article_snippet: A patent rewarded to Google reads:
article_snippet: Google stopped selling the device in January and moved research to another part of the firm.
article_snippet: Schmidt said 'Google is a big and very fundamental platform for Google,' supporting rumours that a second generation model is in the works.
article_snippet: Google is rumoured to have battery  life, sound quality and an improved display, as well as being cheaper.
article_snippet: Google’s Chairman told The Wall Street Journal that Google technology is too important to scrap, despite the fact that Google stopped selling the controversial device in January and has closed Google Explorer program.
article_snippet: It is a big and very fundamental platform for Google,' Eric Schmidt said. '
article_snippet: We ended its Explorer program and the press conflated this into We cancelling the whole project, which isn’t true. '