Carphone (UK) And Best Buy (US) To Sell Google’s Nexus.‎

Carphone (UK) and Best Buy (US) have obtained exclusive rights to sell Google’s Andoid software based Samsung’s Nexus S phones in the British and American markets respectively. The Nexus handsets can be used in place of credit cards to make payments in this version.

After the resounding success of Nokia’s Symbian software platform, it is Google’s Android software that is garnering the major market share worldwide, ahead of  Apple and Blackberry, in spite of its late entry into the market just two years ago. By driving the prices downwards, the Android version has created a bang in the smartphone market with sales exceeding a million and a half smartphone units in the very first year with expectations that the size of the market would double next year. The near field communications chip (NFC), introduced in the S phone, by Google’s collaborator Nexus Technologies would provide an open source software application in the S Phone to enable bill payments by tapping the phone on a special terminal.

Earlier Taiwan’s HTC had produced Google’s Nexus one smart-phone, and Samsung had introduced the Galaxy Tab using the same Android technology. Google has reposed a great deal of faith in their resellers by engaging them independently.