Verizon Palm Pre Plus Vs. The Google Nexus One.
Both offer native multitouch, fantastic web browsers, and top notch multitasking, but differ in processer, memory and text entry.
In this smackdown Techno Buffalo compare:

• Specs
• Browser
• Speed
• Navigation
• App Stores
• Notifications
• Multitasking

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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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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.

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Here is why Cody Willard thinks Google’s gonna kill the Nexus One and their entire cell phone sales business sometime this year or next:
1. Retailing hardware isn’t what business Google is in.
2. They don’t wanna compete against their partners.
3. Google’s damaging its brand name.
4. The Nexus One is a stupid name anyway.
5. The cell phone business will hurt Google’s gross margins.

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Google on Friday confirmed that it had ditched upgrade pricing for its Nexus One smartphone and will issue $100 refunds to those T-Mobile customers who paid more.
Customers have the option to purchase a Nexus One with a two-year T-Mobile contract for $279 or without a contract for $529. Existing T-Mobile customers who opted to upgrade to a Nexus One, however, were originally charged $379 to make the change.

“We worked with T-Mobile and are now able to offer the higher upgrade discount to all existing fully eligible T-Mobile subscribers,” Google said in a statement. “This price is now $279. Refunds will be granted to all eligible subscribers who previously purchased the Nexus One at $379. This doesn’t affect any eligible customers who bought the phone for $279.”

Read the full story on PC Magazine.

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While we are mere hours away from the Google Android announcement which is set to announce the worst kept secret in Android right now, the Nexus One. While other goodies/phones/Googly stuff might await us, TMONEWS managed to take a peek around the Nexus One support page link. Originally discovered before the New Year, the link had originally taken us to a dead page. Now, we see that the page is live though surprisingly with a video of Android 2.0, not 2.1 as the Nexus One is set to release with. Unfortunately for those of you who might have been hoping for a surprise in the pricing, the Terms of Sale page are exactly what we have already seen and read.

However the page is now down again.

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Here is some information about the Nexus One from Cnet:

• It’s $530 unsubsidized. Google’s not going to be selling the phone at cost, like so many people considered. They’re not going to save us from the “making money off of hardware” culture we’ve got right now, so this is basically just another Android handset, albeit a really good one
• If you want it subsidized, you’ll have to sign up for a 2 year mandatory contract and pay $180 for the phone
• There’s only one rate plan: $39.99 Even More + Text + Web for $79.99 total
• Existing customers cannot keep their plan if they want a subsidized phone; they have to change to the one plan, and this only applies to accounts with one single line
• If that doesn’t fly with you, you have to buy the $530 unlocked version–this actually might save you money over two years if you already have a cheap plan
• Family plans, Flexpay, SmartAccess and KidConnect subscribers must buy the phone unlocked and unsubsidized for $530
• You can only buy five Nexus One phones per Google account
• There is language in the agreement of shipping outside the US
• Google will sell it at google.com/phone, which explains what they were doing with that page a few weeks ago
• Google will still call it the Nexus One apparently, and not the Google Phone
• If you cancel your plan before 120 days, you have to pay the subsidy difference between what you paid and the unsubsidized price, so $350 in this case. Or you can return the phone to Google. You also authorize them to charge this directly to your credit card.

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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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Does Google want to be our phone company?

The most interesting thing I’ve read about the Googlephone is the possibility that it will route all voice calls as VOIP via Google Voice. This is the “Google wants to be your telephone company scenario” that could quickly put the company at-odds with wireless carriers, Internet service providers, and most of the rest of the telecom universe.

Smart: This would be a living example of net neutrality at work, as this is something the incumbent carriers, with their huge voice infrastructure, would have a hard time accepting. If the Internet isn’t neutral, ISPs could theoretically stop Google’s VOIP plans.

Crazy: Google gives the telephone and cable companies a good example of how VOIP could hurt their bottom line, turn them into mere data pipeline companies, and potentially threaten their survival. This will harden their opposition to net neutrality and could help them find supporters in Congress, who prefer old, stable companies to upshots like Google.

If the Nexus One uses VOIP for voice calls, customers will only need to purchase wireless data service. Whether that will result in savings, or usher in usage-based data pricing is unknown. I suspect the latter.

Or, perhaps, Google will buy wireless data services in bulk and resell them to customers directly, effectively making Google the wireless carrier for the Nexus One.

Read the full story on PC World

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Today, some Twitpics shared by one user show those. As a bonus, he also shows off a bit of its HTC-innards.

The Nexus One is expected to be released early next year sold both unlocked from Google and in partnership with at least one major carrier.

Source: TechCrunch

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