Apparently, someone over at XDA has managed to overclock their Nexus One to 1.113 GHz. This comes not too long after the Motorola Droid was similarly overclocked at 1.1 GHz. While the margin of change, regarding processing power, was greater for the Droid, it wasn’t exactly running stable at 1.1 GHz. On XDA, they’re claiming that the overclocked Nexus One has been “perfectly stable.”

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Tom’s Guide has a review of the Google Nexus One. Here are some of the highlights:
Today, the Nexus One is readily available in the US for T-Mobile, and in the spring of this year will be available on Verizon and Vodafone (Europe). While the price is good for a device meant to compete with today’s best smartphones, the Nexus One does not deliver the same quality and finish as other models, both on the hardware and software fronts.
Hardware letdowns: the trackball is useless and shouldn’t be there in the first place. The glass is not properly aligned with the screen, which makes it easy to accidentally press outside of the touch-sensitive parts of the glass.

Yet, the hardware in the Nexus One is also one of the best designs of an Android model to date. While the Droid is bulkier and larger-than-life, the Nexus One is subtle yet powerful. The lack of video playback greatly limits the extraordinary screen quality, though Google has made sure that there are enough gimmicky graphical additions to soothe concerned customers.

Because of the current faulty network, we can’t recommend the Nexus One currently for professionals, who cannot afford drop calls. This may change, as Google has officially stated they are now looking into fixing the problem. The Nexus One is also set to release in the US on Verizon’s network, which according to Consumer Reports is the top carrier nationwide.

As far as Android devices go, the Nexus One is definitely the best. Its speed and general use, as well as the fast growing number of available applications, makes the device an adept competitor to today’s smartphones. It doesn’t beat today’s standard, the iPhone, or some of its better competitors like the Palm Pre, but it can certainly take third place.

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Is Google’s Nexus One a giant leap forwards for smartphones or the grandest of grand follies? Top10’s Dew Alam takes a look at the highest-profile launch since the Apollo moon missions…

When rumours and leaks of Google’s Nexus One surfaced on the web, the amount of media hype and speculation that followed was virtually inescapable. Fast forward to the phone’s launch earlier this month and the Nexus One was naturally plastered all over the headlines. This time it was all about the flood of customer complaints, which Google described as ‘a few kinks’. Things weren’t helped by the search giant’s novel idea of trying to answer all customer queries by e-mail. The resulting chaos that followed continues to send echoes down the depths of the tube that channel our world-wide web.
Initial reviews have already demonstrated the unresponsiveness of the phone’s otherwise very large and beautiful touchscreen among other minor problems. But ‘a few kinks’ are part and parcel of the launch of any brand new hardware so I’m sure HTC, I mean Google, will have those sorted out quickly. The Nexus One is most certainly a powerful phone and arguably the best Android phone according to some. And yet it is largely an unremarkable phone considering how much is expected of smartphones nowadays.

The phone has also been deemed to be too expensive. This is perhaps partly why it has suffered from poor launch sales, with a paltry 20,000 units sold in the first week compared to 250,000 units achieved by the Motorola Droid (known as the ‘Milestone’ in the Europe/Asia). If this was Google’s attempt to jumpstart the Android platform, so far it appears to be ineffective at best. Analysts estimated the Nexus One would go on to sell 5 to 6 million units this year. So 20,000 in the first week does not seem like a great start towards achieving such a landmark. Although in the interests of fairness, it’s probably worth noting that the Nexus One was hardly marketed unlike the Droid and it is being only sold through Google’s website.

However, it’s not a question of justifying the perceived failure of the Nexus One’s launch but the reasoning behind the contributing factors to this failure.

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We all know about the problems that Nexus One users have had keeping the device on a 3G network. Google is aware of this problem and is working on a solution. Now, N-One users have been burning down the Nexus One discussion Forum to complain about problems with the touchscreen. In some cases, a different letter than the one selected and pressed is showing up on the screen and in some cases, the device registers nothing at all on the display. Google is also aware of this problem and is working on a correction. Some have said that putting the handset to sleep and then waking it up will give temporary relief.

Read the full story on Phone Arena.

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iFixIt teared-down the Nexus One and here are some of the results:

The Nexus One, manufactured by HTC, sports:

• A 1 GHz Qualcomm (QCOM) Snapdragon processor.
• A 3.7″ 480×800 widescreen WVGA AMOLED display.
• A 5MP digital camera w/ LED flash that also records .mp4 video.
• 802.11n wireless capability for when you can’t depend on 3G.
• 7 hours of 3G talk time from a removable 3.7V, 1400 mAh lithium battery.

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It’s a nice phone. OK, it’s a very nice phone.
But nothing about the new Nexus One smartphone from Google Inc. comes close to warranting the mass hysteria that attended its unveiling last week.
The Nexus One isn’t revolutionary. Nor is it an iPhone killer — a phrase we should banish to the Tech Writers’ Hall of Cliches. It is, instead, a sleek phone with some advancements in display and processor technology that will surely be matched and then overtaken by others in the months ahead.
True, the rapidly evolving competition among Google, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Research in Motion Ltd. is fascinating to watch. And Google’s plunge into e-tailing — the Nexus One can only be bought directly from the company over the Web — has the potential to shake up how phones are sold.
Me, though, I find it hard to swoon over a business model.
The Nexus One, manufactured by Taiwan’s HTC Corp. to Google’s specifications, is similar in both size and shape to the iPhone — a smidge thinner and lighter, a trifle longer. It runs a new version of Google’s Android operating system that makes modest tweaks to the software that debuted on Motorola Inc.’s Droid two months ago.

