Sprint Nextel, which embraced the Google Nexus One round two months back, has recently announced its decision of scrapping its plans to back the handset – thereby crashing all hopes of a CDMA version of the device in the US.

According to spokeswoman Michelle Leff Mermelstein, Sprint’s reversal on Nexus One comes after the carrier’s decision to back a new phone – the HTC Evo – which it opines would be a better choice for its subscribers. The Evo will be the country’s first handset to run on the new 4G high-speed mobile spectrum.

The Sprint turnaround on Nexus One – the second carrier to have snubbed the handset - closely follows a recent Google announcement that the Nexus One will not be available on Verizon Wireless, the most widely-used US carrier.

Despite the fact that the Google-branded Nexus One is by far the best handset to be using the company’s own Android platform to the fullest extent, the device still is among one of the lowest-selling Android devices, largely because of its unavailability via any external retailer.

Customers desiring to purchase the Nexus One handset have to buy it from Google. com; or with a subsidy from T-Mobile. However, since AT&T also runs on a mobile infrastructure similar to the T-Mobile one, an unlocked version of the Google handset can also be signed up for the AT&T service.