for developers, and now the phone is just plain-old out of stock. In a quick blog post today, Google wrote:

A couple of weeks ago, we arranged that registered developers could buy an unlocked Nexus One via their publisher page in Android Market. We think it’s a good development platform and a nice phone. Apparently, you agree. Somewhat too many of you, in fact; we blew through the (substantial) initial inventory in almost no time, and they’re back-ordered from HTC, who are doing a pretty good job of managing runaway success amid a worldwide AMOLED shortage. Everyone appreciates that it’s important to the platform to get phones in the hands of developers, so we’re working hard on re-stocking the shelves; stand by.

If you have a Nexus One, hold it close. If you yearn for a Nexus One… absence makes the heart grow fonder. No?

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  • Mr. Blackberry

    Good riddance

  • bringit

    Hell of a score by HTC getting the Nexus One. Put them on the map.

  • TedP

    I think he meant ‘It’ put them on the map.
    Bring on the Nexus Two. Black metal case and trackpad this time.

    • bringit

      yes.

  • tech junkie for life

    Fear not, the G2 is coming!

    • Kesey

      Except it’s not coming from Google direct and will suffer the same painful wait for OS updates.

      • Rooty

        One word *Root*

      • B

        It likely will run vanilla Android with no custom skins on top, just like the G1, and will be the closest thing to a Google phone since the Nexus One. I wouldn’t be surprised to see it get updates promptly. Actually, with the Nexus One gone now, and with Google focusing on their own UI, we might not see heavy skinning (if at all) after Gingerbread releases.

  • Perspective

    So long to the “superphone.” hey, does that mean it’s a superfailure? Remember, this phone was going to change the way phones are bought and sold, and yet its gone less than 8 months after launch. Hmmm. . Wasn’t Google Wave suppose to change collaboration, and now its gone too? Makes you wonder how much GoogleTV will change TV, and just how many months it will ultimately last.

    • X Glansburg

      You can only change so many of Apple’s concepts and products. I think Google is finding out that they need at least one original idea, let alone a successful one.

      • RealDeal

        Fanboy much? You act as if Apple invented the tocuhscreen phone. Newsflash: they didn’t! They just improved it.

        And how can you possibly suggest Google has had no successful ideas to date?

      • X Glansburg

        Never said they invented it. But they made it viable and desireable in the market today. Since then they have a lot of imitaters, which is fine. I personally own a phone that is the resulting benefit of copying an iPhone and trying to one up Apple.

        In fact, Verizon even went as far as to advertise the whole Droid line as something that allegedly does stuff one phone, the iphone, did not…rather than try to sell the Droid line on their own merits. So when you have to bring up a competitor to sell your product, you are a knock off.

      • WalterSobchak

        Or it shows you how dumb/uneducated people are. Those same people they are marketing that to, call every mp3 player an ipod.

      • RT

        I love how people dont realize or ignore the fact that apple gets 99% of their ideas from others, they just improve them. This whole idea that apple comes up with original ideas is hilarious.

      • LCW

        execution is 99% of it though… a good idea is shit if it’s poorly executed… apple has proved this…

      • Mr. Bill

        Yes, they have a couple recent examples of just that.

      • RT

        oh i totally agree with you and until recently apple did a much better job of executing it. And i give them absolute credit for that. Im just tired of all these fanboys who think that every apple idea is original and that everyone is just stealing apples original ideas.

      • Darwin

        You would have to be really ignorant to say that.

    • RealDeal

      Unsubsidized phones only make sense if you can get a cheaper rate plan to make up for the cost you paid up front. No carrier has plans based around that, so you end up spending the same amount monthly as some guy that just got $500 knocked off the price of his phone. It was bound to fail.

      • LCW

        actually T-Mo (US) does…. called Even More Plus… about $20 cheap per month than the subsidized Even More plans… you can get the EMP plan if you don’t buy a subsidized phone from T-Mo…

      • webby

        … Except that if you get a T-Mo corporate discount (which my wife and I do), corporate discounts do NOT apply on the T-Mo Even More Plus plans.

        So for anyone who gets a corporate discount, there is absolutely no benefit to switch from T-Mobile’s Even More to the Even More Plus plans.

      • Ace Of Space

        You aren’t getting it. It’s not just the cost of a plan. It’s the mandatory plan add-ons you have to have when you buy a subsidized phone….It’s the lack of freedom to change plans or carriers whenever you want without getting bent over by the carrier.

        If I buy an unlocked phone with WiFi then I have the choice and power NOT to have the data plan shoved down my throat just cause I bought the phone from the carrier.

        Google found out that the subsidized phone is one one of the biggest con jobs in the The U.S Consumer World. But it is here to stay and even the mighty Google could not compete against the con.

        The carriers make their $$$$ off the plans, not the phones. They basically give away the phones because they have to make people think it’s a better deal then buying unlocked.

        They tap into the typical American’s unquenchable lust for instant gratification. Walk out with a nifty new phone for nothing…..worry about paying the bill later.

    • http://www.hagrin.com z6

      I agree that the distribution model was quite optimistic from google. Assuming that carriers would play ball was highly unrealistic. They have operated the same way for years and they will not cease control that easily.

      • Darwin

        It will be the same with the vaporware Google TV. Why Google announces such things so early is beyond me. Arrogance I guess. Anyone who thinks the cable companies are going to give up ad revenue to Google is dreaming.

    • Mr. Bill

      I would definitely nominate you for one of the years SuperTroll awards.

      Apparently, your feature phone does not keep you entertained enough.

