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Nexus One Hands On Review
Mar 11th
“By now you’re probably inundated by news of the Nexus One, an HTC built phone that many dubbed the Google Phone. The Mountain View company stayed true to their word and while they did not manufacture the phone, it is clear they had a heavy hand in its design. The phone is the only one current running the latest and greatest (2.1) Android build and boasts an impressive hardware suite: 1Ghz Snapdragon processor, 11.5mm thick, 5MP camera with LED flash, 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED display, 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth, 512MB RAM, 512MB ROM, 4GB microSD in-box expandable to 32GB.
Many people were looking at this phone as being a game changer, an iPhone destroyer, even after they looked at the specs and saw the leaked videos and images. In the past 10 or so years there have only been two really important phones – the Motorola RAZR and the iPhone became king (2007). I feel like Google never set out to destroy the iPhone overnight. After all, in order to do so, a phone would have to be as revolutionary as the iPhone was three years ago. Clearly this is not the case. With the Nexus One, Google is trying to disrupt the market by giving users more options.”
Google Nexus One review: Firstborn (PDA, Android, tech, news, report, review, "iPhone Repair"
Mar 11th
All droids are equal but some droids are more equal than others. Google it. You’ll get the Nexus One. There are around 50 smartphones and tablets running Android today. That’s right, out of all the offspring they fathered with the Open Handset Alliance, Google finally have one to proudly call their own.
What does it mean? Well, not that the ones we’ve seen so far are some poor half-blood droids but the Nexus One is supposed to be THE thing. For one, it’s the first Snapdragon-powered Android and it shows. The Nexus One is wickedly fast. The WVGA touchscreen is a treat to look at and it’s only the second AMOLED display to find on an Android handset. D1 video is sure to sweeten the deal too, and perhaps so will the Live Wallpapers.
Awash in rumors well before launch, the Google Nexus One was officially revealed in January 2010 and it became available right after the unveiling event. Of course, the first units were to sell only in a very limited number of countries (UK, Singapore and Hong Kong).
Anyway Google are to start shipping their Nexus One through various carriers across Europe, starting with Vodafone this spring. That’s about the time when Verizon subscribers will be getting a CDMA version of the device. Google have a phone to sell, so it’s a fair guess they’ll be seeing to it that everyone can have it. Now, will everyone want to? Let’s see.
Key features:
Quad-band GSM and dual-band 3G support
7.2 Mbps HSDPA and 2 Mbps HSUPA support
3.7″ 16M-color capacitive AMOLED touchscreen of WVGA (480x 800 pixel) resolution
Android OS v2.1 with kinetic scrolling and pinch zooming
Slim profile and some great build quality
Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1 GHz processor
512 MB RAM and 512 MB ROM
5 MP autofocus camera with LED flash and geo-tagging
D1 (720 x 480 pixels) video recording @ 24fps
Wi-Fi and GPS with A-GPS
microSD slot, bundled with a 4GB card
Accelerometer and proximity sensor
Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v2.1
Trackball navigation
Main disadvantages
No DivX and XviD video playback
No Flash support for the web browser (update is on the way)
No smart and voice dialing
Somewhat clumsy camera interface and limited camera features
No dedicated camera shutter key
Non hot-swappable memory card
No FM radio
The soft keys below the display are somewhat unresponsive
The Google phone has HTC fingerprints all over it. We just had the pleasure of the HTC Desire at the WMC and we quite liked what we saw. There’s no reason to expect less of the Nexus One – quite the contrary in fact, a little bit of nepotism only seems right.
The Google Nexus One won’t come with the HTC Sense of course, but who would’ve expected so! The Android 2.1 novelties will keep you busy enough anyway, but the first thing on everyone’s mind will be: Is there any special Google treatment the Nexus One is getting?
The latest of the Androids is in a way the firstborn, for all the good and the bad of it. It’s all in the name really: a name that will open doors but that carries a certain obligation too.
Will the Nexus One raise above its droid siblings or will it get lost in the crowd? That’s the kind of questions we’ll be trying to answer on the pages to come. You’re welcome to join: let’s see what the Google Nexus One is made of (and packed in, as well). Search Engine Submission – AddMe
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HTC Google Nexus One Wallpapers Call Letter Blues
Mar 9th
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Softpedia In fact, I think all these are superior to the iPhone, as it also benefits from the haptic feedback feature. Features like kinetic scrolling and pinch … Nexus One Photo a Day ProjectMar 9th
via rickbucich.com
I’ve been trying to be diligent and take a photo every day with my new Nexus One Android phone to see what I can do with it. Many of the photos are complete rubbish but I’m learning a lot about what the camera is capable of. The one here is my latest and consists of bubbles in a glass of grape juice. I’m posting the images over on a separate blog called the Nexus One Photo a Day Project so the content doesn’t clutter things up over here. Since I’ve been at it for a couple of weeks, thought I should reveal what I’ve been up to. So far, with plenty of light and not too much contrast the camera does a respectable job. Trying to be creative without being able to adjust the aperture is a definite limiting factor. Through the next few months I am hoping to take a handful of shots I might be proud of. A bit of a stretch however considering I am rarely completely satisfied even with my DSLRs. Google Nexus One review: FirstbornMar 8th
All droids are equal but some droids are more equal than others. Google it. You’ll get the Nexus One. There are around 50 smartphones and tablets running Android today. That’s right, out of all the offspring they fathered with the Open Handset Alliance, Google finally have one to proudly call their own.
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