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Nexus One for Verizon and Vodafone

At today announced that Nexus An event that Google, that Nexus One phone the "first of many devices," says product manager Mario Queiroz Android, and that in the spring of a CDMA version will be Verizon in the U.S. and Vodafone in Europe . The phones will be available to new Google cell phone online shop and is used with a service contract available. It is not clear that the CDMA Nexus One, is at least as an unlocked device.

Save to Google's mobile phone is a branded channel for people who buy Android phones "with or without service," said Queiroz. This is the radical departure from the way most people buy mobile phones in the U.S. today, directly from each carrier, or, in the case of the iPhone in an Apple Store. But even with the iPhone, you have no choice of airline.

Today, you can use a GSM Nexus One with a contract with T-Mobile for $ 179 or buy an unlocked one for $ 529 (Read our report), which on AT & T network (but only on its edge data network, not 3G to use). Google is a supplier phones in the U.S., UK, Singapore and Hong Kong.

The plan is more about the Google mobile phone shop offer more operators in the U.S. and abroad, and to other countries. Google is clear that it is the merchant of record for these phones. More Android phones will, over time on the memory. And while Google is no information on future mobile phones are an obvious opportunity to fill in the Nexus, a family with niche devices on different types of consumers like Palm has targeted with the Palm Pixi.