Google Teams Up With T-Mobile To Push “Nexus One” Google Phone

We’ve certainly been hearing a lot of talk about the Google phone, now dubbed “Nexus One”. And now we’re learning that Google has teamed up with T-Mobile to push Nexus One some time early next year. The partnership between the wireless carrier and the search giant will not require subsidizing, and according to Peter Kafka of All Things D, “T-Mobile has agreed to actively help push the phone via distribution channels and support infrastructure.”

The Nexus One device is a GSM-only device, making it compatible with both T-Mobile and AT&T. Unfortunately, the device is not compatible with Verizon’s CDMA network, but that’s no matter as Verizon declined to help push the device.

Veering away from the typical “customer-gets-phone-through-the-carrier” methodology, Google envisions users having the ability to purchase the device directly from Google.

Does anyone else remember the last time Verizon declined a partnership? Sure you do — the iPhone, and we all know how that went.

[ via All Things D ]