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Rumor: Nexus One getting major OTA update soon?

admin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:15:46 +0000

Phandroid has pointed out a very interesting rumor circulating amongst the French. According to Smartphone France, the Nexus One is set to receive an over-the-air update in the coming days.

Source: Android Guys.

iPad A4 processor vs iPhone 3G S Cortex A8, Nexus One Snapdgragon processor

admin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:04:44 +0000

Apart from a larger and better resolution touchscreen display, the iPad also boasts of a brand new chip running at the core, an Apple A4 1GHz processor to be exact. So, how does this new processor stack up against Cortex A8 processor of the iPhone 3G S and the Nexus One’s 1GHz Snapdragon processor?

Source: PMP

Verizon Nexus One Release DATE

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:22:02 +0000

While neither a Verizon Nexus Onedeal nor a Verizon Apple iPhone deal have been confirmed, online chatter this week says the VerizonNexus One will be announced March 23. The CDMA Nexus One is expected to be announced March 23 at CTIA 2010 in Las Vegas says reports.

Source: Lalate

Apple goes after Google’s Nexus One in patent actions

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:36:13 +0000

Apple on Tuesday took aim at Google’s smartphone as it accused Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC, which makes Google’s flagship Nexus One, of violating 20 of Apple’s patents, some of which were issued in the mid-1990s.

As many as 10 of those violations involve the Nexus One, Apple said in a complaint submitted Tuesday to the U.S. International Trade Organization (ITC). Apple also filed a similar lawsuit in federal court in Delaware that cited 10 different patents. That lawsuit, however, did not specify the HTC-made phones that allegedly violated Apple’s patents.

Apple did not name Google in the federal lawsuit or in the complaint filed with the ITC.

Apple also revealed that it was among the first customers to purchase a Google Nexus One. To prove it had examined the device, it bought the smartphone on Jan. 5, 2010, the first day Google put it up for sale on its Web store.

Read the full story on Computer World.

Nexus One Sales: Slow Month is No Surprise

admin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:54:26 +0000

Sales of Google’s Nexus One didn’t improve over the smartphone’s first month
according to Flurry, the same firm that reported limp debut week sales.
Flurry says Google sold 80,000 Nexus Ones in January, after selling 20,000 during week one, the Wall Street Journal reports. Those figures aren’t official; they’re based on mobile app usage by newly-detected phones, divided by the types of phones detected. The numbers suggest that Nexus One sales haven’t significantly sped up or slowed down over the course of a month.

By comparison, Flurry says Apple’s iPhone sold 600,000 units in its first month, and Motorola’s Droid sold 575,000 units (an interesting comparison in itself).

Read the full story on PC World

Google’s Nexus One Adds Multi-Touch Capabilities

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:15:59 +0000

Google has announced that its Nexus One smartphone will be up-graded.

The new up-grade will include multi-touch capabilities, enabling the phone to work in a similar way to Apple’s iPhone, in that users can pinch their fingers to zoom in and out. A feature that other smartphones such as the Palm Pre already came installed with.

The new up-grade will also include additional software improvements and fixes to technical bugs. It will tackle some of the commonly complained about 3G problems.

One of the software improvements is to the Maps application, making it a lot easier for users to save places of interest and revisit them at a later date. The maps application will also be enriched with a night mode, which will automatically adjust the users screen if they are viewing maps in the dark.

The up-dates can be downloaded directly onto the Nexus One via the phone’s internet, without having to go into a store or onto a computer.

Source: Fresh Business Thinking

Google Nexus One smartphone

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:25:41 +0000

NOT SINCE Apple’s Iphone came out has another mobile device garnered so many column inches, but then not since the original Iphone has a real contender hit the market. The Nexus One doesn’t have to beat all comers, but it has to beat the Iphone and in almost every way it does just that.

For Google, the Nexus One represents the first consumer oriented physical product it has produced and as debuts go, the search giant takes the biscuit with fantastic hardware and software both. By using HTC’s Bravo the hardware in most cases far surpasses that of anything that’s out there now, with the exception of HTC’s own HD2.

In Short

The Nexus One is great package. You get cutting edge hardware coupled to an operating system that is far better than Windows Mobile and far more customisable than on the Iphone. There’s very little to dislike including the fact that the Nexus is trying to stick it to Jobs’ Mob through offering greater openness. Google says the Nexus will arrive in Blighty sometime in the Spring and we say that’s enough notice for you to start saving up now.

The Good
Superb hardware specification, runs Android.

The Bad
Application incompatibilities between Android devices.

The Ugly
Not directly available in the UK yet.

Bartender’s Score
9/10

Read the FULL review at The Inquirer

Apple co-founder Wozniak has a soft spot for Google’s Nexus One

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:34:56 +0000

Turns out Wozniak didn’t have to wait for Google’s new Nexus One phone. Google exec Andy Rubin, a longtime friend, gave him one. And that’s how Google got an unexpected plug.

“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.”

Read the full story on LA Times.

Nexus One sells only 20,000 phones its first week

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:40:35 +0000

According to mobile analytics firm Flurry,Google’s Nexus One phone sold a mere 20,000 units in its first week in the market.

The Flurry report goes on to compare the Nexus One launch with other smartphones, including the Motorola Droid, which sold 250,000 units in its first week. In its comparison to the iPhone 3GS launch, however, the report is a bitdisingenuous. The iPhone 3GS was an update to an existing & wildly popular product, not a completely new product launch. In that light, the 1.6 million iPhones sold in the first week of the 3GS launch, while indeed 80 times the number of Nexus One sales, aren’t a true apples-to-Apple comparison.

Instead, a better comparison may be to sales of the original iPhone. According to Apple’s Q3 2007 results, released on 25 July 2007, the iPhone sold 270,000 units during the quarter. The original iPhone was released nearly a month earlier, on June 29. That works out to around 10,000 original iPhones sold per dayfollowing its 2007 release, which dovetails nicely with an early 2008 analysis of iPhone sales from Ars Technica. Far from the flabbergasting sales lead of the 3GS, the original iPhone sold about 3.5 times as many units in its 2007 launch as Nexus One did in 2010; also, the original iPhone sold for a hefty $599, even with an AT&T contract, while the Nexus One is $179 with a new T-Mobile contract ($529 without).

Read the full story on TUAW

Google Phone Threatens Droid More Than IPhone

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:55:36 +0000

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.

Read the full story on BusinessWeek