Nexus one was not a big success in sales, it has a bigger success in transforming the Android-sphere. It was the first Android phone to be called a “super phone”. Google used it to introduce new and improved Android 2.0. The rest, as they say, is history.

Rumors are popping up that Google is starting to form new alliance to make the Nexus 2. The source has it that the Carphone Warehouse, will be working with Google as the single retailer for the forthcoming Nexus 2.  The Carphone Warehouse, is Europe’s largest independent mobile phone retailer, with over 1,700 stores across Europe. They are based in the United Kingdom.

If this is true, it means that Google in ready to take Android to the rest of the world and probably attack Symbian bases. While iOS, Blackberry, Android dominate the US, Symbian is still the big market leader in the Europe and the rest of the world.

[Via Android Community]

Touch-screen mobile phones are the latest trend in India, and cell phone manufacturers have captured this new wave by launching several models, priced to suit both common and rich men’s pockets.

With the launch of HTC Android Phone in India (2009) , the existing smartphone market faces a tough competition. Unlike Apple’s iPhone and Nokia’s N97, android is an open-source platform readily available for use and development without Google’s formal involvement. Read more

We always want the best in everything, and apps too. Google is the founder of the android OS, so if a Google committee says an android app is the best in a category, we should all take it from them. Still looking for the best google android apps? The Android Developer Challenge is where Google pinpoint the best apps of the year in some select categories and compensate the developers for their good jobs. And the winners walked away with prices money ranging from $100K-$25K. For the Android Developer Challenge (2), 2009, here are the best android apps winners in their categories, so be sure to download them to your droid, HTC Hero, Eris, Cliq, and other android phones.

Best Android Apps of 2009 (The Google’s Android Developer Challenge Winners)

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Best Education or Reference Apps
Plink Art
Plink Art is an art identifying app that helps you discover and share artworks. When you take a photo of a painting, the app will connect to Plink Art servers to identify it. You also get to browse a library of artwork by keyword or timeline, and share your discoveries with friends. A great app for painting lovers.

Word Puzzle
You daughter or son can study spelling and pronunciation with flash card on your android phone while you are driving him/her to school. Read more

Looking for the best SMS or texting apps for droid, HTC Hero, Eris, Cliq, or android phones in general, look no further. Text messages have become a big part of our lives. Almost everybody knows how to send text messages now. Texting is the one of the fast ways to reach people. It is easy, faster, and comfortable. So comfortable that you can do it in places where making phone calls are not accepted. Texting apps are big on the android market store. As user become interested in free SMS and international SMS, apps are developed with features that follow suite. One of the big apps in this area is Google Voice. Google Voice has completely re-invent the ways people send text messages. You may be behind in time if you are still getting charged by your phone carrier for SMS. Here are the best android apps for SMS or texting.

SMS or texting apps for android phone

Google Voice
Google voice is definitely the leader in this area, it has everything you may need in SMS and more. Check my previous article on the power of Google voice here.

Txeet
Txeet is an app that makes regular texting fun and enjoyable. With Txeet, you can compose SMS with over 3000+ templates, such as miss-you messages, jokes, pickup lines, goodnight messages, happy birthdays, etc.. It also give you access to SMS lingo dictionary for when you are clueless of some abbreviation for example ROTFLMAO, TTYN. The app also insert pure ASCII emoticons for example @}–\-,— to your message for you. Now start styling your messages like never before and have your friends and buddies waiting for more text from you.

SMS Popup
Simple app that shows a pop up dialog when a SMS/MMS is received including the contact photo. Also includes tons of options to customize the notification for incoming SMS

chompSMS
This app is the Android Network Award winner for the best SMS app. Read more

Now is almost certain that Google the “ultimate provider of free services” will have their phone on the market early next year. Google has confirmed that its employees are already testing the phone in house, a process where Google employees test their products before offering it for public users. While awaiting the phone I am filled with high expectations because of the following reasons:

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Google Vs Apple:

This will be the first real head-to-head battle between Google and Apple in hardware. Since coming up with Iphone, Apple has effectively triumphs every cell phone and smartphone manufacturer in both revenue and possibly sales. They did so while also expanding the cell phone userbilities. We now expect more from our cell phones far beyond making and receiving calls. Apple transformed the cell phone business. Google has proven to be a software expert, can they explore their software knowledge to push the limit of what Apple has shown us that smartphone are can do? I hoping that the Nexus will have 2 maybe 3 new hardware, software concept that has not be being explored before, and few of improvements on the old features.

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Google Voice and Video Streaming:

Google will have the ultimate decision in implementing the Google Voice in this case. I will also be expecting googlers to have prepared a perfect recipe for effective implementation of Google voice on the Nexus one. Google went shopping recently: acquiring On2 a video compression technology company. Will they use this new technology to improve video chat and video call, after all this technology must useful for something. They also acquired Gizmo5, expert in VoIP service. Google Voice + Gizmo5 (VoIP) + easily accessible WiFi + Google business Module (Free) >= Free VoIP. This could easily hurt the business of major cell service providers (at&t, sprint, and Verizon), and also change the cell phone business.

Lets us all cross our arms and wait patiently, but truth be told, anything short of an improvement on the Iphone plus a few extra free services will be a disappointment to me.

Seems like Motorola+Google had finally granted our wishes for a good android phone, one that can really put up a fight against the almighty iphone. However the Droid and the rest of the android phone family are still shorthand on apps. So during this holiday season be thoughtful in wishing for an app as the android market grows. I wish for a football game app. Having a mini Madden on my droid be great, what app do you wish for?