“I was impressed right away,” Wozniak said.

The Apple co-founder praising Google’s bold gambit to compete with Apple got the blogs buzzing. Wozniak first confessed his feelings to a local NBC affiliate a few weeks ago. Asked what his current favorite gadget is, Wozniak told host Jessica Aguirre: “The latest one. It’s a non-Apple product. It’s one that just came out yesterday.”

So Wozniak had to quickly clarify that he had not bolted from the iPhone. He, in fact, carries two at all times. The self-proclaimed gadget freak says he fields so many questions about mobile phones that he tests them all, even the BlackBerry, which he made his primary phone for four months just to learn what a BlackBerry user “knows and does and uses.” He estimates that he has owned about 100 mobile phones over the last two decades.

“I’ve got six phones on me right now,” he said. “Of the six, three are very good phones: the iPhone, the [Motorola] Droid and the Nexus One.”

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Layers of the onion that is the Nexus One Google phone continue to get peeled away by industry insiders, as Engadget Dec. 14 scored new pictures and details of the smartphone that will challenge Apple’s iPhone as a new GSM device.
Engadget said the device boasts microSD expansion, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, and covers quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE with UMTS/HSUPA on 850/1,700/1,900 frequencies.
A Google spokesperson declined to comment on any of the details, pointing instead to the company’s blog post about how it gave its employees a phone, which seems to be the Nexus One, to test.
Only T-Mobile and AT&T, sole carrier of the iPhone, propel GSM in the United States, and AllThingsDigital said T-Mobile will indeed support the Nexus One. The device won’t work on Verizon Wireless or Sprint.

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