Google to host Android press event on January 5

“Google will host an Android press gathering at its global HQ on Jan. 5. Presumably, the event will have something to do with the company’s Nexus One, an Android phone that Google plans to sell on its own Web site and perhaps through T-Mobile as well,” John Paczkowski reports for AllThingsD.

“By scheduling the event just two days before the start of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company would seem to be taking a page from the Steve Jobs’s playbook–sucking some air out of the annual event. Remember, Apple upstaged CES in a very big way back in 2007 when it announced the iPhone,” Paczkowski reports. “It appears that Google is attempting something similar here.”

Full article, with a copy of the media invite, here.

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