Google’s Nexus one Shift Into Online Retailing (Update2)

Google Inc.’s Nexus One marks more than the company’s entrance into mobile phones: It propels the Internet search engine into online retailing for the first time.Google yesterday started selling the Nexus One, a phone manufactured by Taiwan’s HTC Corp. that uses the Android mobile operating system. The Mountain View, California-based company will also offer other devices that use Android, such as phones from Motorola Inc. Nexus One will be carried by T-Mobile USA, the U.S. mobile-phone division of Deutsche Telekom AG. The device will be available on Verizon Wireless later this year. The phone is also available without a contract.
Motorola, which already sells phones based on Google’s Android, isn’t concerned about Google’s plan for online commerce, co-Chief Executive Officer Sanjay Jha said at Google’s event. Taoyuan, Taiwan-based HTC, the first company to offer handsets that run on Android, today reported a sixth-straight decline in quarterly profit.