Google announced today that they are closing the Nexus One web store, six month after it was first launched and one day after the announcement of Second Quarter 2010 financial results. Nexus One web store seems to failed to live up to Google’s expectations.

Google officially launched Nexus One back on January 5, 2010 at a price of $529 without a plan or contract, or a subsidized $179 when purchased with a T-Mobile two year contract.

It was first introduced as a “Superphone” with Android 2.2, 5.0 megapixel auto-focus camera with LED flash and digital zoom, GPS receiver, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, and 802.11b/g  WiFi capabilities, in addition to a 3.5 inches multitouch-capable touchscreen and a 1 GHz Qualcomm  QSD 8250 Snapdragon ARM processor.

Nexus One will continue to be available sold by partners in Europe, Korea, and possibly other markets in the future, and Customer support will still be available for current Nexus One customers.

The good news however is for Android developers, since Google will be offering the Nexus One through a partner for sale to registered developers.  Visit the Android Market Publisher site and log into your developer account to purchase a Nexus One.

Two years ago, Google revealed the open handset alliance, or the Google’s initiative to dominate the mobile market. The idea sounds crazy for many observers, but since there is a giant called Google behind it, everything is possible. An open source mobile operating system is not something new, many other initiatives are there even before OHA but nobody talk about then … Google knew how to make everybody talk about their Android and it was obvious for everybody that a Google phone is coming someday…

That day is today, and Google have just announced officially the availability of their Nexus One phone the new “Superphone” where “Web meets phone”. That’s already two slogans to market the new nexus one, it’s a Superphone, forget about smartphones. It’s also a new Web experience for mobile users and people who still new to Android.

The hardware is pretty attracting : Thinner and lighter than iPhone, automated brightness adjustment , amazing sensors, noise canceling headphones, 5 megapixel camera with flash and autofocus, … and get ready to see all of these features running under Google Android 2.1 !

There are some downs for Nexus One since Android still missing some features mainly the multi-touch support, the Nexus One screen is amazing but seems to be very gourmand in energy so stay near charger or avoid using full-brightness screen all the time.

Google Nexus One is already available at http://www.google.com/phone/

The unlocked edition is available at $529 in US, UK, Hong Kong and Singapore. T-mobile provides also an unlocked edition of Nexus One at $179 with a $80 monthly plan including  500 minutes/unlimited SMS/unlimited data. You can still get the T-mobile version without any plan by paying an additional $379 !This is the Google phone number One, and there will be certainly more Android phones coming in 2010.

The mobile market war is not only about Android and iPhone, many other mobile giants are already in the market including Nokia with their Symbian OS, MSFT with Windows CE, Palm with their amazing WebOS… We don’t forget also that Google have just acquired Admob, the largest mobile advertising network, for $750 million.

If 2009 was the year of Android, what do you think about 2010 ?!