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Google’s Nexus One start selling in Britain in the next few weeks and France and Germany likely to follow soon.

The touch-screen device, launched on Tuesday and produced in collaboration with Taiwan electronics group HTC, poses a direct challenge to Apple’s top-selling iPhone.

“I can confirm that Vodafone is the first operator to partner with Google to offer the Nexus One in Europe, starting soon in the UK, in a few short weeks,” a Vodafone spokeswoman told AFP.

Customers will be able to purchase a subsidised Nexus One phone with a Vodafone contract. The device will also be available directly through the Google web store.

Google said earlier it had reached “strategic partnerships” with telecom firm Verizon in the United States and Vodafone in Europe. Vodafone added Wednesday that the group was in talks to sell the Nexus One in France, Germany and other European countries this year. “We’re in early discussions with Google to introduce the offer in France (through SFR) and in Germany and Spain, and more European countries are expected during 2010,” the spokeswoman said.

So when is it going to start selling here in Asia?

Read the full article HERE

[Updates] now you can check the Google’s ever first phone here .

And also check out the specification also. The spec is not bad .. or you wanted to know more about a review, click here

For now only US market is available and not sure when Google is going to sell to the rest of the country.

We shall also see how’s the mobile phone industry react to it and the consumer as well.

What a good year to start with, Nexus One is one hell of the hottest news in the start of the year.

If you still do not know what is Nexus One .. try here .

Google is show casing it’s latest/first phone today at CES 2010.

If you can’t wait till the launching, you can go to Engadget to read the review. (picture taken from Engadget)

Well, i came across this interesting report.

The Financial Times reported that India is to block millions of cheap copy-cat Chinese mobile phones and accessories from flooding the market. The handset industry describes them as “time bombs” for their often dangerously poor quality, such as exploding batteries.

The Indian Cellular Association (ICA), the lobby group representing Nokia and other large handset makers in the country, stressed that such phones do not have an “international mobile equipment identity” number, which is a standard component of legitimate phones to prevent their use by terrorists or other illegal groups. The ICA estimates that of the 4 million to 5 million handsets imported into India each month from China, between a million and 1.5 million are cheap replicas. India is the recipient of about 40 percent of China’s replica phone output.

The FT pointed out that Nokia has set up its largest manufacturing facility in the world by employee numbers in Chennai, southern India, with 8,000 people. Mobile handset sales in India in the fiscal year ending in March were worth Rs259bn (USD5.3bn), up 7.9 percent year-on-year. Nokia accounted for about two-thirds of the market.

via GSMA

After you finish reading this and now go through the picture below:-

Do you know which one is the real Iphone?

Actually the left is the real Iphone

But to my personal opinion, the HiPhone on the right is much advance compare to Iphone. This is because the HiPhone is supporting dual sim card and dual standby mode! But unfortunately HiPhone do not support 3G network.