Google to offer stripped down Nexus-one: Will people go for it?

Google has always been successful in creating hypes. It may gain initial hype among the technocrats and the early adaptors of technology. The trimmed down version would be discouraging but yes it will definitely gain attraction of crowd given with the features,price and brand name  "Google".

Lets have a brief look at the history.

This didnt happen wih when android was first realesed with HTC ,the net went crazy and called HTC's move a big failure ,Android was critized was lack of killer apps and the only benchmark was iphone. Now things have changed .

this didn't happen till android 2.1 came ,till Google acquired admob , till Google's voice based tech was mature enough to power voice searches , enable google navigation and enter the GPS market etc .. ITs only when 1GHz processor come ,andoird 2.1 came , and this signals that their is something cooking up with this line of phones .

Perhaps it might become a free phone with or without google voice and will give you ads in return specific to your search history which might be free .Now how coool will this be given the fact that we still have to pay atleast 1ps /sec ??

or atleast it will increase the net penetration and revenue for Google for the number of searches people will do :)

coming to the question, People will go for it either beacuse of the price ( or ignorance )and the brand name Google  and the ones who love and believe in android but can't afford the huge prices especially in  india .These two categories will choose this phone .

In country like INDIA which is having a thick market where ppl are very tend to try new things expanding/investing less its a very good strategy .

People will go for it. Always there is huge expectation from people for the new products.. so people will go for it they don't mind abt the less features.

people here have a very big heart, in accepting anything they get.