Vodafone Germany may have tipped their hand on a contract price for Google’s Android-powered Nexus One handset. According to the leak, the Nexus One may sell for €149.90 ($217) and will likely require a two-year contract. There is no price leak for the unlocked version yet, but it’s likely to sell for a price similar to that of the U.S. price of $529 and be available directly from Google’s online store.

source: Slash Gear via All About Phones

It might be the faltering economy, or maybe it’s the lack of a robust marketing effort by Google, or even the distraction of CES when it launched — for whatever the reason, Google’s Nexus One has only sold a dismal 20,000 handsets during it’s first week. In fact, according to analysts Flurry, the myTouch sold three times the number of handsets in week one (60,000), the Motorola DROID sold 12.5 times the number of handsets (250,000) and the third iteration of the iPhone sold a whopping 80 times more (1,600,000). Ouch!

Maybe Google will step up advertising and as more people become aware of the Nexus One, perhaps there will be a surge in sales. Regardless of the reasons and the tepid response from consumers in the first week, it is nice to see Google introduce an unlocked, unsubsidized Android-powered handset to the marketplace to give an alternative to those that want to get their ‘droid groove on without being tied to a carrier contract.

source: Android Authority

Not wasting any time after the official announcement of the Nexus One, there’s already work underway in creating a hacked ROM that’ll provide some much loved features. Arch-modder, cyanogen, has gone on the record and promising one of the first tweaked ROMS that’ll offer tethering and multi-touch web browsing. The tethering capability will allow you to do it on either Wi-Fi or wired connections while an additional feature called BusyBox will be thrown on to give other hackers more flexibility for playing with the Nexus One’s underlying code. We’d expect cyanogen is feverishly at pace right now getting this hacked ROM up and running – with a release coming shortly.

source: Twitter via SlashGear