Google is forced to postpone the release of its flagship smartphone Nexus One in Europe for at least a month. Earlier, Europe’s biggest mobile phone operator Vodafone planned to start selling smartphone in two weeks, but now the company’s website states that the appearance of the certified version of the Nexus One can not wait until the second half of April.
exact cause postponement release is not yet known. In Vodafone only say that the work associated with the start of sales, do not go as smoothly as one would like. According to independent experts, the main problem with the delivery to the fact that the parties can not establish a normal technical support, as much as before Google announced that it will in some markets itself to sell this machine, but now on a number of international destinations arise classic deal with subsidies from the operators and the question of who and how new items will provide technical support is not yet resolved.
Previously, Google has relied on the support of at least an e-mail, but European operators have requested the company to establish a telephone support, which will operate at a convenient for Europeans, while differing from California for 7-8 hours.
In addition, experts say that any delay in the promotion of Nexus One clearly plays into the hands of competitors. First of all, HTC, also sells phones based on Android. Previously, the company announced the imminent debut on the European market, the new android-smartphone Desire and updated version of the HTC Legend. According to many industry observers, the latest smartphone is almost identical in function Nexus One, but has a more interesting and unusual design.
to the HTC Desire also claimed a number of unusual innovations, for example, an optical trackpad. Sold in Europe, the device will be primarily through the networks of Orange and T-mobile, said CyberSecurity.
adjusted its forecast for sales of Nexus One and the analytical unit of the bank Goldman Sachs, where at the beginning of the year were confident that Google this year will sell 3.5 million smartphones. Now Goldman Sachs published data, which says that the company is unlikely to sell more than 1 million smartphones.
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