Arrival of the Google Phone: $180 on Contract, $530 Unlocked

My brief assessment: Google's not changing the game today. The Nexus One carried the same price like all the other smartphones: $180 with a T-Mobile contract, or $530 unlocked, both available through Google's online store.  All in all the major blog have already reviewed and played extensively with the Nexus One, so the only mystery was the price unveiled today.  It’s not “free” as lots of people had hoped for given Google’s track record, but it's still a great smartphone at a competitive price that will undoubtedly increase the unstoppable trend of more and more mobile web users in the future. According to one statistic, mobile web users will outnumber regular web users by 2015! We’ll talk again in 2015…