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The Google Nexus One
Mar 5th
I just recently switched from a T-Mobile G1 to a Google Nexus One and I have to say that I have been completely blown away with the Nexus One. There is just so much to love about this phone that i felt compelled to express my love in list form. With that being said, here are 8, of the many, reasons why I love the Nexus One.
1. Design- The Nexus One is a sleek, beautiful device with a magnificent 3.7″ AMOLED touchscreen display that dominates the front of the phone. The phone is incredibly slim, slightly slimmer than the iPhone 3Gs, and has a nice weight and a sturdy feel. Basically it looks and feels like it’s of the highest quality.
2. Talking- It’s often easy to forget that high-end devices like the Nexus One are actually telephones because they do so much more than just make calls. But the Nexus One is actually a great phone to actually talk on. It feels great in the hand when being held to your ear and the sound on both ends is fantastic. The main reason is that HTC incorporated two microphones into the Nexus One. One for talking and one for noise cancellation. Brilliant and effective.
3. Display- As I mentioned earlier, the Nexus One is packing one of the best displays the you’ll see on a cell phone. 3.7″ of AMOLED brilliance makes watching YouTube, browsing the internet and playing games a joy. The size of the screen is also big enough to make typing on the Nexus One fast, easy and accurate.
4. Live Wallpapers- I know this really doesn’t add anything of great substance to the phone but the Live Wallpapers found on the Nexus One make the homescreen experience more enjoyable. There is just something so cool about being able to make the water ripple just by tapping the screen.
5. Voice Input- Anywhere you can type on the Nexus One, you can talk. Google has brilliantly added a speech-to-text option to Android 2.1 that is surprisingly accurate and makes send quick text messages incredibly easy. I’ve also found that this method is great as a spelling tool when you don’t have access to a dictionary or spellchecker.
6. Camera- I’m going to be blunt and say that the G1 had one of the most useless camera’s that i’ve encountered on a mobile phone. It was slow, blurry and had a total lack of color accuracy. The Nexus One is a huge step in the right direction. The 5MP camera on this phone is top notch. It takes wonderful pictures with full color and a powerful LED flash and the UI includes multiple options to fine tune your picture taking. The video camera also works extremely well and can capture video up to 30 fps.
7. Snapdragon- This phone flies. The page transitions are smooth, the orientation switches seemlessly and videos and games play without a single hiccup. All of this speed and power is because the Nexus One is packing a 1GHZ Snapdragon processor. For those of you who are not techies, the Snapdragon is the baddest processor in the mobile phone world right now and it packs quite the punch. Let’s just say that you won’t notice the processor which is always a good thing.
8. Homescreen Experience- Google totally revamped the homescreen experience for the Nexus One. It features five panes, updated widgets and a new card-like fast navigation system. You can get weather, news, Facebook updates and play music all from your homescreen. Brilliant.
