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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.
3D Engine on Google Android Phone – Nexus One
Mar 3rd
This is demos of 3D Engine on Google Android Phone – Nexus One. for More Informations or technical questions, mail to help@code3.co.kr
Google Earth Hits the Nexus One
Feb 24th
It was bound to happen sooner or later, and thankfully, Google Earth has already arrived on the Nexus One. Unfortunately, owners of other Android phones running 1.5 and 1.6 will not be able to use this application…yet. Video after the break.
HTC Sense on Nexus One for Those That Desire It
Feb 18th
I’ve been waiting to see how much “hackery” would ensue on the Google Nexus One (s goog) and today I got an eyeful. Yup, efforts are underway to get the HTC Sense UI on the Nexus One. Paul O’Brien, the mastermind at Modaco, is making good headway using a ROM built for the HTC Desire. That makes “sense”, since the Desire is a slightly evolved Nexus One. While I never expected to put a non-carrier ROM on my handset, I may just make an exception for this one. Aside from HTC Sense, there’s some other desirable goodies in the build:
- 800 x 480 video recording, which is a slight boost over the native 720 x 480
- Face recognition and touch focus for the camera
- Adobe (s adbe) Flash 10.1
To be honest, I can live without Flash — I have for years, so obviously, I can continue to do so. But I’ve found that it’s a nice to have feature on the evaluation Nokia N900 every now and again for watching video. YouTube vids are generally a non-issue these days, but other players require Flash support. Our own site videos fall into that category — although we were just chatting internally about future video and support for handhelds today: stay tuned.
The Sense UI itself is really what I’m interested in, and that’s mainly because I’ve never used it for more than a few minutes. I’d like to run with it for a week or so, just to see if it’s a “must have” for the way I use my handset. For now, I’m in a wait-and-see mode while Paul continues to work his magic.
However, I did grab a little bit of sense today: I added the HTC Sense keyboard to my Nexus One. It was actually a pretty simple process as outlined at XDA-Developers. I downloaded two .APK files, unzipped them to the SD card on my Nexus One and installed them. As far as installation goes, you can always use the ADB utility in the Android SDK, but I found what might be a faster, easier way. Just search the Android Market for AppsInstaller, which is a free utility and install it. AppsInstaller scans your SD card and allows you to install any applications on the card. The process took me under five minutes and I’m now typing far faster. The keyboard comes with a touch calibration utility, which I ran through one time and the keyboard experience is much more like the iPhone (s aapl), which worked well for me.I’m already finding it faster than the native Android keyboard and even faster than Swype. And there’s still a dedicated key for voice-to-text input, so it’s a win all around.
Images courtesy of DroidDog
Related research on GigaOM Pro (sub req’d):
Google’s Mobile Strategy: Understanding the Nexus One
Video of Interface of the Google Nexus One
Feb 12th
This video shows us the interface of the New phone of google Nexus One.
Undoubtedly one of the phones most looked nowadays, made by HTC
Moto Droid s 2.1 Update Coming Soon – Phandroid.com
Feb 8th
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Moto Droid's 2.1 Update Coming Soon
Phandroid.com I, just like any other Droid owner out there, have been envying Android 2.1 since the release of the Nexus One. … nexus one desktop dockJan 30th How to change primary email account for Android phone G1 Dream?Jan 26th Android phone G1 Dream has only one email account associated with Gmail app. When you start pre-installed Gmail app (not Email), you can directly read your email without login and get notification when you’ve got mail. This email account is also associated with other applications like Contacts (sync with your email account) and other Google apps. When the phone ownership changes, e.g., you want to give you G1 Dream phone to your spouse since you just bought a Droid, the email account needs to be changed. How can I change the primary email account? How can I remove existing contacts to protect privacy? How can the new owner import his contacts? Some people suggest we do factory data reset. It is not necessary. Here is how you can do it without factory data reset. 1) Go Menu -> Setting -> Applications -> Manage applications. 2) Gmail Storage -> Clear data. 3) Gmail -> Clear data. 4) Google Apps -> Clear data. 5) Google Search (enhanced) -> Clear data, then your existing contacts and your former email account are removed. 6) Restart Gmail, which will ask you to set up your Google mail account. Now you can set up a new gmail account. Then emails and contacts will be synchronized and shown up shortly. However, it does not work for Nexus One. On Nexus One, you will not see Gmail storage, Gmail, Google apps, or Google apps item on Menu -> Setting -> Applications -> Manage applications. But for Nexus One, you can associate several email accounts with Gmail app. Here is how you add multiple email accounts to Gmail application on Nexus One. 1) Go Menu -> Setting -> Accounts & sync. 2) Add account and set up another Google email account following the wizard. 3) When you start email, you have one primary account and emails associated with it to read. When you view email, you can select Setting -> Accounts and pick your another email to check emails associated with your other email accounts. Would Google Nexus One affect other wireless operators? – ITvoirJan 22nd
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