Vodafone subscribers over in the UK have something to celebrate over as reports are filtering in that Google’s Nexus One phone should be hitting Vodafone UK by the end of this month.

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Bouygues Telecom is the first French mobile carrier to list the Google Nexus One on its official website.

Unfortunately, Bouygues doesn’t say when exactly the Nexus One will be available – but it might happen this month, when the Google superphone should also be available via Verizon in the US, and via Vodafone in the UK.

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The Google Nexus One has been one of the biggest launches of 2010, thanks to the Google’s name behind it.

Just a couple of months later and and the HTC’s own branded Desire was launched, with almost exactly the same spec and look, but HTC’s device comes with a couple of additions that Google decided to strip out of the device.

So, which wins?

Screen
Both the Google Nexus One and HTC Desire feature the same crisp 3.7-inch, 480×800 pixel AMOLED capacitive touchscreen.

Body
Although the Google Nexus One and HTC Desire have almost identical insides, the design is slightly different. To the naked eye, they’re the same size,but the Nexus One shaves off 2mm from the width and 0.5mm of the depth.

Navigation
We’ve already mentioned the HTC Desire’s optical trackpad and would say it’s certainly the easier way to navigate around the Android device, with more accuracy than even the touchscreen.

UI
Being a Google device rather than an HTC -branded one, the Nexus One uses the Android Vanilla UI, albeit running on Android 2.1.

Verdict
It’s a close battle, but the HTC Desire wins, thanks to its better UI (including multitouch), wider availability and optical trackpad.

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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.

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The Google Nexus One AT&T Edition has appeared in FCC’s database, while Motorola promises a new phone for Google’s Web store soon.

The Google Nexus One is currently only available with T-Mobile 3G support, but a new version supporting AT&T’s 3G network has now been spotted in FCC’s database. According to Engadget, the AT&T version will also work with Canadian carriers Rogers, Bell and Telus, as well as European carriers.

Furthermore, Motorola recently said that they’re planning to offer an Android smartphone made specifically for Google’s new Web store too. It’s not yet known which carrier networks this phone will work on, but Google said at the Web store introduction to stay tuned for Verizon Wireless support as well.

Source: Info Sync World

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PC Pro has a first review of the Nexus One; Here are some of the highlights:

Google UK held an open evening for journalists last night, with the introduction of Chrome OS being its major theme. However, it also had four samples of the Google Nexus One for us attendees to play with – thus this first look review.It soon became obvious why the Nexus One has received a muted reaction in the States, where it’s already on sale. There’s no feeling of luxury as you pick up the plasticky device in your hand, and if sat in the ranks of phones at The Carphone Warehouse it would look distinctly anonymous.

The screen has many positives though. It’s very bright and, to give it its due, it is at least responsive to the touch. Probably the biggest plus of all is the resolution: a magnificent 800 x 480. That’s a match for HTC’s Touch HD2, even if you can’t see text quite so well on the Nexus One’s 3.7in screen as you can on the Touch HD2’s 4.3in screen.

But there are two big omissions from the Nexus One. First, where is the clever integration of social-networking services, which Palm was wittering on about a whole year ago when it announced the (ultimately disappointing) Palm Pre?

Perhaps; I don’t know the US market well enough to make a judgement on that one. But I think it’s also telling that Google gave away 3,000 Nexus One phones to developers at a recent conference; perhaps this is the real point of the device, rather than as a phone intended for sale. It’s a platform with a fast processor and huge screen: both ingredients Google believes to be vitally important.

For everyone else, though, you’re better off with an accomplished Android phone like the HTC Hero – which will be upgradeable to Android 2. And by the time the Nexus One officially comes out in the UK (you can buy it today from the Google US site if you so wish) the Motorola Backflip, and no doubt a number of other Android 2.1-powered devices, will be on sale too. I know which I’d buy.

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If rumours have to be believed, the Motorola Shadow is going to be Google’s second smartphone, likely to be called the Nexus Two. It could all be true since the Google Nexus One didn’t have a hardware QWERTY keyboard and introducing a device with one seems like the right idea.

The handset is quite a looker with its black and white colour combination topped with red accents.

The current rumoured features include:

• 4.3″ Touchscreen with 850*480 resolution
• HDMI Port, QWERTY Keyboard
• 8MP Camera with HD Video Recording (1080p)

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It looks like one of the members at XDA has his hands on the Google Nexus One and you know what that means… T-R-O-U-B-L-E. And that spells awesome if you’re an Android fan. One of the coolest cosmetic things to come out of it is the video that plays when you turn your Nexus One on:

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Engadget Dec. 14 scored new pictures and details of the Google Nexus One 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. Only T-Mobile and AT&T propel GSM in the U.S., and T-Mobile looks to be the phone’s sole supporter. Some are accusing Google of hypocrisy after Google Android engineering chief Andy Rubin said in October Google would not build hardware, implying that Google would not produce its own phone.

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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