[Semaphor]

I'm pretty sure the directly sold Nexus 4 did quite well in the US, to the point that google had problems with availability.

[2muchcoffeeman]

The availability problems are probably because they made a nice phone, sold it for cheap off contract and never made enough.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_4

Units sold 1 million as of February 2013[3] 3 million as of 2Q 2013[4]

[philwelch]

Nexus isn't a downmarket brand. And it's available through carriers.