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Best video to Nexus One converter –Convert videos and music to Nexus One with Pavtube video converter
Aug 19th
The Nexus One is the first phone using Android 2.1, making the Google Nexus One phone a strong competitor against Apple iPhone 4 and the HTC Droid Incredible. The screen is an outpour of 16.7 million colors and the display is 800 x 480-pixel, good enough for you to browse photos and watch videos. A good news for movie lovers is that the Google Nexus One supports video playback duration of up to 7 hours, and music up to 20 hours. Well, I know that’s not our topic but… it is somewhat related to our concern: transferring video and music to Nexus One phone.
In order to transfer videos to Google Nexus One for playback, you need to make sure that the video (or audio) format is supported by the Nexus One. Let’s take a look at acceptable code by Nexus One:
Video codec: H.263, MPEG-4 SP, H.264 AVC
Audio codec: AAC LC/LTP, HE-AACv1 (AAC+), HE-AACv2 (enhanced AAC+), AMR-NB, AMR-WB 9, MP3, MIDI SMF, Ogg Vorbis, WAV
If your source video or audio file is encoded by above mentioned codec, please move on to the next step. Otherwise you need to convert the video or audio to supported format for Nexus One before transferring video to Nexus One.?
Detailed guide of transferring videos and music from PC to Nexus One:
1. Use the USB cable that came with your Nexus One to connect the phone to your PC, and you’ll receive a notification that the USB is connected.
2. Open the Notifications panel and touch USB connected.Then touch Turn on USB storage in the screen that opens to confirm that you want to transfer files. The Nexus One phone is connected as USB storage, and the screen will indicate that USB storage is in use and you receive a notification.
3. The SD card of Nexus One is mounted as a drive on your computer.You can now copy videos from PC to the SD card. During this time, you can’t access the SD card from your Nexus One or share your phone’s data connection with your computer via USB.
4. When the videos are copied to the SD card of Nexus One, you can disconnect your phone from PC. First unmount the SD card on your PC, then open the Notifications panel and touch Turn off USB storage.
Create Nexus One videos from movies, TV recordings, HD shootings, DVD videos, Flashes, etc:
What if the video formats are not supported by Nexus One? Is there anyway to make Nexus One play movies, TV shows, Flashes and general videos that are not encoded in accepted codec? Surely there is. In the following guide I will show you a way enjoying videos of AVI, MOV, TiVo, FLV, MKV on Nexus One.The tool I use is Pavtube Video Converter. You may access a trial version of Video to Nexus One Converter and try it out.
Step 1. Load Videos to the Video to Nexus One Converter.
Install Video to Nexus One Converter and run the application. The interface is intuitive and easy to operate. Click on “Add” button to import source videos, or drag and drop videos to the program. This Video to Nexus One Converter is able to convert various video formats, such as TiVo, AVI, MP4, WMV, MPG, MKV, FLV, VOB, F4V, FLV, etc. To convert commercial DVDs to Nexus One, or rip blu-ray movie to Nexus One, you can have a try with Blu-Ray to Nexus One Converter.
Step 2. Select Nexus One as output format.
Click on the “Format” bar and there are various output formats for you to choose from. As we’re converting videos to Nexus One, you may follow “Android”-> “Google Nexus One MPEG-4 (*.mp4) format. This format gives video of 480*320, which looks fine on Nexus One. If you’d like to create Nexus One video of better quality, click on “Settings” and set File Size to 800*480, and bit rate to 1500/2000/2500.
Step 3. Start converting videos to Nexus One optimized video format.
Now click “Convert” button to start converting videos to customized Nexus One video. Wait till the conversion finished. Luckily the Video to Nexus One Converter is of high conversion speed and usually you do not have to wait long.
Step 4. Transfer videos to Nexus One.
After conversion completed, the video clips are ready to be transferred to Nexus One for playback. Refer to above how to transfer videos to Nexus One.
Extract music from video for playback with Nexus One? Convert video to Nexus One audio?
It is very simple to extract sound track from videos. You can convert every video that loaded to the converter to Nexus One music.Simply select desired audio format in Step 2 (see the above guide). For example, you may follow “Common Video”-> “MP3 – MPEG Layer 3 Audio (*.mp3) or “AAC- Advanced Audio Coding (*.aac).
What if I just need partial of the track, not a full length? Well, here you are advised to use the Trim function in the Editor of Video to Nexus One Converter. Select the item you want to trim, click “Edit” button, then switch to “Trim” tab to set start and end time. Always trim the video before setting output format.
