Smartphone Nexus One comes to Europe

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For the first time over 50.000 Android apps available

 

For the first time, over 50.000 applications are available in the Android market. This is reported by the statistics portal AndroLib, which can show current data on the Android platform. With rapid application growth of up to 9.000 programs per month, Android is also getting closer to Apple's microcosm, which is currently heading towards 200.000 applications.

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Nexus One at Vodafone
Meanwhile, Google has announced that its own Android smartphone Nexus One with

to land in Europe with some delay. Google was able to win Vodafone as a sales partner, which will start selling first in Great Britain on April 30th. While British Vodafone customers can already pre-order the phone, the start of sales for Germany, France, Italy, Holland and Spain has not yet been determined. According to Google, Vodafone wants to start in the said markets very soon.
While the Android platform was able to score points in the market not least thanks to attractive smartphones from HTC and Motorola, Google's own smartphone debut has so far been less successful. In the first two and a half months after the market launch, the Nexus One, also produced by HTC, is said to have been sold just 135.000 times, according to the estimate of the US market researcher Flurry . During the same period, the first iPhone or Motorola's Droid was sold around one million times.
 

Google adapts distribution strategy
Originally, the Google phone could only be ordered via its own Google page, but the company is now likely to have adapted its strategy. Because the Nexus One can be purchased directly in Vodafone branches, via the Vodafone website and by telephone. In any case, the Nexus One is a bargain for new customers in Great Britain. With the contract options currently offered, the Google smartphone is included free of charge.
In view of the sluggish sales figures, it has once again become obvious that entering the smartphone market is not an easy undertaking even for the Internet company, which is used to success. "Google has to sell as many devices as possible as quickly as possible. Failure to do so not only calls into question their own smartphone strategy, but also damages Google's prestigious brand," warns IDC analyst John Delaney in an interview press release. (mh)

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