Anthony1

I do think you have a point. The Nexus 1 is a good phone, a colleague of mine has one, but it's been so undermarketed that I sometimes wonder why Google even bothered. Maybe it was just a vehicle for Google dipping their toe in the phone market and gently testing the water.

I also think that the basic premise of the phone wasn't really that viable. Google's idea was to sell a phone that was sim free and not tied to any carrier, which sounds great, but the truth is that there aren't that many people prepared to throw down £/$400 on a phone. We're still tied in to the idea of apparently getting phones free when we sign up to a contract.

As you mentioned there's talk of the N1 coming to Vodafone, and maybe other carriers, but this kind of defeats the whole purpose of Google's original idea...especially when those carriers have alternative, and potentially better phones coming along at the same time anyway; such as the Desire.

Still, if in a few months time we find that the N1 is getting updates quicker than all the other Android phones, because it's directly supported by Google, then we may see a gradual shift toward it or it's successor in future. I'm not convinced though.