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Will Nexus One Google Phone Challenge the iPhone? I Doubt It

It seems like every three - four months there is a new smart phone that comes out that is debated as the iPhone killer. A few months ago I wrote a post about the Verizon Droid and its commercials claiming that everything the iPhone doesn't do, Droid does. Well, this time around it's the Nexus One Google Phone that is being put up against the iPhone as analysts talk about whether the Nexus One can wrestle away some market share away from Apple's iPhone.

In the CNN Money video below Michael Copeland runs down the features of the new Nexus One Google Phone. Although there seems to be a few cool features that the iPhone doesn't have, for example voice activated everything, I don't see the Nexus One putting a big dent into iPhone sales. First of all, service for the phone is currently only available through T-Mobile which prevents anyone tied into an AT&T or Verizon contract from upgrading to the Nexus One. Secondly, the Google Apps that are available through the new phone will have less than one fifth of the applications of Apple's App Store.

The upside for the Nexus One is that Verizon is set to have it available in the spring and that as Michael Copeland states it "is a gateway drug to Google". So Nexus One users will have the benefit of the power of Google and all it's applications. We'll have to wait and see whether that is enough to outweigh the over 100,000 apps that the iPhone offers.

The Nexus One Google Phone will initially only be offered online for a price of $529 without a contract or $179 with a contract through T-Mobile. What do you think? Will the Nexus One challenge the iPhone or will it be yet another smart phone left in the wake of Apple's iPhone?