Google's groundbreaking model for selling Android phones from a single Web site is about to become history.

Google announced it's pulling the plug on its Nexus One Android Web store. The Nexus One Web store, launched in conjunction with the Nexus One device in January, was designed to give users a one-stop virtual shop to pick up the latest and greatest Android phones. It was meant to mark the start of a new kind of distribution model -- one where you base your decisions on devices rather than on carriers.

That model will soon be no more.

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