The first Strand cubesat currently in development will incorporate a Google Nexus One Android phone.
Two of the newest mobile phones, Google's Nexus One and Motorola's Droid, both use MEMS microphones in this way.
Oh, sure -- a few people have called Google's Nexus One a "superphone, " but suddenly, that nickname has taken on a whole new level of meaning.
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Google's Nexus One has dreamt of space travel for a while now, but on Monday it was finally launched into orbit aboard a CubeSat dubbed STRaND-1, which was developed by Surrey Satellite Technology and the University of Surrey's Surrey Space Centre.
However, Nexus One failed to impress and Google announced that it will no longer sell Nexus One through its online store.
Google can integrate mobile versions of Google Apps with the Nexus One and potentially provide bundled pricing of Nexus One phones along with apps.
Mr. Rubin has faced some challenges at Android, including a short-lived 2010 effort to sell the Google-branded HTC Nexus One smartphone directly to consumers and an aborted effort last year to sell a music-streaming device called the Nexus Q Google's first in-house consumer-hardware project.
Google offered no customer service or support when it sold the Nexus One phone on the Google website.
With the Nexus One phone, Google also presented a direct sales model that revamped current distribution systems.
The latest version is optimised for use with the latest and most popular smartphone handsets including the Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X and Google Nexus 4.
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We know you're itching to get your hands on a Nexus One -- Google's managed to build buzz here the way only a couple companies in the world know how.
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Google unleashed not one but two amazing Nexus tablets upon the world, plus another great Nexus smartphone.
This week, Flurry analytics estimated that Google has sold just 135, 000 Nexus One handsets after 74 days.
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We believe that business adoption of Google Apps can help sales of the Nexus One phone to business customers.
After a weeks of speculation, leaks, confirmation and a sneak peek from my colleagues here at Engadget, Google finally told the story of the Nexus One.
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Both Google and HTC have said they consider the Nexus One a success despite its reportedly weak sales.
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Google flirted with this integrated approach with their Nexus One phone.
Google also entered the handset business with its Nexus One device.
Recently, some observers have questioned the show's relevance at a time when tech giants such as Google and Apple -- witness Tuesday's Nexus One launch -- can get massive media coverage for product announcements whenever they want.
Google entered the smartphone market in January 2010 with the launch of Nexus One.
For example, the Nexus One when released was capable of running apps like Google Earth that devices such as the Droid could not, because it ran Android 2.0, not 2.1.
In fact, Google doesn't even have to make a profit on the Nexus One -- all the company has to do to is get people to be on the Internet more, Parr said.
Overall, however, Google and Asus have produced a very good tablet in the Nexus 7, one I can recommend.
Google began rolling out its new mobile operating system, Android 2.2, to Nexus One phones on Thursday, and a beta version of fully-functional Flash is available for it.
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Of course, Google wants to provide another option for text input that we haven't seen before the Nexus One.
Once considered a no-go because of late CEO Steve Jobs' statements that a smaller tablet wouldn't work, observers increasingly think Apple could offer one to compete with emerging competitors like Amazon's Kindle Fire and Google's Nexus 7.
Until last September it looked as though Apple, the company that created the tablet market, was pretty secure in its dominance in the UK. Sure, there were any number of Android devices, including Google's own impressive Nexus 7, but the 10in (25.4cm) iPad remained the one that most consumers aspired to own.
And in case you don't log onto the online store, you can check out the phone on Google's home page, which rarely features ads but which now showcases a prominent plug for the Nexus One.
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