The picture above reveals that I cut the video length from 55 secs down to 30 secs. I then back to the main interface of Video to Nexus One Converter, set output format as MP3, and click “Convert”. Few seconds later, I get an MP3 file of 30 secs.
The Nexus One Converter- convert Nexus One shootings to Youtube, FaceBook, etc
With the Google Nexus One, up to thirty minutes of video can be shot in a 720 x 480-pixel resolution, surely you can watch the videos on the smart phone, but when you feel like posting your shootings to Youtube,FaceBook, Viemo, etc, this powerful Pavtube Nexus One Converter also helps you to customize Nexus One shootings (H.263 or MPEG-4 encoded videos) to Youtube,FaceBook with proper formats, size,and duration. But maybe I would leave it in another guide, since that’s not today’s topic.
Best video to Nexus One converter –Convert videos and music to Nexus One with Pavtube video converter
Aug 19th
The Nexus One is the first phone using Android 2.1, making the Google Nexus One phone a strong competitor against Apple iPhone 4 and the HTC Droid Incredible. The screen is an outpour of 16.7 million colors and the display is 800 x 480-pixel, good enough for you to browse photos and watch videos. A good news for movie lovers is that the Google Nexus One supports video playback duration of up to 7 hours, and music up to 20 hours. Well, I know that’s not our topic but… it is somewhat related to our concern: transferring video and music to Nexus One phone.
In order to transfer videos to Google Nexus One for playback, you need to make sure that the video (or audio) format is supported by the Nexus One. Let’s take a look at acceptable code by Nexus One:
Video codec: H.263, MPEG-4 SP, H.264 AVC
Audio codec: AAC LC/LTP, HE-AACv1 (AAC+), HE-AACv2 (enhanced AAC+), AMR-NB, AMR-WB 9, MP3, MIDI SMF, Ogg Vorbis, WAV
If your source video or audio file is encoded by above mentioned codec, please move on to the next step. Otherwise you need to convert the video or audio to supported format for Nexus One before transferring video to Nexus One.?
Detailed guide of transferring videos and music from PC to Nexus One:
1. Use the USB cable that came with your Nexus One to connect the phone to your PC, and you’ll receive a notification that the USB is connected.
2. Open the Notifications panel and touch USB connected.Then touch Turn on USB storage in the screen that opens to confirm that you want to transfer files. The Nexus One phone is connected as USB storage, and the screen will indicate that USB storage is in use and you receive a notification.
3. The SD card of Nexus One is mounted as a drive on your computer.You can now copy videos from PC to the SD card. During this time, you can’t access the SD card from your Nexus One or share your phone’s data connection with your computer via USB.
4. When the videos are copied to the SD card of Nexus One, you can disconnect your phone from PC. First unmount the SD card on your PC, then open the Notifications panel and touch Turn off USB storage.
Create Nexus One videos from movies, TV recordings, HD shootings, DVD videos, Flashes, etc:
What if the video formats are not supported by Nexus One? Is there anyway to make Nexus One play movies, TV shows, Flashes and general videos that are not encoded in accepted codec? Surely there is. In the following guide I will show you a way enjoying videos of AVI, MOV, TiVo, FLV, MKV on Nexus One.The tool I use is Pavtube Video Converter. You may access a trial version of Video to Nexus One Converter and try it out.
Step 1. Load Videos to the Video to Nexus One Converter.
Install Video to Nexus One Converter and run the application. The interface is intuitive and easy to operate. Click on “Add” button to import source videos, or drag and drop videos to the program. This Video to Nexus One Converter is able to convert various video formats, such as TiVo, AVI, MP4, WMV, MPG, MKV, FLV, VOB, F4V, FLV, etc. To convert commercial DVDs to Nexus One, or rip blu-ray movie to Nexus One, you can have a try with Blu-Ray to Nexus One Converter.
Step 2. Select Nexus One as output format.
Click on the “Format” bar and there are various output formats for you to choose from. As we’re converting videos to Nexus One, you may follow “Android”-> “Google Nexus One MPEG-4 (*.mp4) format. This format gives video of 480*320, which looks fine on Nexus One. If you’d like to create Nexus One video of better quality, click on “Settings” and set File Size to 800*480, and bit rate to 1500/2000/2500.
Step 3. Start converting videos to Nexus One optimized video format.
