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The Nexus One, Apple iPhone Competition

admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:55:47 +0000

Google launched the Nexus One on January 5, 2010. This is a slim cellular phone with a touch screen that operates on its Android operating system. This new phone will present direct competition to the Droid and iPhone cellular phones. The fact that the Nexus One is the only GSM phone that comes unlocked to work with any cellular carrier will make it very appealing to many people.

The Nexus One is manufactured in Taiwan by HTC and is being sold through Verizon as well as by Google. T-Mobile and Vodaphone support the Nexus One. If you want an unlocked smart phone this may be the one to buy. When you purchase this phone you can use any GSM cellular network you wish. The Nexus One has the option of being purchased either unlocked or linked to one of several cellular carriers.

The specifications of the Nexus One are that it is 3.7 inches and has a WVGA AMOLED Touch screen. Features include a compass, GPS, 5 mega pixel camera with built in LED Flash, 512 MB Flash Memory, 4GB micro SD card, expandable to 32GB, and accelerometer. The phone operates on the Android 2.1 operating system with A2DP stereo Bluetooth and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR. It also features light sensors and voice recognition in all apps and noise cancellation advanced technology.

In comparison to the iPhone and Droid the Nexus One features have five additional home screens that are easy to navigate, 3D wallpapers that react to touch and have background animation, quickly search for applications, navigate the icons as they wrap around a 3D cube, and voice features allow you to update Facebook, ask queries on map locations, and check email.

You can purchase the Nexus One through Google unlocked that you can just continue with your existing service or switch to another carrier. Another way to purchase the Nexus one is directly from a service provider. If you want to purchase from Google just go to www.google.com/phone. You can find all the technical information about the phone. You can take their 3D tour to really see the phone. This will give you good ideas of the phones features in order for you to see if it is the right phone for you. To purchase from the web site is quick and easy.

If you purchase the Nexus One unlocked you should have service with either GSM service 3G/UMTS Bands (2100/AWS/900) or (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) frequencies. The phone costs $529 before taxes if your purchase it unlocked but you get free overnight shipping.

If $529 seems a lot you can purchase the Nexus One from a cellular carrier at a discounted rate if you sign a two-year contract. The cost of the phone is $179 if you purchase in this method. You can purchase in this way on the Google web site by selecting the T-Mobile option. All you have to do is provide your personal information and subscribe to the phone service. You can even transfer your current service.

Upgrade Your Status with the Nexus One Smart Phone

admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:21:37 +0000

Google’s newest phone, the Nexus One, is becoming more and more popular with each passing day. The phone is sleek and sexy and has something for everyone – from gadget lovers to everyday business professionals. The phone itself has a very sensitive touch screen as well as four soft key buttons and a clickable track ball on the front. Thus, even with just simple navigating users have various ways to do it.

Customization and usability seem to be Google’s mantras with the Nexus One. The home screen is fully customizable. Users can place shortcuts to any of thousands of applications they can download from the phone’s marketplace just about anywhere on their home screen. All settings are customizable as well, which helps to make this phone desirable to anyone.

The application marketplace itself, which is the Android marketplace, has thousands of free applications from basic games to productivity tools. Professionals will find the organization and planning applications useful while the gaming crowd will love the games that take advantage of the phone’s built in accelerometer, allowing them to steer cars with a flick of their wrists.

The phone also has 3G connectivity, which makes it fast as lightning when surfing the web on the go. Moreover, when you are any place that has an available wireless network, you can get even more speed by connecting your Nexus One to it. The phone has Bluetooth and even a 5 megapixel camera with built in flash through an LED.

The Nexus One is also a great music phone, exemplified by the 3.5 mm headphone jack that comes with the phone. All Android phones come with the Amazon Music Marketplace, which enables phone users to purchase music directly from their phone. And because the Nexus One has a micro SD card slot that can handle up to 32 GB of extra storage, the chances of your running out of room to store your music is very slim. The Android Market also has numerous other music applications that many people like, including applications that allow you to listen to streaming online music.

Currently the Nexus One is only available for purchase through Google itself with two different buying options. If you are willing to pay $529, you can purchase an unlocked Nexus One, which will allow you to use it with any mobile network you desire. Otherwise, if you do not mind adding two years to your T-Mobile contract, you can get this cool phone for just $179. The Nexus One will also be available through other mobile carriers at discounted prices in the next few months. It is this cross company approach that has nearly assured Google’s success with this new phone.

So, if you want to be the next one with the Nexus One, head over to www.google.com/phone and get yours today. You will not regret investing in this phone; it will provide hours of entertaining and productivity to your life. You can also find full technical specs and a three dimensional tour of the phone at this site.

