This is done because the report sales results are unsatisfactory. VP Engineering, Google’s Andy Rubin has said in mid-May that an online sales model did not achieve the desired results and only create sales channels is very small.

However, Google said, with this dismissal, it does not mean they are out of the smart phone business. Google made the announcement at Nexus One blog that these devices will remain available through partner operators, namely Vodafone in Europe and KT in Korea. Some developers also can get these phones through outlets of Google’s partners, although Google did not provide further specification on this matter.

In the United States, Android has spawned success stories achieved by Motorola. When Motorola brand was not well known as a producer of quality products smart phones, Motorola launched a product called Droid, as collaboration results of Google with Verizon.

Droid release as an answer for people expectation on quality Android product. Beautiful design, solid material, and booming Android images are makes CDMA based Droid discussed everywhere.

The result, according to Time magazine, Droid into the lines of “The Top 10 of Everything of 2009″, number one in the category of gadgets. Apple iPhone 3GS is on the fourth rank.

From this Droid success story, GSM version called Milestone released. Droid in the United States are sold by bundling packages Verizone with price 200 U.S. dollars.

With that price, Milestone Android compete Ericsson with a product called Xperia X10. X10 Xperia is Sony Ericsson’s first Android based product.

Xperia X10 became the first Android based phone that adopts 8.1 megapixel camera, the largest in its class and with 4-inch wide-screen full touchscreen. The brain of X10 is 1 Ghz Snapdragon Quallcomm processor that claims to be the fastest processor.

Xperia X10 face to face with competition against the Milestone. However, it is uncertain whether Xperia X10 is designed to follow the success story of the company’s Android Motorola. Clearly, Sony Ericsson was look confident because, they will release a similar product with different prices, the Xperia X10 and X10 Mini Mini pro, after the X10.

Milestone is believed to interest the fans who have waited a long time and heard Droid success stories.

Milestone still have some advantages, such as the thinnest slider QWERTY phone in the world, which relieved the display screen with a total of 3.7-inch 400,000 pixel resolution, multitouch, pinch and zoom feature, double-tap zoom, full speed web access with support for Flash 10 features, the 5 megapixel camera with dual-LED flash features, autofocus and image stabilization, plus the ability to record quality video DVD.

Embedded processor is a TI OMAP3430 256MB of RAM, a 550MHz CPU. With this processor, there should be no more complaints about slow applications. It also support connection with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, microUSB port standard and GPS receiver equipped with A-GPS.

There is one competitor Milestone, the Nexus One, which is directly produced by Google. Because Google own its  production, of course, there are interesting features from Google itself.

As written in the Android Developers Blog, Google’s development team is intentionally released SDK Android as early as possible prior to 2.1 used a lot of devices on the market. Thus, application developers can be tampered with to create a variety of applications that support.

Although Google calls Android 2.1 release only minor and not too different from 2.0, many additional features offered. Voice recognition, among others, live wallpaper, a new launcher, more home screen, and changes in WebKit. Its loading speed is also much faster than 2.0.

If it’s new Nexus One, other devices made by different vendors have warned using the latest version of the platform is based on open source. Motorola Droid is now using 2.0 also can use it immediately.

In addition to Android SDK 2.1, Google also announced the availability manager that supports USB Nexus One. This facility can be used later to facilitate communication with other devices and accessories such as docking station or PC.