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July 6th, 2010 
Ed B. Google was optimistic that they could revolutionize the Smartphone buying experience by developing their own online device store. This is where they began selling the Nexus One, however the heavy hitting carriers fought back and Google opted to fold up shop when Sprint and Verizon backed out.
Things are not looking good for a Nexus Two according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt who was quoted saying:
“The idea a year and a half ago was to do the Nexus One to try to move the phone platform hardware business forward. It clearly did. It was so successful; we didn’t have to do a second one. We would view that as positive but people criticized us heavily for that. I called up the board and said: ‘Ok, it worked. Congratulations – we’re stopping’. We like that flexibility; we think that flexibility is characteristic of nimbleness at our scale.”
The horizon is grime for the possibility of a Nexus Two or Android Dev Phone 3; however Google must still be considering putting out a device that pushes the envelope like the Nexus One did. If not then what will developers do for the expansion of future version of the Android OS? Maybe we will see a device showing up around of Google’s next key Android release, Gingerbread.
Source: androidandme