T-Mobile

At launch, there isn’t much of a choice: The only carrier currently offering a plan is T-Mobile USA, the U.S. mobile-phone division of Deutsche Telekom AG, which charges $79.99 per month. In theory, you can also use a SIM card from AT&T Inc., but the phone wouldn’t be able to use AT&T’s 3G network for data, only its older, slower Edge network. Outside the U.S., Google is shipping the unlocked Nexus One to the U.K., Hong Kong and Singapore.
The choices will multiply over time. This spring will see a Nexus One that runs on the Verizon Wireless network, which uses a different technology than AT&T and T-Mobile. Also in the spring, Vodafone Group Plc is lined up to offer a service plan for the Nexus One in Europe.
Google is responsible for delivering the phone — the one I ordered on launch day last week arrived in less than 48 hours — and will be the first point of contact if anything goes wrong.
Weakening the carriers’ control and compelling them to compete with each other may eventually put more power into consumers’ hands — and, of course, Google’s.
While all this is interesting, it’s hardly earth- shattering. When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, it changed the entire way people thought about wireless devices, ushering in the era of the mobile Web.
The Nexus One? It’s just a very nice phone.

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While we are mere hours away from the Google Android announcement which is set to announce the worst kept secret in Android right now, the Nexus One. While other goodies/phones/Googly stuff might await us, TMONEWS managed to take a peek around the Nexus One support page link. Originally discovered before the New Year, the link had originally taken us to a dead page. Now, we see that the page is live though surprisingly with a video of Android 2.0, not 2.1 as the Nexus One is set to release with. Unfortunately for those of you who might have been hoping for a surprise in the pricing, the Terms of Sale page are exactly what we have already seen and read.

However the page is now down again.

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Most recent leaks suggest that the Nexus One would not be an unsubsidized and unlocked model. Reuters claims, citing unidentified sources, that T-Mobile will finally discount the Android phone for those customers who want to sign up for a contract. The phone would also sell through Google’s website directly and would be available on January 5th, just in time for CES.

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(Free-Press-Release.com) December 17, 2009 –
Google said in a corporate blog on Saturday that it has developed a phone based on its Android mobile operating system and distributed it to employees to try out. Soon after, pictures of the phone surfaced on the Twitter feeds of employees and outside bloggers with details that the device would be launched next month and sold directly to consumers. The new phone would be capable of operating on any network, according to a source close to the company who was not authorized to comment publicly.
The Google phone will use what is probably the fastest smartphone chip on the planet and become the first non-Windows smartphone to tap into this kind of processing power. Conspicious among the Google phone’s leaked specifications is the Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm. Snapdragon is the first gigahertz-class ARM-based processor to be used in smartphones. (In current implementations, Snapdragon runs at 1GHz.)

This is clearly now the “flagship” Android device; it’s no longer the Motorola “Droid.” In many ways the Droid is clunky and awkward by comparison. It even appears to be faster than the iPhone 3GS.

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Google Nexus One is the number one site for news about the Google Android Phone – Nexus One.

Press Release here.

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eWEEK has read some of the 1,400-plus Nexus One reports and cherry-picked some points for you to enjoy, here are some of them:

1. Nexus One Named for Blade Runner Robots
Daring Fireball noted the name Nexus One appears to be a nod to the line of replicant cyborgs from late sci-fi author Philip K. Dicks “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” upon which the 1982 film Blade Runner was based. The New York Times went deeper, speaking to Dick’s daughter, who claimed Google did not consult her family about using the Nexus One name. I smell a handsome payout in the Dick family’s future. One other note: Things didn’t turn out so well for the replicants. Superstitious, anyone?

3. The Nexus One Is Just Another Android Phone
Slate.com’s Farhad Manjoo noted: “For the Google Phone to be truly stellar, Google would have to imbue it with exclusive features—violating the core Google principle of platform independence. I just don’t see that happening; it’s not in the company’s DNA to make software that works on one device alone.” So every phone will be a Google Phone. That may be the single best argument against a Google Phone boasting exclusivity.

6. Nexus One for Consumers? You Must Be Crazy
Industry analyst Jack Gold has a markedly different theory: “Despite the widespread conjecture of the past few days, it is highly unlikely that this phone will ever be offered to the general consumer, let alone sold by Google directly to end users.” Gold sees the Nexus One as a test bed for several thousand Google workers and developers. “Testing is the path that Google has chosen for this device, and not the path of competing with its customers.” The company wouldn’t alienate Motorola, Samsung and the carriers.

7. Then Again
With Apple’s iPhone dominating the smartphone space, Google may believe that it must roll out and subsidize the Nexus One — a drastic, bold move by any measure — to gain serious headway in the mobile market. It’s not so much about the devices as it is about the mobile searches and the ads Google wants to show along with THEM. Sure, Google serves ads on Google searches executed through the iPhone now, but who is to say Apple won’t shut Google out for a better deal with Bing?

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