Goldman Sachs Slashes Nexus One Sales Forecast to Around 1 Million

An analyst at Goldman Sachs has thrown a wrench into the works of Google's smartphone by downgrading the sales forecast of the Nexus One. Initial expectations were high: analysts had said as many as 3.5 million units would be sold in the first year. But with just 80,000 sold in the first month, according to mobile analytic group Flurry, figures have now been revised down to around a million.

Compare and contrast this with other handsets. The first iPhone took 74 days to hit a million in...