Now click “Convert” button to start converting videos to customized Nexus One video. Wait till the conversion finished. Luckily the Video to Nexus One Converter is of high conversion speed and usually you do not have to wait long.
Step 4. Transfer videos to Nexus One.
After conversion completed, the video clips are ready to be transferred to Nexus One for playback. Refer to above how to transfer videos to Nexus One.
Extract music from video for playback with Nexus One? Convert video to Nexus One audio?
It is very simple to extract sound track from videos. You can convert every video that loaded to the converter to Nexus One music.Simply select desired audio format in Step 2 (see the above guide). For example, you may follow “Common Video”-> “MP3 – MPEG Layer 3 Audio (*.mp3) or “AAC- Advanced Audio Coding (*.aac).
What if I just need partial of the track, not a full length? Well, here you are advised to use the Trim function in the Editor of Video to Nexus One Converter. Select the item you want to trim, click “Edit” button, then switch to “Trim” tab to set start and end time. Always trim the video before setting output format.
The picture above reveals that I cut the video length from 55 secs down to 30 secs. I then back to the main interface of Video to Nexus One Converter, set output format as MP3, and click “Convert”. Few seconds later, I get an MP3 file of 30 secs.
The Nexus One Converter- convert Nexus One shootings to Youtube, FaceBook, etc
With the Google Nexus One, up to thirty minutes of video can be shot in a 720 x 480-pixel resolution, surely you can watch the videos on the smart phone, but when you feel like posting your shootings to Youtube,FaceBook, Viemo, etc, this powerful Pavtube Nexus One Converter also helps you to customize Nexus One shootings (H.263 or MPEG-4 encoded videos) to Youtube,FaceBook with proper formats, size,and duration. But maybe I would leave it in another guide, since that’s not today’s topic.
Best video to Nexus One converter –Convert videos and music to Nexus One with Pavtube video converter
Aug 19th
The Nexus One is the first phone using Android 2.1, making the Google Nexus One phone a strong competitor against Apple iPhone 4 and the HTC Droid Incredible. The screen is an outpour of 16.7 million colors and the display is 800 x 480-pixel, good enough for you to browse photos and watch videos. A good news for movie lovers is that the Google Nexus One supports video playback duration of up to 7 hours, and music up to 20 hours. Well, I know that’s not our topic but… it is somewhat related to our concern: transferring video and music to Nexus One phone.
In order to transfer videos to Google Nexus One for playback, you need to make sure that the video (or audio) format is supported by the Nexus One. Let’s take a look at acceptable code by Nexus One:
Video codec: H.263, MPEG-4 SP, H.264 AVC
Audio codec: AAC LC/LTP, HE-AACv1 (AAC+), HE-AACv2 (enhanced AAC+), AMR-NB, AMR-WB 9, MP3, MIDI SMF, Ogg Vorbis, WAV
If your source video or audio file is encoded by above mentioned codec, please move on to the next step. Otherwise you need to convert the video or audio to supported format for Nexus One before transferring video to Nexus One.?
Detailed guide of transferring videos and music from PC to Nexus One:
1. Use the USB cable that came with your Nexus One to connect the phone to your PC, and you’ll receive a notification that the USB is connected.
2. Open the Notifications panel and touch USB connected.Then touch Turn on USB storage in the screen that opens to confirm that you want to transfer files. The Nexus One phone is connected as USB storage, and the screen will indicate that USB storage is in use and you receive a notification.
3. The SD card of Nexus One is mounted as a drive on your computer.You can now copy videos from PC to the SD card. During this time, you can’t access the SD card from your Nexus One or share your phone’s data connection with your computer via USB.
4. When the videos are copied to the SD card of Nexus One, you can disconnect your phone from PC. First unmount the SD card on your PC, then open the Notifications panel and touch Turn off USB storage.
Create Nexus One videos from movies, TV recordings, HD shootings, DVD videos, Flashes, etc:
What if the video formats are not supported by Nexus One? Is there anyway to make Nexus One play movies, TV shows, Flashes and general videos that are not encoded in accepted codec? Surely there is. In the following guide I will show you a way enjoying videos of AVI, MOV, TiVo, FLV, MKV on Nexus One.The tool I use is Pavtube Video Converter. You may access a trial version of Video to Nexus One Converter and try it out.
Step 1. Load Videos to the Video to Nexus One Converter.
