It is indeed the question that hovers now around the first smartphone from Google since the USPTO, U.S. Patent Office has rejected the application to registrater the mark “Nexus One” for Google.
The cause? The term “Nexus” had already been filed by Integra Telecom.
Google now has 6 months to prepare his defense and try to change that decision.
So What are the solutions that remain if the name “Nexus One” is owned by Integra Telecom?
And today they announce the acquisition of the week, Google bought Picnik.
Picnik is a solution for editing image which is currently used by Flickr (owned by Yahoo) and facebook.
Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames.
Google was born in September 1997. Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the creators. Today Google is one of the best known brands and is the most visited site in the world. A search engine at the base, Google has stepped up its acquisitions and its creations and now offer a multitude of services, from mail (Gmail), the operating system for mobile, Android.
Everyone knows Google, but do you really know Google. The figures below are impressive and gives us a good view of the rapid growth of this incredible company.
Here is Google, the superpower described into one image :
After the Nexus One, Google has another project in partnership with HTC, it would be a touch pad! It since 18 months when the two giants are working on this project and a first prototype could even be unveiled at CES or at the press conference on January 5 for the launch of Nexus One.
We do not know more about this tablet, which obviously would turn in Chrome OS, or even Android if it is launched early this year.
Nexus One from Google using Android 2.1 should be for sale on the 5th of January 2010, in the United States.
The phone itself will be sold exclusively online at Google.
The packages will be provided by the phone operator : T-Mobile.
The price should be something around $ 530 and $ 180 for 2 years of subscription with TMobile.
Here is a video presentation of the first Nexus One, the next Google phone. The phone should be available in early January!
A video of 5 minutes, which quickly presents the phone and its Android OS.
The Google Phone is competitor who could tickle the iPhone in the coming months, until perhaps apple show the next new iPhone. Untill then Nexus One continues to reveal itself gradually in video and in terms of specifications.
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