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Google Nexus One – Keyboard
Jul 29th
I am not a big fan of the keyboard on the Google Nexus One. I am saying this is because I always get wrong keys pressed! I have tried to improve on my skills but it is nothing compared to the sheer joy that I had when I was using the Nokia E72 or the Nokia N900. I am just quite dissapointed with the fact that the keyboard speed is not as fast as it could have been.
Google/ HTC could help use out here in the following updates (presumably Gingerbread 3.0) that they will improve on the sensitivity and the accuracy of the touchscreen. The keyboard is rather small and it is highly likely that wrong letters will be pressed. I am hoping that they will improve on the size of each tile. If they could improve on the HTC Hero, I would not see any reason why they could not do so for the Nexus One.
In the mean time, we will have to wait for the updates then.
[How to] Get a Google Nexus One
Jul 28th
Ever since I have posted my review of Google Nexus One, lots of people have been asking me how and where to get one. And, based on my review, at least 8 of my friends have bought this killer device in the last few months. With Google having shutdown its web store, tech enthusiasts are trying hard to get the device from the Internet giant.
Here is a set of options for
When your Android phone will support Flash 10.1?
Jul 24th
From Computerworld, something like an up-to-date list of the future update of each Android phone to Froyo.
This is linked to my previous post about contests : there is actually NO release date of Flash 10.1 (via Froyo) for each Android phone.
This point another problem about Android : Google lets phone manufacter (even HTC!) make their own OS, or at leat GUI, BASED on Android.
It means everytime Google launches a new version of Android, these manufacters must patch their own version….which mean times and money.
After the screen fragmentation which came with Android 2.0, we now have the OS fragmentation…very bad!
The solution will be a classic Androis OS for every phone (no HTC sense nor Motorola Sensor) but, in that case, what will make the (marketing) difference between a Sony and a HTC ? What will make you buy a Motorola over the latest Samsung ?
Design, power, memory, dedicated Android apps,… ?
I doubt it will be enought for marketing…(only Apple could succeed to sell a phone only using its design)
I personnaly bought a HTC Desire over the Google Nexus One because of HTC Sense (UI is VERY important for my wife)….it seems developer should ALWAYS buy one Google phone to be up to date…
So sad I don’t live in USA to get free Nexus One at some Adobe event 
YouTube of the Day
Jul 14th
Perhaps appealing to YouTube viewers is, at times, akin to shooting fish in a barrel.
“Sexting on my Google Nexus One phone”
Google Nexus One will finally get FM radio, if developers decide to include it in custom ROMs
Jul 14th
Google clearly doesn’t care about the integrated, but not-software-supported FM radio in the Nexus One. They’ve made that very clear during Google I/O this year, and let it all in the hands of the developer community.
Months later, user intersectRaven over on XDA Developers has finally cracked it and made available a kernel that includes this much-sought after (?) functionality that may now bring the Nexus One fully on par with its twin, the HTC Desire.
However, this doesn’t mean that you can go and install a custom ROM that has this support built-in.
Not yet, at least.
It’s up to individual ROM developers to include this kernel in their works, so you need to wait for your favorite development team to implement it.
I’m betting it won’t be long before we see a ROM with FM radio support, or even many.
In fact, known developer Paul O’Brien, of Modaco fame, has announced that he’s already working on the next version of his Sense UI port to the Nexus One, which will include the FM radio support.
Just have a bit more patience, FM radio fanatics. I mean, you’ve had so much already, surely you can spare some more.
Google Nexus One will finally get FM radio, if developers decide to include it in custom ROMs
Ubuntu Moves to Google Nexus One
Jul 10th
Modders have shown that you can port Android onto an iPhone, and now it’s the Google Nexus One’s turn. No, not iOS 4 on the Nexus One, but the open-source Ubuntu.