Google plans to open a online store to sell directly to consumers tablets, according to a report released by The Wall Street Journal.
The store "online" offer tablets made by Samsung Electronics and Asustek Computer based on Google's Android operating system, the report said, citing unnamed sources.
Google sold a "smartphone" with Android-Nexus-One directly to consumers in 2010, but closed the store at four months claiming that he had not met expectations.
Google now depends retail partners and suppliers to sell Android phones made by a number of manufacturers and the software has become the operating system world number one, ahead of using the iPhone maker Apple, Reuters reported .
But Apple dominates the tablet market with its iPhone, which took two years ago.
Fire tablet Amazon Kindle, which retails for $ 199, works with open source Android, but the device has an interface that does not use as many Google services.
Google may share the brand of some of the tablets sold through the store and has considered the future funding of the cost of tablets, to make them more competitive with the Kindle Fire, according to the Journal. It is unclear when Google plans to open the store.
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