Install Video to Nexus One Converter and run the application. The interface is intuitive and easy to operate. Click on “Add” button to import source videos, or drag and drop videos to the program. This Video to Nexus One Converter is able to convert various video formats, such as TiVo, AVI, MP4, WMV, MPG, MKV, FLV, VOB, F4V, FLV, etc. To convert commercial DVDs to Nexus One, or rip blu-ray movie to Nexus One, you can have a try with Blu-Ray to Nexus One Converter.
Step 2. Select Nexus One as output format.
Click on the “Format” bar and there are various output formats for you to choose from. As we’re converting videos to Nexus One, you may follow “Android”-> “Google Nexus One MPEG-4 (*.mp4) format. This format gives video of 480*320, which looks fine on Nexus One. If you’d like to create Nexus One video of better quality, click on “Settings” and set File Size to 800*480, and bit rate to 1500/2000/2500.
Step 3. Start converting videos to Nexus One optimized video format.
Now click “Convert” button to start converting videos to customized Nexus One video. Wait till the conversion finished. Luckily the Video to Nexus One Converter is of high conversion speed and usually you do not have to wait long.
Step 4. Transfer videos to Nexus One.
After conversion completed, the video clips are ready to be transferred to Nexus One for playback. Refer to above how to transfer videos to Nexus One.
Extract music from video for playback with Nexus One? Convert video to Nexus One audio?
It is very simple to extract sound track from videos. You can convert every video that loaded to the converter to Nexus One music.Simply select desired audio format in Step 2 (see the above guide). For example, you may follow “Common Video”-> “MP3 – MPEG Layer 3 Audio (*.mp3) or “AAC- Advanced Audio Coding (*.aac).
What if I just need partial of the track, not a full length? Well, here you are advised to use the Trim function in the Editor of Video to Nexus One Converter. Select the item you want to trim, click “Edit” button, then switch to “Trim” tab to set start and end time. Always trim the video before setting output format.
The picture above reveals that I cut the video length from 55 secs down to 30 secs. I then back to the main interface of Video to Nexus One Converter, set output format as MP3, and click “Convert”. Few seconds later, I get an MP3 file of 30 secs.
The Nexus One Converter- convert Nexus One shootings to Youtube, FaceBook, etc
With the Google Nexus One, up to thirty minutes of video can be shot in a 720 x 480-pixel resolution, surely you can watch the videos on the smart phone, but when you feel like posting your shootings to Youtube,FaceBook, Viemo, etc, this powerful Pavtube Nexus One Converter also helps you to customize Nexus One shootings (H.263 or MPEG-4 encoded videos) to Youtube,FaceBook with proper formats, size,and duration. But maybe I would leave it in another guide, since that’s not today’s topic.
Nexus One Twin (HTC Desire) reaches India
Aug 16th
The wait is finally over. HTC announces the launch of the Nexus One twin (HTC Desire) in India. The phone has the similar configuration as that of Nexus One in terms of the processor, memory, camera, resolution, etc. HTC has tied up with Tata DoCoMo to launch the phone in India. The cost of the phone is R 28,900/- which is quite reasonable when compared to the cost of iPhone 3GS in India. Trust me, it is powerful than iPhone 3GS. The new HTC Desire will be available starting today at all authorized HTC resellers across the country.
Nexus One Gps Win
Aug 3rd
Video Title: (Nexus One Gps Win)
Video Duration: 1:46
From: NeoDarkEther
Category: Science and Technology
testing the nexus one’s gps in a tgv french high-speed train. the gps worked fine 99 of the time sometimes, it jumped a bit up to 500 kmh usually after ping through a tunnel, otherwise it was very stable unlike the teleporting-style, boson-jumping galaxy s.
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HTC’s "Nexus Two" sees $163.35 Bill of Materials
Aug 2nd
HTC Droid Incredible as possible followup to Google phone
HTC’s new Droid Incredible smart phone carries a Bill of Materials (BOM) of $163.35, according to a dissection conducted by iSuppli’s Teardown Analysis Service.
“The Droid Incredible could have been dubbed the ‘Nexus Two’ given its similarity to HTC’s Nexus One introduced early this year,” said Andrew Rassweiler, director and principal analyst and teardown services manager for iSuppli. “Indeed, the phones are very similar in terms of costs and features, with the main difference being the Incredible’s support for the CDMA air standard used by carrier Verizon in the United States.”
