NEW YORK, March 17 (Reuters) - Google Inc's Nexus One smartphone will soon be available to subscribers of Sprint Nextel Corp, the second U.S. wireless service provider to announce an agreement to support the touchscreen phone.
Sprint said on Wednesday it will announce pricing and the availability date soon for the Nexus One. The smartphone is the first that Google is selling directly to consumers and is sold exclusively through the Internet company's website.
The Nexus One is currently available for $179 with a two-year contract on Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA, or $529 without a service plan.
Google launched sales of the phone in January, and sales in the first 74 days have greatly lagged the pace of other handsets such as Motorola Inc's Droid and Apple Inc's iPhone during their initial rollouts, according to a recent report by analytics firm Flurry.
Sprint already carries phones that run Google's Android software made by Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and HTC Corp.
(Reporting by Tiffany Wu and Alexei Oreskovic; editing by John Wallace) (To read more about the media business, visit the Reuters MediaFile blog at http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/) Keywords: GOOGLE/SPRINT (tiffany.wu@thomsonreuters.com; +1 646 223 6142; Reuters Messaging: tiffany.wu.reuters.com@reuters.net) COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2010. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters.
Sprint said on Wednesday it will announce pricing and the availability date soon for the Nexus One. The smartphone is the first that Google is selling directly to consumers and is sold exclusively through the Internet company's website.
The Nexus One is currently available for $179 with a two-year contract on Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA, or $529 without a service plan.
Google launched sales of the phone in January, and sales in the first 74 days have greatly lagged the pace of other handsets such as Motorola Inc's Droid and Apple Inc's iPhone during their initial rollouts, according to a recent report by analytics firm Flurry.
Sprint already carries phones that run Google's Android software made by Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and HTC Corp.
(Reporting by Tiffany Wu and Alexei Oreskovic; editing by John Wallace) (To read more about the media business, visit the Reuters MediaFile blog at http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/) Keywords: GOOGLE/SPRINT (tiffany.wu@thomsonreuters.com; +1 646 223 6142; Reuters Messaging: tiffany.wu.reuters.com@reuters.net) COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2010. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters.
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