The Nexus One was made by HTC, basically a rebadge of their Desire handset. The Nexus S that Google have been showing off but not yer announced is basically the Samsung Galaxy S.
So either Google was never in that game, or they're still in it depending on definitions.
I see! When Google stopped selling the Nexus One to end users there was speculation that they were done branding handsets. Guess it was just speculation.
So either Google was never in that game, or they're still in it depending on definitions.