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Nexus One Teardown

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:37:03 +0000

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.

Launching Google Phone Nexus One

admin — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:50:13 +0000

(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.

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Press Release here.

Inside the Google phone: A ’snappy’ chip

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:21:45 +0000

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.)
And the Google phone–aka, Nexus One–will have some interesting company, though both of the rival phones that use the chip are in the Windows Mobile camp: the Toshiba TG01 and HTC HD2.
Interestingly, all of these phones have, relatively speaking, large screens: more than four inches in diagonal size. The Google phone will also add high-resolution (based on an OLED touchscreen) to that.

Read the full story on Cnet.