Nexus One Vs iPhone – The Battle Has Just Begun

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:19:35 +0000

Apple’s iPhone has cornered the smartphone market, right? Perhaps, but a new phone operating system, Android, has started making ground in the same arena. Android is Google’s mobile operating system, which, unlike Apple’s iPhone, has shown up on mobile phones from many different mobile companies, including T-Mobile and Verizon.

This cross company approach has caused Android to gain in popularity because it does not project the exclusionist attitude that many consumers see Apple’s iPhone as portraying. The Nexus One, the newest Android phone to hit the market, has taken this cross company approach even farther – Google is offering an unlocked version of the phone that can be used with nearly any mobile company’s sim card.

Apple’s iPhone does have an extraordinary and astronomical collection of applications available for the phone, but Android has an up and coming market place as well. In fact, the market place currently offers nearly 60,000 applications to android users, many of which are available for free. And while the iPhone has a lot of internal memory (either 16 or 32 GB), there is no way to expand it. The Nexus One on the other hand, comes with a 4 GB micro SD card, but the phone can currently handle up to a 32 GB micro SD card, and if previous Android phones are any indicator, as micro SD card sizes continue to grow, Google will offer updates to their operating system so that it can handle larger card sizes.

The iPhone also does not have a removable battery, which helps to make the phone slim and sleek, but can also be annoying when the battery dies. Though Apple boasts that the battery can last an extremely long time, everyone who has ever had any kind of cell phone knows that sometimes batteries just do not last and if or when this happens with the iPhone, you have to send it back to Apple to get it fixed. You can not simply go out and buy another battery for it. The Nexus One has a removable battery and is still very thin and sleek – only 59.8 millimeters wide by 11.5 millimeters deep and 119 millimeters high and still just weighs 130 grams with the battery installed.

Finally, though the iPhone does seem to have the market cornered on being a music playing phone, Android and the Nexus One are coming on strong as well. Android phones come preloaded with the Amazon mp3 marketplace, which enables users to purchase songs directly from their phone. The preloaded music player on Android is also very good and plays are variety of music formats, some of which the iPhone can not handle. Moreover, there is a multitude of free applications available on the Android application marketplace that offers a lot more music playing options.

Though the iPhone seems to be the popular choice, the Nexus One’s cross company approach and large amount of customization options makes it a strong competitor. And with Google always trying to improve its products through continuous updates, this phone may just be the top phone before you know it.

Get Your Favorite “Smart App” On With the Nexus One Smart Phone

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:30:35 +0000

During the first week of 2010, Google began a “soft launch” of its new Android phone – the Nexus One. This light (130 gram) phone is the Internet search giant’s latest admission to the competitive smartphone market, which already has big hitters like Apple’s iPhone and the Blackberry series providing strong competition.

Android, Google’s mobile operating system, made its first well-known debut through the cell phone company T-Mobile and the phone model G1 last year in the United States. Since then, various other phone models with the Android operating system have appeared on the market, including the myTouch and also various Verizon models.

Like all the other Android models, the Nexus One boasts a fast reacting operating system that allows you to fully customize your home screen and multitask. Moreover, Android’s ability to automatically sync email, contacts, and calendar appointments from the phone with the phone user’s gmail account is a very unique feature. This feature keeps every important piece of data on the phone updated with changes in gmail and vice versa; this means that the phone user always has an accurate backup.

Android also has an application market on all of its phones that give users access to over 60,000 applications, many of which are free. There are applications from regular games to productivity applications like gas mileage calculators and even gps navigation applications. This market helps to make Android phones fully customizable because users can download as many applications as their phones can hold (which can be expanded with a micro SD card slot). Though this market contains nowhere near the amount of applications Apple’s iPhone offers its users, it is catching up quickly. This is especially due to Google offering application developing contests, which offer great incentives to professional and even weekend developers to start creating applications for the Android market.

Unlike previous Android phones, the Nexus One has a 3.5mm stereo jack, so users do not have to buy an adapter to convert the mini USB plug to a stereo jack. Moreover the new Nexus One has a 5-megapixel camera, where previous phones only had at most a little more than 3 megapixels. The camera also has an LED flash, which is a new edition as well and makes the camera much more useful.

Most notably, the Nexus One is being offered as an unlocked phone directly from Google. This means that you can buy this phone and use it with a sim card from nearly any mobile provider. The unlocked Nexus One retails for more than 500 dollars, but if you are a T-Mobile customer, or willing to become a T-Mobile customer, and extend your contract by two years, then you can purchase the phone for less than 180 dollars. Whether you choose to purchase the unlocked phone or the one for T-Mobile, the Nexus One offers some wonderful features that you will not get anywhere else – the phone is not only pretty but incredibly useful. You will not regret your investment.