Google Nexus One : An Impressive Phone
The Google Nexus One has been hugely marketed in the last few months as an iPhone beater, offering a wide range of features, it certainly has the ability to do just that. But the handset, built by HTC and supplied to the consumer with Google branding, must turn out to be more than the sum of its parts in order to have a chance against the massively popular iPhone. The Google Nexus One comes with an LCD display that is 3.7 inches diagonally, a proximity sensor for the auto shut down feature, an accelerometer and the multi-touch support, though the latter requires an update of the operating system. Internally the handset can store 512 megabytes of random access memory, with a further 512 megabytes that is used by the operating system (read-only memory). A 4 gigabyte SD card is supplied with the Google Nexus One though the handset can support up to 32 gigabyte cards. As with all Smartphones, WiFi is available along with 3G, Bluetooth and GPS.
The Google Nexus One has a processor with capable speeds of 1 Ghz, meaning that it will be one of the fastest Smartphones available. It will also be running the most up-to-date version of the famed Android software, version 2.1. For Google, it is their first foray into the Smartphone market, and the Nexus One will be the first phone to have downloadable updates and patches for the operating system and other applications, available via the internet. Google released an update for the Android 2.1 OS, relatively soon after the release of the Nexus One enabling the support of multi-touch features of the screen, meaning that the Google Nexus One is one of the first handsets to have such features as ‘pinch zoom’. Contrast to what you may have read in internet reports or newspapers regarding problems with the Google Nexus One’s keypad or Google’s customer service, the Nexus One is actually a very good Smartphone. It is very common to hear the phrase ‘iPhone beater’ around the new releases of Smartphones but, in reality, most handsets that carry the Android operating system are content with just being ahead of much larger brands like Samsung, RIM (BlackBerry) and Nokia. The Google Nexus One, being offered by a huge online business, means that data transfer via the internet is of paramount importance to the success of the handset, and will certainly be a feature that Google are sure to hone to the highest standards possible.
To summarize, the Google Nexus One is an extremely capable competitor to the Apple iPhone, bringing a huge number of features and abilities that make it a hard choice between the two. Both handsets do things differently and there are many things one can do but the other cannot. You will be happy with either of them, so it really just boils down to personal preference and cost.
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