After Apple won a patent dispute between Apple and Google regarding the search function, Google has ceased selling the smartphone on its Play store.
Google and Samsung were both barred from selling several devices, including the Galaxy Nexus smartphone and Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, after a judge refused to lift the injunction against the Nexus earlier this week. Google, which sold the phone through its Google Play store, has since changed the phone's availability to "coming soon."
That update will remove on-device search functions. This will happen for all Galaxy Nexus devices sometime next week. An over the air update will remove the search feature, along with several others (already expected to be removed in the Jelly Bean Android 4.1 update).
Unfortunately for current Galaxy Nexus owners who aren’t using the developer build of Android 4.1, losing the search feature will be a required downgrade. The feature in question specifically allows you to find applications and documents through a multi-search tool which searches both online and in the phone’s database.
It's not a groundbreaking loss, but it is a loss nonetheless.
Source : ign[dot]com
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