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    News - The Google direct phone sales channel experiment fails

    Google?s half-hearted attempt to offer an alternative way of buying mobile phones has been scrapped.
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    Re: News - The Google direct phone sales channel experiment fails

    I like my X10! - Granted was planning on getting a desire but couldn't get stock anywhere in Salisbury and the larger screen did it for me. Shame the 2.1 update is now planned for Q4 2010!!!

    Also don't think you can call the nexus one a failure - I'm sure it was all just a marketing exercise anyway - Google have always know the money is in the advertising!
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    Re: News - The Google direct phone sales channel experiment fails

    It's the sales channel, rather than the device, that's a failure.

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    Re: News - The Google direct phone sales channel experiment fails

    Quote Originally Posted by Scott B View Post
    It's the sales channel, rather than the device, that's a failure.
    Precisely, there was sod all advertising, and Google's website is legendarily unnavigable.

    I guess they figured their customers would somehow accidently Google search 'google phone' instead of somehow presenting it.
    Quote Originally Posted by Agent View Post
    ...every time Creative bring out a new card range their advertising makes it sound like they have discovered a way to insert a thousand Chuck Norris super dwarfs in your ears...

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    Re: News - The Google direct phone sales channel experiment fails

    Dunno how they managed to fail so badly at advertising... if they incorporated it into their homepage logo for a little while, that would have done the trick

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