Google announced a curvy new smartphone on Monday -- the first gadget to run the newest version of the Android mobile operating system.
Facebook denied a story published this weekend that says the company is "building a mobile phone," but CNET has confirmed that the social-networking giant has reached out to hardware manufacturers and carriers seeking input on a potential Facebook-branded phone.
Google has invested billions of dollars building dozens of different products across a wide swath of the technology industry, from productivity tools to mobile phones to e-commerce.
With the eyes of the technology world squarely on Apple's iPhone 4, Google quietly announced it will stop selling the Nexus One, its first and possibly only foray into the smartphone world.
The Android 2.2 rollout has finally begun, starting with Google's flagship phone, the Nexus One.
Something that has begun to drive me batty in the past few years are the buttons on modern day gadgets.
Google's Nexus One smartphone will start being sold in brick-and-mortar stores, said the company Friday in acknowledging that its experiment with Web-only sales has been a failure.
Barely four months after the launch of its first smartphone, the HTC-built Nexus One, Google's commitment to the device seems to be on the wane.
Let's say you're trying to decide whether to buy a new mobile phone and you like taking photos. The Google Nexus One's 5-megapixel camera has 56 percent more pixels than the iPhone 3GS's 3.2 megapixels, but it's clear the camera isn't 56 percent better.
Google's Nexus One phone may have been one of the most anticipated devices of the last few weeks. But since the smartphone's launch last Tuesday, it has left a string of unhappy customers in its wake.
As 100,000 technology addicts descended upon Las Vegas this week for the Consumer Electronics Show, it's notable that the two most anticipated gadgets in recent memory aren't even being launched there.
Google's new Nexus One mobile phone may be the New Cool Thing, but the family of sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick is alleging that the search giant lifted the device's name straight from an iconic Dick novel without even bothering to pick up one of their fancy new smartphones to ask permission.
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