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.”

Source: Pocket Now

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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

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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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• Nexus One vs Droid vs iPhone [Comparison Chart] (mashable.com)

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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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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)

Source: foneareana

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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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• Google Nexus phone to debut Tuesday? (cnn.com)

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The Nexus One, Google’s secret smartphone isn’t out yet but is already generating a lot of buzz online.
Endgadget’s Chris Ziegler said on Wednesday that the Nexus One will be available on January 5th on an invite-only basis to start. “Our tipster doesn’t have information on how those invites are going to be determined, other than the fact that it’s Google doing the inviting — if we had to guess, current registered developers are a strong possibility,” he wrote.

Also on Wednesday, Gizmodo’s Jason Chen wrote about a “clandestine meeting with a source” who allowed him to give the Nexus One a test run, to the tune of a rave review. Mr. Chen went so far as to call it “Google’s Droid killer,” and wrote that, in comparison to Motorola’s Droid, “it’s thin, it’s fast, it’s better in every way.”

Read the full story on the WSJ

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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.

Want to learn more about the Google Phone?
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Press Release here.

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Greg Sterling is a Contributing Editor at Search Engine Land, and he had the Google Phone. Here are some of his thoughts from his blog post:

• It looked to me like a thinner Droid Eris with a larger, more impressive screen (both are made by HTC; Nexus One has no “Sense” interface)
• The screen resolution was great and crisp
• The stand-out dimension of the phone in my brief time with it was its speed; it was extremely fast (running on the T-Mobile network)
• It features the “new” version of the Android Market, which is a considerable step up from what exists now

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 appears to be faster than the iPhone 3GS but I didn’t have any side-by-side comparison opportunity. It has multi-tasking and Google Navigation, Voice Search and so on. But the iPhone still represents a more “complete” and “integrated” device in my view. Others will probably disagree. Indeed, this is probably the first Android device that is a true substitute for the iPhone. That represents danger for Apple unless it comes out from under the AT&T relationship next year; Android could blunt iPhone sales.

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