Google Stops selling Nexus One

Search giant Google's experiments in smartphone retailing is officially over. Some six month sfter the company launched its first "superphone" (as google called it) the HTC designed Nexus One, it has stopped selling the device through its online strore. "Sorry folks the Nexus One is no longer available for purchase directly from Google" the company announced on its website.

Google had warned users a month back about its plan to shut down the web store, but has promised that it will make the device available to registered developers through a partner.

The company acknowledge that its Nexus One retailing model failed to catch on with customers, but refused to give any figure of the numbers of phones it sold during its brief stint as a phone retailer.