For now, we’re planting this one firmly in the “rumor mill” category, and we don’t think we’ll be letting it out any time soon. However, if it’s true, then the folks living in what cell phone industries consider “emerging markets” are reading the best story they’ve read in weeks. Apparently, the folks over at Google think those aforementioned markets deserve their mighty Nexus One device, so they’re going to make that happen. However, it seems that the phone may be losing a few features along the way (unlike the Verizon Wireless model).
As the rumor goes, it seems that HTC (the phone’s manufacturer) has figured out a way to make the Nexus One thinner (consider our eyebrows raised), and apparently the device itself would be considered “downgraded” from the original model announced back in January. From our point of view, that could mean all sorts of things. The phone has a few stand-out features, like it’s 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED display, or its 1GHz Snapdragon processor, or even Android 2.1. So the fact that the emerging market version would be a downgraded model has us scratching our head in wonderment.
Again, this is just a rumor, but stranger things have happened. Getting the Nexus One name out there is a good plan for Google, especially considering they plan to make the Nexus name pretty synonymous with their efforts. Will we see a stripped down, “lesser” version of the Nexus One any time soon? That’s anyone’s guess. Only time will tell, and we have plenty of that, don’t we?
[via Android and Me]
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