Nexus Two? No...Nexus S

Last year Google launched the Nexus One – a mobile phone created in partnership with HTC (long the favoured mobile phone manufacturer of The Ninja). The Nexus One was intended to provide a pure Android experience, offering the finest iteration of the open source software and hardware a user can find. It was also expected to offer a unique retail approach whereby users could buy an unlocked handset directly from Google themselves, avoiding contracts and then pick their network of choice.

This did not turn out to be as radical a concept as they had hoped but the device itself was warmly received and treated with reverence by all who used it. With Android growing rapidly in popularity, it was seen as the premier option and received preferential treatment in terms of updates of the operating system, receiving Android 2.2 (codenamed ‘Froyo’) well ahead of any other devices.

Now it seems that a new edition is on its way – a Nexus Two. It will land in the coming weeks and will feature Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). In a small change, it will be made by Samsung and should help push the operating system further ahead in this highly competitive market which has long be heralded as the future of computing. It will be interesting to see what impact it has…