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The Nexus One then became the first Android handset to run version 2.1 of the OS, codenamed Eclair, and had a solid hardware configuration with a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor running at 1 GHz and 512 MB of memory. Since then, the competition, especially HTC, has caught up, without consigning the Nexus One to history. The Google Phone still has plenty of tricks up its sleeve ... If you've ever seen a , then you'll immediately spot the family resemblance between the two handsets made by Taiwanese manufacturer HTC. The Nexus One has the same shape as the Desire and the same minimalist design. It's a mixture of dark and light grey plastic (that you'll either love or hate), with a rubbery surface that ensures a good grip: the handset doesn't slip easily. Another benefit is that the case doesn't get covered with greasy fingerprints. There are two specific features on the Nexus One that aren't found on the Desire. The first is the trackball which we didn't end up using that much because the touchscreen is so accurate, but which does flash when you get a new message. The second is a row of touch-sensitive buttons (back, menu, home and search) in place of the Desire's physical buttons.
Google Nexus One Review
The Google Nexus One is Google's own handset, produced to showcase the Android operating system. It's made by HTC, already experienced in Google phones, and both hardware and software shine. If you're after something small and compact, the Google Nexus One isn't the phone for you. It's a big handset, but feels good to hold and surprisingly light. The back is slightly rubberised and sits on your palm while you operate the 3.7-inch screen with your thumb. The display's a beauty: a high-resolution, AMOLED number that is sharp and vivid with bright colours and deep blacks. It's not good in bright sunlight compared with, predictable, the iPhone, but it's better than a regular LCD screen. A black border under the screen contains four touch-sensitive keys: Back, Menu, Home and Search. There is no physical Call key. Under this sits a central clickable trackball for navigating around your home screens that glows when you get a message or call. The only other buttons are a power switch at the top and a volume key on the left-hand side. This lack of physical keys makes for a simple and attractive handset.
Nexus One
I was recently at a swanky private event at the Disney Family Museum in San Francisco, and I was the most popular guy at the party. It wasn't my fashionable wardrobe (somewhere, mysteriously, my wife just broke into peals of laughter and she doesn't know why), and it wasn't my charming wit. Everyone there wanted to be the next person to play with my new Nexus One from Google... aka the "Googlephone". iPhones, the now-ubiquitous accessories of Bay Area culture, stayed shamefully hidden away in pockets and handbags. After all, simply everyone has one of those. I was called on repeatedly to make the phone do tricks and show off features I had barely any time to learn. Indeed, I had only figured out about half of what the phone was capable of at that point. I'm just going to come right out and sum up this article so the busy folks out there can get on with their lives: The Nexus One is the best of the Android phones, and it is also better in every way than the iPhone except for one: the App Store. It's sleeker and lighter, has a much better, higher-resolution screen, and can do everything the iPhone can do, and more. You know, like multitask, allowing it to several things the iPhone can't do at the same time.
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On paper, Google’s new Nexus One is the smartphone to beat. It’s got a gorgeous screen, a svelte formfactor, and the hottest phone operating system on the planet, Android 2.1. Unfortunately, just like the Motorola Droid, the Nexus One has some problems that prevent us from recommending it wholeheartedly. Let’s start with the awesome. The Nexus One’s screen, a 3.7-inch 800x480 active-matrix OLED display, is undeniably gorgeous, rendering pitch-perfect colors at high resolution in a way that makes the iPhone 3GS screen look simply sad by comparison. The Nexus One runs a Qualcomm QSD 8250 at 1GHz, comes with 512MB of RAM and 512MB of onboard flash, and includes a user-upgradeable 4GB MicroSD card. All this is packed into an HTC-designed body that’s slimmer than an iPhone 3GS and waaaay sexier than the Droid. The Android OS itself continues to impress. The 2.1 edition spit-shines the improvements to 2.0. We dig the speedier application menu and the dynamic wallpaper, which uses cues from the music you’re listening to or the time of day to render interesting (but ultimately useless) visualizations behind your home screen.
Google Nexus One review: Firstborn
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.
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The coveted "Google phone" is finally here, but the HTC Nexus One ($180 with a two-year contract with T-Mobile, or $530 unlocked; prices as of January 12, 2010) isn't quite the superphone that Google intimated it would be. It lacks some valuable features--like multitouch and Outlook calendar syncing--that we've seen on competing models, and the Android keyboard can be difficult to use. That said, the Nexus One's speedy Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz processor definitely sets it apart from the Android pack in performance. One asterisk attached to the phone's performance involves its interaction with the T-Mobile network. The phone has run into some network issues, a distressing shortcoming on a phone with so many connected features. Nevertheless, it is a very good handset and marks real progress for the Android platform. Design: Solid, but Not Groundbreaking The Nexus One's hardware isn't especially innovative, and its design is unmistakably the work of HTC. In fact, it most strongly resembles a stretched-out HTC Hero. Still, the phone is attractive and well constructed. Its rounded corners, solid-glass display, and rubberized back make it a pleasure to hold.
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The Google Phone is here. Sort of. Sure, we've seen the G1, the Droid, the Hero, and other smart phones running Google's Android operating system. But the Nexus One is different. Made by HTC, this is the only handset (at the moment) that runs the eye-candy-filled 2.1 version of the OS, and for the first time Google is selling an unlocked phone directly. If you buy it from Google it costs $529, but it's also available on contract from T-Mobile for $179. So is the Nexus One the Google Phone of fanboys' dreams? On the one hand, the phone has a slim, elegant design, a stunning 3.7-inch AMOLED display (with a beautiful new OS to match), and a fast 1.0-GHz processor that makes the experience feel even snappier than the Motorola Droid. And yet a few quirks, from tepid call quality to an occasionally error-prone typing experience, make us hesitant to knock other Android phones off our radar. After all, the 2.1 software is coming to other Android phones, too. In the end, the Nexus One isn't an iPhone killer, but it is the best Android phone available for T-Mobile, making it an Editors' Choice pick.
HTC Nexus One by Google (unlocked)
Call us geeks, but we can't hear the word "Nexus" without thinking of the utopian dimension in Star Trek where all wishes were fulfilled. And in the run-up to the announcement of its Nexus One phone, Google seemed to be going for the same idea. Indeed, when the phone was finally unveiled on January 5, a Google executive billed it as not only a "superphone" that exemplifies what Google Android can do, but also as "the meeting place of Web and phone." Lofty promises to be sure, but as is usually true in the tech world, things aren't always what they seem. Don't let the dull candy bar design fool you: the Nexus One brings welcome new offerings to the Android table. The Snapdragon processor is undeniably zippy, the AMOLED display is gorgeous, and we welcome both the enhanced voice dialing capabilities and the noise cancellation feature. What's more, the Android 2.1 interface enhancements show that Android continues to improve as it evolves. It's not the greatest Android phone around--that's a difficult call to make in such a diverse and crowded field--but it adds to an already rich family. Of course, the Nexus One wasn't without its problems: the music player continues to underwhelm, app storage remains limited to the internal memory, we didn't get tethering or multitouch, and we would have appreciated dual-mode (GSM/CDMA) support.
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HTC Nexus One Unlocked GSM Smartphone with Android OS, 5MP Camera and Touchscreen - No Warranty - Brown | $299.99 | See it |
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Google Nexus One Unlocked Phone with Android--U.S. Warranty (Brown) | $304.99 | See it |
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HTC Nexus One Unlocked GSM Smartphone with Android OS, 5MP Camera and Touchscreen - No Warranty - Brown | $319.99 | See it |
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Google Nexus One Phone - GSM Unlocked | $339.99 | See it |
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