• PC World, Friday, May 14, 2010 2:44 PM

Online-only sales of the Google Nexus One will soon be no more. On the heels of news that Android phone sales surpassed those of iPhones for the first time in the first quarter of this year. Google announced it is closing the dedicated Web store for the device and discontinuing selling the model direct, which hasn't been good for sales. But don't let this make you think that Google is any less bullish on the Android platfrom than it has been.

Nearly 65,000 Android-powered mobile phones are being shipped every day, according to Google chief executive Eric Schmidt. To boot, the open-source mobile operating system is now being used on 34 mobile devices in 49 countries, Schmidt said at Google's annual shareholder meeting on Thursday. "It looks like Android is going to be either the number one or number two player" in the mobile phone market, he said, according to Agence France Presse. Google now makes its Android software available to various handset manufacturers and sells its own Android-powered smartphone, the Nexus One.

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