The Nexus One’s BOM amounted to $174.15, based on iSuppli’s January pricing estimate, very close to the current materials cost for the Incredible. The centerpiece of both phones is an advanced Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) display. Both phones also share a common electronic design based on Qualcomm Inc.’s 1GHz Snapdragon baseband processor. Finally, the Incredible and Nexus One both integrate a class-leading density, at 4Gbit, of Mobile Double Data Rate (DDR) DRAM to support the processor.
Beyond the use of CDMA in the Incredible, only a few other differences distinguish the phone from the Nexus One. The Incredible, for one, uses an optical track pad, as opposed to the trackball on the Nexus One. Furthermore, the Incredible employs HTC’s Sense User Interface (UI) overlay, whereas the Nexus uses the generic Android UI. When the $8.90 manufacturing cost is added in, the combined BOM and production expense for the Incredible amounts to $172.25.
Qualcomm, Samsung and Hynix lead the BOM parade
The most expensive section of the Incredible is the baseband/applications processor, at a cost of $31.40, and accounting for 19.2 percent of the smart phone’s total BOM. This section is dominated by Qualcomm’s baseband Integrated Circuit (IC), which includes the Snapdragon processor.
Coming in at a close second in terms of expense is the display and touch screen section at a cost of $31.20, or 19.1 percent of the BOM. The AMOLED display portion of this subsystem is supplied by Samsung Mobile Display.
Next in the ranking is the memory section, at a cost of $29.80 and accounting for 18.2 percent of the BOM. In the individual Incredible phone unit torn down by iSuppli, this section consists of NAND flash memory and mobile Double Data Rate (DDR) DRAM from Samsung Electronics and more NAND from Hynix Semiconductor. However, iSuppli believes that HTC is likely using additional sources of supply for these commodity memory parts.
Broadcom, Texas Instruments and Atmel get Incredible wins
Other major functional sections and suppliers include:
- The Bluetooth/WLAN section, at a cost of $8.45 or 5.2 percent of the BOM, featuring a Broadcom chip that combines Bluetooth, FM and WLAN support.
- The power management section, with an expense of $7.25 and amounting to 4.4 percent of the BOM, including semiconductors from Qualcomm and Texas Instruments
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.
RIP Nexus One
Jul 22nd
Wow, the Nexus One sure sold out fast. Less than a week that the last shipment arrived at Google, and now, they’re all sold. After getting word that Google received its last Nexus One shipment, the Nexus One is now officially sold out at google.com/phone.
This means that you can’t officially get the Nexus One from Google anymore. The only way would be from backchannels like eBay. RIP Nexus One. You’ve given a great show in your lifetime.
Update: Nexus One changes in availability
Jul 16th
To ensure our developers have access to a phone with the latest Android OS, Google will be offering the Nexus One through a partner for sale to registered developers. Visit the Android Market Publisher site and log into your developer account to purchase a Nexus One.
Earlier this year, we announced that we will be closing the Nexus One web store. This week we received our last shipment of Nexus One phones. Once we sell these devices, the Nexus One will no longer be available online from Google. Customer support will still be available for current Nexus One customers. And Nexus One will continue to be sold by partners including Vodafone in Europe, KT in Korea, and possibly others based on local market conditions.
HTC Reports Better than Expected Android Plays big part
Jul 6th
Taiwan- Smartphone maker HTC reported their second quarter revenue figures today and saw the highest increase in revenue since 2007. Although they are the largest maker of Smartphones utilizing theWindows mobile operating system, their Android handsets are one of the key reasons for this growth. In AdMob’s recently published survey, and the last one for a while since their acquisition by google, the HTC Dream, HTC Hero, HTC Magic and Nexus One were all among the top 10 Android handsets.
HTC showed a total revenue of 1.88 Billion and a total profit of 268 million after taxes. These figures represent an increase of 62% over the previous quarter.
In June alone HTC saw revenue of $741 million which is attributed to the Android platform shipping 160,000 handsets per day.
The numbers are a little early and despite having supplier problems the HTC Incredible and the HTC Evo are sure to drive their numbers even higher for the next month.
Although there have been no official reports, rumors are that HTC is in development of a “Vision” handset as well as a few others slated for T-mobile this fall. HTC is currently the only manufcaturer of smartphone handsets with a model available on all 4 carriers they are:
HTC My Touch Slide 3G- Tmobile
HTC Nexus One-Tmobile
HTC Hero & Evo 4G – Sprint
HTC Droid Incredible- Verizon
HTC Aria on AT&T