The mobile phone war has begun: Google has used the word superphone to present the Nexus One phone – the product that is supposed to break the monopoly of the market dominated by iPhone and Blackberry. The Nexus One is already sold to customers in the United States, United Kingdom, Singapore and Hong Kong. In the coming months will come the turn of other countries. The phone costs $ 529 without a contract, it must be purchased in this version directly on the Google site.
A subscriber with T-Mobile, the first company to link its name to Nexus One, the price drops to $ 179. Vodafone and Verizon will be added in the spring of 2010. The phone was built on the Google-specific by the Taiwanese HTC. The operating system is version 2.1 of Android, software designed by Google and so far allocated for free to other phone manufacturers.
According to Walter Mossberg, the technology guru much followed the Wall Street Journal on Nexus One is a “bold new face” on the smartphone market and is the best phone based on Android ever made so far but the iPhone is still “a better platform to Applications “. Also, Mossberg points out, the iPhone is still well above regarding reproduction and use of movies, music and games.
Here is a video of one Nexus one Games
The Nexus One has an 3.7-inch OLED screen, larger than that of the iPhone, and slightly thinner, narrow and light, although a little longer. Like Apple’s phone has a screen touch without the keyboard, but also shares the “trackball” of the Blackberry. The camera is 5 megapixels much more powerful than the iPhone. Some specific innovations in the Nexus One are a key to directly upload videos to YouTube, and the integration of information of social-networking contacts list. Were also incorporated a series of 3D views for menus and for screensavers, which make their operation more attractive.
The Nexus One was released on the 5th of January in 2010. The phone is sold through the Google website. According to thehandy-faq.de Nexus One Test, this phones main benefit is that you can control it with only one hand instead using two hands like, when playing with iPhone.
The price for an unlocked Nexus One phone is $529 or $179 if purchased with a subscription with a T-Mobile contract. Only two years plan is available – $ 79.99 per month rate, which gives you 500 minutes of talking time with unlimited nights and include weekends, unlimited SMS / MMS and web data. The $179 T-Mobile price is only for individuals currently under contract with T-Mobile. A good source for getting newest info about this phone from real people is the Nexus One Forum. Bear in mind that this forum is in German though.
If currently a T-Mobile contract without a data package, the price of the phone rises to $279.99. If the contract has both voice and data package, the price of the phone jumps to a higher price, which is $ 379.99. By spring 2010, a Verizon version will be available in the U.S. and Vodafone model in Europe, with plans to expand to other phone carriers and the international market due course.
Google is making the phone available for delivery to the United Kingdom, Singapore and Hong Kong, but indigenous carrier tie-ups are not completed for these countries, and the phone is shipped from the USA. Customers ordering from the United Kingdom have to pay $20 international shipping fee and an additional $19.99 for an optional AC adapter, with an additional 17.5% VAT and 6.5% import duties are added. Singapore GST is 7%, while Hong Kong does not add additional taxes. If you want to buy the phone in Germany, i would suggest you to read Nexus One kaufen / Import forum post.
Also, don’t miss out our review of Google Nexus One phone. There is some great exclusive information in that post.
Google introduced yesterday their new touchscreen mobile phone, which uses their own operating system called Android. Android operating system is open source and it is also used by other mobile phone producers. Motorola for example. With this step, Google is trying to compete with Apple iPhone and conquer their piece of the smartphone market in the world. For full specs, check out the official Nexus One homepage at http://www.google.com/phone/
Here is ou r review of the new Nexus One phone.
Nexus One is a GSM / UMTS based smartphone that has advanced features and Android operating system and a 1 GHz processor. It has a large 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen display with a resolution of 480×800 pixels, accelerometer and proximity sensors, both RAM and ROM of 512 MB, expansion slots, 4 GB card included, HSDPA and HSUPA , connectivity, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 5 megapixel camera with LED flash and advanced features, integrated GPS, media player and FM radio.
Among the widgets will find one to show news and another to display the current time and position via GPS.
Another novelty is the incorporation of interactive animated wallpapers. Examples show the reflection of a tree in a lake, where we will see leaves fall to the water waves are or how we play the water to form these waves.
The application launcher has also been redesigned to facilitate access to these, as well as photo viewing system, which groups the photos depending on when they have been taken. you can also automatically upload them to Picasa.
Speech recognition has been added to the whole system, so that we can enter text by voice in any field. This works, for example, the GPS navigator or the new Google Earth has added to the system.
Nexus One Video Review
The new phone, which is named as Nexus One has in addition to the traditional functions, a compass and a GPS system. Phone design and construction was made by Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC. The Nexus One runs on Android 2.1, the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system. New to the Nexus One is the ability to use dynamic wallpapers, a moving picture show and react to touch. Google sells the Nexus One set only through their own webshop. The usual way the Nexus One in conjunction with a subscription to T-Mobile U.S. and as a single unit purchase.