  • Big Papi

    I have my N1 and you have to pry it from my death grip to get it from me…I’m still enjoying super fast speeds, Flash 10.1 (no beta), awesome internet, camera and wide range of apps. The screen is beautiful with the only drawback being the sun as its biggest villian. Either way, me and my wife will be hanging on until the Nexus 2 comes out with the same exact business model…I wish RIM and other hardware giants sold their phones directly…

  • Darwin

    The touchscreen on this phone sucks. It came out before multi-touch was enable on Android. I mean copied from Apple.

    Add it to the following list of Google failures.
    Answers, Base, Buzz, Catalogs, Dodgeball, Jaiku, Knol, Lively, Notebook, Orkut, Sidewiki, the Nexus One, Google Video, Wave, ad naseum

    • Mr. Bill

      You forgot, Darwin, on that list of failures.

    • WalterSobchak

      How dare they try to come up with new shit or approaches. This country was founded on one way, one religion, one ford vehicle, one tv, one tv station, one computer, one website, one search engine for that website, one social networking, ONE COMMON GOAL!! Oh and 1 eyephone model for all of the world!

      Do you people hear yourselves talk? You’re so boring.

      • B

        People enjoy seeing others “fail” and make missteps through life. It’s disgusting.

  • Glenn

    Anyone that calls the Nexus One a failure have a) never used one and b) are unfamiliar with the expectations Google set for it. They didn’t expect it to sell a million in two days (iPhone), or hugely overestimate its selling potential (Blackberry Torch). They set low expectations for it, and were pretty much passive in the whole implementation. Hell, they didn’t even really market it outside of the google homepage and web ads. From there point of view, the Nexus One is a success. Even today, 8 months after its release, it still is one of the most powerful phones on the market. Add to the fact that it gets everything first, is stock android (which now, with froyo, doesn’t need to be skinned IMO), and is THE developer phone, I’d say its a huge success. Sales wise? Perception wise? Maybe not, but in the eyes of Google, it is.

    • JL

      And I’d be willing to bet the N1 will be the first device to get Gingerbread – agree with your observations, most definitely!

      • JL

        I admit to being biased though – I got a Nexus One a month after they were made available, still enjoying the experience very much!

  • JL

    Well, I guess the rumors about the “death” of the Nexus One were greatly exaggerated – It is an ideal device for Android development and it did accomplish what Google set out to do – establish a reference platform for Android devices – Just look at what has come out since the N1 was released (Evo 4G, Droid X, Samsung’s Galaxy S devices..)

    • MarsBar

      One post per article pleaze..

  • patrick

    Kudos glans. Apple invented the app launcher. What of apple has google copied? Almost everything people brag about the iphone doing is thanks to third party apps, not native apps.

    • len

      And the “app launcher” looks like Palm OS circa 1998.

  • Glenn

    @JL

    I got one around the same time you did. Never enjoyed a phone so much. However, on engadget they have a few pics of the G2, and its looking pretty good. Might be enough to pry the N1 from my hands, but its gonna have to be completely badass to do so

    • JL

      I saw the G2 pix on engadget as well – Judging from the specs and look of the G2, (btw the G1 was my first Android device, snagged one as soon as T-Mobile started selling them! LOL) I thought to myself “It’s a Nexus One with a physical keyboard and optical trackpad/ball” and I mean that with the utmost respect.. Kinda has me getting that “want” feeling too! I won’t lie, I am a fan of physical keyboards…

  • patrick

    @darwin. You fail to realize that you listed fifteen apps from google that you think failed. But as any inverter/developer knows you have to go through the bad to achieve the great. So don’t blame google for trying. At least they do. You also fail to mention their successful apps, of which there are about thirty. Go to google.com/apps and see if their are any useful apps there. Then go to chrome find something on the web that you like, hit the send to phone button…oh wait, you can’t. Lol. One small step backward for evolution.

  • patrick

    @glansberg
    You are right to a degree.
    If their was a viable alternative to gasoline, wouldn’t you have to market it initially as the anti-version. But now that android has established itself as a viable if not better option, I haven’t seen a commercial from verizon or anyone else mentioning the iphone in comparison. Seems if they did that now they would cheapen the brand. But I get your point.

  • patrick

    @ernie
    Who build apple products and where? It ain’t in america.

    • Organ Harvester

      It’s the the good ol’ People’s Republic of China!

  • BrianW

    Im going to go out on a limb here and say in my own experiences both apple and motorola have better build quality than HTC ( i’ve owned the N1 and DI) with that being said, i do believe the only thing the N1 has going for it is that its a google phone and will receive updates first.

  • walt

    I’ve tried lots of other phones lately (galaxy S included) and I always go back to my N1. I have no touch screen issues and everything on it just simply works. I don’t use a task killer and it’s never slow. I will have 3.0 before many others even have Froyo and that’s pretty sweet. Build quality is excellent and it feels like an expensive phone vs a piece of plastic.

  • JFA

    i have one. :) . love the darn thing. Good thing i got mine a few months ago before Google killed it, resurrected it, and then went through a back order.

  • cam

    Nexus is by far the best phone out…fast updates DIRECT from Google ( Gingerbread is coming soon ) I’ve been on Froyo for like 3 months already, its the “Dev” phone come on. Was NEVER meant to sell a lot. I havent met another Nexus owner in the wild ever and I like it that way, Everybody and they Grandma is walkin around with an iPhone haha..And for all the people who say the Google online store failed haha you just couldnt afford it so next time save your pennies..

  • Lulu

    Don’t worry, just purchase a T-Mobile USA HD2 and go to http://www.mobileunderground.info/showthread.php?t=704&page=1 Install the new upscale Android Compatible Multimedia Super ROM. Now go over to XDA-Developers and install the latest Nexus One Build, now you will have a superior G1&2 on a big 4.3″ screen, it will be better than anything Google has ever made… Plus you will save dollars and cents, works like a charm….

  • DroidSucks

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