{"id":141029,"date":"2010-01-05T13:57:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T18:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5440698"},"modified":"2010-01-05T13:57:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T18:57:25","slug":"google-opens-an-online-storefront-for-android-phones-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/141029","title":{"rendered":"Google Opens an Online Storefront For Android Phones [Android]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since launch, Android has descended into a confusing soup of hardware manufacturers, carriers and software versions, while Google has watched, helplessly. Starting today, they’re taking Android back<\/em>: Google’s selling Android phones through a unified store<\/a>, starting with the Nexus One<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Aside from the best-in-class hardware, the potential for newness with the Nexus One (hands-on here<\/a>) was centered around how they’d sell it. And they have taken a fresh approach with the Nexus One, to an extent: This is the first Android phone sold directly by Google. They’ve opened a new store, from which they plan to sell Android phones from a variety of carriers and manufacturers—Verizon is up next, presumably with the Droid—and which will serve as a single, unified storefront for basically every Android phone on the market. It’ll be a way for people who want to buy one of those “google phones” they’ve heard about—by which they mean an Android phone—from a storefront that lets them compare not just hardware, but carrier and pricing options.