Next version of Nexus will be enterprise phone

LAS VEGAS, USA: Google Inc executive Andy Rubin said on Friday that the next version of the Nexus One phone, which was made by HTC Corp, will be for enterprise users and might have a physical keyboard.

Such a device could potentially pose a competitive threat to BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, which has a strong position in the enterprise cellphone market.

Rubin, the brains behind Google's Android operating system, made the comment during an interview with Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg at an event hosted by the newspaper.

The comment followed Google's announcement earlier this week that it would sell phones direct to consumers via its website.

Google Be Sued Over Nexus One?

Meanwhile, a Telegraph report said that the family of author Philip K. Dick is set to sue Google over its use of the Nexus One name. Dick wrote the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in 1968, the report said. The book, which later served as the basis for the movie Blade Runner, features a series of robots known as Nexus 6 models.

"In my mind, there is a very obvious connection to my father's novel," Isa Dick Hackett, the late author's daughter, has gone on the record as saying. She has apparently sent Google a letter recently telling the company to drop the name or face the consequences.

(With inputs from CIOL)