Nexus One phone is being sold on eBay.com for the price around $500. The new phone is 11.5 mm thick, has a 9.4 cm screen and it weighs 130 grams. One uses the Nexus Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.
Nexus One Unboxing
Google launched today an online shop for your new phone sale. The phone will work in T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, Verizon and Vodafone mobile networks.
Google’s attempt illustrates its desire to grow their advertising sales on mobile phones. This market could grow from 1 billion to 3 billion dollars by the year 2013.
The Google shop offers the phone currently only to people living in U.S., Singapore, Hong Kong and England, but it should become available to buy for other people in Europe very soon.
I hope you liked our Nexus One review and if you have anything you want to add then please share it in the comments section below!
The T-Mobile G1 (aka the HTC Dream in the development) is an Internet-enabled smartphone with software developed by Google Inc.. and hardware designed by High Tech Computer Corporation in Taiwan. The G1 is the first phone on the market using the Android mobile platform. The phone is part of an open standard defined by the Open Handset Alliance. The phone was released in the U.S. on October 22, 2008, and in the United Kingdom on October 30, 2008 and was available in other European countries, including Germany and the Czech republic in the beginning of 2009 .
In the U.S. the price starts at $ 179 for new and existing T-Mobile customers if purchased with a two-year T-Mobile voice and data plan, and $ 399 without a contract. The G1 comes in black, bronze, or white. Hardware * Display: 3.2 inch (8.1 cm) TFT – LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with HVGA 480 x 320 pixel resolution. rogers htc dream review
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* CPU: MSM7201A It is a dual-core CPU / GPU from Qualcomm and contains many built in features including 3G and a GPU capable of 4 million triangles / sec.
* Keyboard: The G1 has a sliding full 5 row QWERTY keyboard.
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It comes with a set of 6 navigational buttons:
o (green, black in the United Kingdom) – make outgoing calls, receive calls, or open the dialer.
o home (black) – displays home screen with shortcut icons for some applications and a drawer containing all applications on the phone.
o trackball – navigating between items on the screen.
o back (black) – return to the previous screen.
o phone (red, black in the United Kingdom) – End active call or phone to sleep.
o menu (black) – display the contextual menu for the current screen.
o a touchscreen keyboard is scheduled for Q1 2009.
There is also a combination of volume buttons on the left side of the phone and a camera button on the right.
* Audio: Instead of a headphone jack (like many HTC smartphones), the G1 a mini-USB connector compatible extUSB .
* Camera: The G1 has 3.2-megapixel camera with auto focus functionality. The G1 supports playback of H.264, streaming, 3GPP, MPEG4, and Codec 3GP files. There is no flash.
* Storage: The G1 has a microSD card slot and comes with a 1GB memory card (8GB in the United Kingdom). The device also works with a 16 GB card, it is also the limit.
* Battery: The G1 has a user-replaceable, rechargeable battery. This can go up to 5 hours with it when receiving calls, and 130 hours in stand-by mode.
* GPS: The G1 has a GPS receiver for precise positioning.
Based on thisweek's flurry of media reports, it appears that Google will introduce its Nexus One smartphone right after the New Year. This HTC-built handset sounds like a very good Android phone, a solid effort as Google delves deeper into the consumer wireless market.
Unconfirmed rumors price the phone at $180 with a 2-year T-Mobile plan, or $530 unsubsidized. T-Mobile's monthly contract will run about $80 a month for 500 minutes of talk and unlimited text and Web -- pricey, sure, but not out of line with similarly-equipped smartphones.
And there's the problem. The Nexus One is business as usual, if the reports are true. Where's Google the Disruptive Force we've come to expect? The Nexus One comes across as a fairly conventional consumer product--not unlike the Apple iPhone, Motorola Droid, and other high-end handsets. It's a me-too smart phone, not one that's going to turn the cell industry on its ear.
Why should we expect more from Google? Because the company has built a reputation for stirring up trouble in the tech industry--with consumers reaping the benefits. Whether it's providing free GPS navigation for Droid phones, free airport Wi-Fi for the holidays, free voicemail (and a lot more) with Google Voice, a free office suite with Google Docs, or free public DNS, the don't-be-evil search giant always has something interesting up its sleeve. A bold, consumer-friendly advance in wireless services would be welcome.
Now, I'm not expecting an earth-shaking announcement of, say, free cell service when Google launches the Nexus One. But an innovation that brings together Google's growing stable of telephony components would be welcome.
One examplemight be a data-only service plan that integrates Google Voice, the company's recently-acquired Gizmo5 (a Skype-like VoIP service), and the Google-branded smartphone to provide voice calls without a conventional calling plan.
Or how about a free, ad-sponsored calling plan? Personally, I wouldn't want this, but I'm sure a lot of people would. As it stands, an $80-a-month service plan sounds like business as usual. Hopefully, Google will surprise us next week with better news.
