According to a Wired report, Internet search giant Google revealed on Tuesday that the launch of its June-unveiled `Nexus Q' music- and video-streaming device is being delayed because the company apparently needs time to "work on making it even better."

The Nexus Q - the spherical black media device which Google manufactured in the US - marks Google's first attempt at developing its own hardware. The launch of the device, which will play music as well as video from Android devices, is being delayed because Google intends adding more functionality to the hardware before it is released to the general public.

Apparently, it is Google's distinctive area of expertise - the software - which needs to be improved in the company's Nexus Q music device. The company revealed that while "the industrial design and hardware were met with great enthusiasm" by the Google I/O attendees who had been handed out the device for early preview, their initial feedback was that Nexus Q should "do even more than it does today."

With the launch of the $299-priced Nexus Q now having been officially delayed and Google has stopped taking orders for it, customers who had already pre-ordered the streaming-media player will still have the device shipped to them from the existing stock; that too, for free.

Thanking the preorders of Nexus Q for their "early interest," Google said in a Tuesday email to them: "We'd like to extend the Nexus Q preview to our pre-order customers and send you a free device."