Exclusive: Google Nexus One to launch in April

By Matt Warman, Counsumer Technology Editor Published: 5:44PM GMT twenty-six February 2010

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A program refurbish will move multi-touch capabilities to Google"s Nexus One phone Photo: Reuters

Googles Nexus One, the companys initial own-brand mobile phone, will launch in the UK in April. It will be on sale by Google.com/phone only, as the association has formerly announced. Tariffs have not been announced, but the Nexus One is expected to be labelled really likewise to allied smartphones such as the iPhone.

Built by HTC, the Nexus One is Googles try to claim the supremacy of the mobile handling complement Android, in the face of marketplace prevalence from Apples iPhone and Microsofts revived mobile software, Windows Phone.

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Although the poke giants initial central UK partner, Vodafone, had been penetrating for a launch in March, sources close to both companies have reliable to The Dailythat Apr is when the association will have a picturesque possibility of being ready for the launch.

The Nexus One is surprising since it is accessible online usually approach from Google, and so relies heavily on word of arthropod marketing. Although sales had primarily been reported as delayed in more aged to the iPhone, the Nexus One has not benefited from the poignant graduation that Apple has paid for for the flagship product.

Google released an refurbish to the phone, before long after the American launch in January, that combined the multitouch web browsing that has been so successful on Apples iPhone.

Both Google and Vodafone would usually contend that they were committed to delivering the phone to the UK "in the spring".