Nexus One Will Live On as Developer Phone
Google announced that the Nexus One that is no longer available for sale online from Google will continue to live as the latest developer phone.
We’ve always offered unlocked phones for direct sale to registered Android Developers. As of today, the Developer Phone is the Nexus One, at a price of $529. To see the details or order a phone, you need to sign in to your Android developer account and click on the “Development Phones” link.
The Nexus One combines an up-to-the-minute platform (Android 2.2), modern hardware, and the pure Google Experience software suite. It’s a good choice both for people who want to build Android applications using either the SDK or the NDK, and those who want to experiment with modified versions of the Android platform. Note that the Nexus One still ships with Android 2.1 but will download 2.2 soon after you turn it on; make sure you’re near a fast network.
As well as being an outstanding developer platform, it’s a really nice everyday phone; we’re really happy to have connected the right dots to make this happen.
So basically, if you register as a developer for Android (Here) for a $25 registration fee, you can then purchase a Nexus One from Google for the same as their old online price, $529. No options for with contract anymore and also it seems that there is only a T-Mobile 3G version (which will work overseas as well) and no AT&T/Rogers version anymore.
Got to say, if you are going to develop for Android, the Nexus One with Android 2.2 would be the best phone to test it on with it’s unlockable bootloader, ability to root easily, etc.
