As images of the hotly anticipated new Google phone bombard the blogosphere, revelations that it will be named Nexus One have dismayed the family of a famous science-fiction writer.

Isa Dick Hackett, daughter of author Philip K. Dick who wrote the novel that inspired the Blade Runner movie, said in an interview that she was “shocked and dismayed” by reports that the company had named its new smartphone Nexus One.

An image of the 'Google phone' published by a Google employee on Twitter.

The new Google-branded phone will run on Google's own Android operating system, and is expected to be a strong rival to the iPhone.

As president of the arm of Dick's estate that handles film adaptations and the licensing of materials, Hackett told she believed the name had “a very obvious connection” to her father's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which centres on a generation of rogue Nexus-6 robots.