WireFly are always hard at work evaluating the latest and greatest phones and they have written a nice little summary comparison of the Google Nexus One vs HTC Incredible:

In several critical areas, the HTC Incredible is the Nexus One trapped in a different body. Both devices are Android-powered phones made by HTC, and share the same amount of RAM and same 1GHz Snapdragon processor. While the Google Nexus One runs the vanilla version of Android known widely as the Google Experience, the Incredible uses HTC’s custom-designed user interface built over top of Android. The Incredible also has a more powerful camera than the Nexus One

Source: Android Spin

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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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Sony Ericsson’s Chief Executive Bert Norberg has told a Swedish publication that Google wanted Sony Ericsson to build the Android-running, Snapdragon-powered smartphone, the Nexus One. As CEO Norberg revealed, Sony Ericsson had actually turned down the request, claiming that they were only loyal to Sony Ericsson and to stick with making their own in-house hardware.

Source: Android Community

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As expected, the Desire is nothing more than a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Nexus One, but with the HTC Sense UI that many are claiming to be critical to having a proper Android experience.

It’s 119 mm tall, 60 mm wide, 11.9 mm thick, with a weight of 135 grams. Where that extra 5 grams comes from is a mystery since the Google Phone weighs only 130 grams. It runs the latest version of Android, 2.1, has a 1 GHz Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) Snapdragon processor, 576 MB of RAM, quadband GSM/EDGE, dual band (900 MHz, 2100 MHz) 7.2 Mbps HSPA, 1400 mAh battery, WiFi, GPS, accelerometer, compass, and all the other stuff typically associated with a high end smartphone.

HTC say this device will come out in early Q2, and T-Mobile UK recently shot out a tweet saying that they’re going to be selling this device starting March 26th. No word on USA availability.

Source: Into Mobile.

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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

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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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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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ABC News has published this doomsday piece by Michael S. Malone, who notes that while Google’s Nexus One device is getting a lot of buzz, it won’t rightfully challenge Apple’s iPhone hegemony.

Google is expected to unveil the device Jan. 5 at an Android press event at the company’s Mountain View, Calif., Googleplex. We know the device is made by HTC, runs Android 2.1 and is super fast, with a Motorola Droid-like big touchscreen.

Documents indicate Google will sell the phone online for $529.99 unlocked or $179.99 through T-Mobile with a two-year contract.

Read the full story on eWeek.

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