Imagine that your name is Nathan Nabors and that you live in the sunny climes of Orlando, Florida. Imagine further that, back when Google announced its own Android phone and called it the Nexus One, you realized that your Orlando-based life would only be complete with the purchase of this shiny new gadget.

So you bought one, paying the full unlocked price of $563.38 from Google's online store. And, because you already had service with AT&T, you dropped a cool $230 to break that contract. Grand total: $793.38, and that doesn't even include a month-to-month service plan from T-Mobile.

For $793.28, the Nexus One had better change your life—or at least get something above 2G data connectivity. Unfortunately, it didn't do either. 3G coverage could be spotty at best, and the phone couldn't seem to hang onto a 3G signal when it did grab one. So you tried to call Google, except that Google didn't take support phone calls; it might get back to you by e-mail in a couple of days. Infuriating!

Google doesn't offer a refund for the phone, and no software fix for the problems are forthcoming. So what do you do?

If you're the real Nathan Nabors of Orlando, you don't take the law into your own hands, you take Google to court. Nabors has just filed a class action complaint with a federal court in California alleging that Google had deceived him and thousand of others.

Nabors "bought the Google Phone based in substantial part on the uniform advertised claim of the phone having the characteristics of increased data transfer speed and greater performance than was actually provided... Plaintiff received, at best, sporadic 3G speed or connection to a 3G network."

The obvious rejoinder here might be: isn't this a T-Mobile issue? And don't you know that 3G coverage isn't guaranteed?

But Nabors says that the phone is "not fit for its warranted, advertised, ordinary and intended purpose," that it is "in fact defective," and that Google "knew, reasonably should have known, or was obligated to understand" that users would expect decent 3G performance from the device.

The lawsuit asks for attorney fees (of course) and a financial penalty against Google, but it also makes one more unusual request: that Google "undertake an information campaign to inform members of the general public as to the wrongfulness of Google's practices."