It is already the byword for searching the internet but now Google has launched its first piece of own-branded hardware - with a new smart phone called the Nexus One. Benjamin Cohen reports.
Two years ago; the day before the press launch of the Consumer Electronic Show (CES), Apple announced the launch of the iPhone. An announcement that overshadowed the rest of the show.
Today it seems that Google have done the same with the announcement of the Nexus One, a mobile phone manufactured by HTC but designed to a Google specification using the Android operating system which is being sold direct to customers by Google.