Official: Google Announces the Nexus One

[JMcEntegart]

Well, here it is. The announcement we've all been waiting for.

Official: Google Announces the Nexus One : Read more

 

[ecnovaec]

finally I can fill my iphone with 9mm holes like I've wanted to since I bought it! Although it's a tough choice between the nexus and nokia n900

 

[doomtomb]

It is also confirmed that Verizon will get the phone too later on. To me though, I don't see what all the hype is for. Engadget reviewed the phone and it's basically your average HTC smartphone. New and powerful it may be, but nothing vastly better than what's available now. iPhone and Droid don't need to be worried yet.

 

[darkknight22]

Nice but I don't see anything to write home about. Maybe it's just because I'm a tactile button kind of guy. It looks the same as every other touch phone these days.

What I am a huge fan of is the option to buy off contract. I may not ever end up doing it because it's a huge sum of money, but I find it a huge slap in the face to Apple's closed door attitude and that's OK by me.

 

[deadlockedworld]

This demo website sucks. It barely shows me anything on the phone. They should have made all the phone buttons work on the page.

 

[deadlockedworld]

Damnit--what were they thinking?

This should have been presented by an executive dude in a black turtleneck.

 

[JMcEntegart]

[citation][nom]doomtomb[/nom]It is also confirmed that Verizon will get the phone too later on. To me though, I don't see what all the hype is for. Engadget reviewed the phone and it's basically your average HTC smartphone. New and powerful it may be, but nothing vastly better than what's available now. iPhone and Droid don't need to be worried yet.[/citation]

I mentioned Verizon in the article and I agree. Nice as it is, it's a HTC-built phone running Android. Nothing new there. One thing that's starting to bug me is that HTC phones are all starting to look the same.

 

[zak_mckraken]

pretty nifty text to speech that includes the ability to add punctuation just by saying "period" or "comma."

Call me a nitpicker, but, if I say something to my phone, it's "speech to text", not "text to speech". It's a very nice feature indeed though. Speech-to-text engines are way more precise than they used to be when it took more time correcting your dictation than actually writing the stuff.

 

[bydesign]

Under spec'd storage, and unimpressive when compared to a normal HTC. Just don't see this being a hit in the least.

 

[d_kuhn]

crap... specs looked awesome up until the 512meg... that SERIOUSLY sucks and is a fatal flaw for me. What the hell were they thinking?

16gig is MINIMUM storage for my needs... 32 or more is what I'd really want to have.

 

[dogofwars]

We don't have it in Canada unfortunately 🙁

 

[rsud]

512MB for app storage?!?!?!

Is this a joke (or is this thing a joke)?!?!

On my iTouch I have 32GB for app storage (or music), same on iPhone.

Who designed this? Someone out of 1999?

Can a memory card be put in? But the memory cards didn't hold apps last decade. Is this thing any different?

 

[stratplaya]

512MB for storage?? If Microsoft pulled something that lame the Google/Apple fanboys would be wetting themselves.

 

[Confused Stu]

Those of you laughing at the 512MB storage compared to your Apple products, do try to remember it has a MicroSDHC slot and looks like it'll come with a 4GB card included. Currently 32GB MicroSD cards are available, with 64GB not rumoured to be too far away.

Apple may not believe you should have the choice to swap memory cards to increase your storage, but that doesn't mean the rest of world has to lock things down that way too.

 

[doc70]

if it gets rooted and with a custom ROM that allows to install apps on microSD card, I'm getting one...
Hopefully it won't take too long for the developers to do it.

 

[doc70]

[citation][nom]dogofwars[/nom]We don't have it in Canada unfortunately[/citation]
It will probably pop up on websites and eBay...

 

[d_kuhn]

The MicroSD slot helps a lot... but applications can only be installed to the internal memory, which may be an issue depending on how many apps you want to install.

 

[Shadow703793]

[citation][nom]rsud[/nom]512MB for app storage?!?!?!Is this a joke (or is this thing a joke)?!?!On my iTouch I have 32GB for app storage (or music), same on iPhone.Who designed this? Someone out of 1999?Can a memory card be put in? But the memory cards didn't hold apps last decade. Is this thing any different?[/citation]
Yes, unlike your iTouch/Iphone you can get a microSD card to store the extra apps.

@editors: It's 512MB RAM *AND* 512MB Flash for (OS) and 4GB microSD for programs,etc.
http://www.google.com/phone/static/en_US-nexusone_tech_specs.html

 

[Shadow703793]

Did any one else note this:

H.263 (encode and decode) MPEG-4 SP (encode and decode) H.264 AVC (decode)

From: http://www.google.com/phone/static/en_US-nexusone_tech_specs.html
I think that's pretty impressive.

 

[acecombat]

[citation][nom]Toms[/nom]and pretty nifty speech to text that includes the ability to add punctuation just by saying "period" or "comma."[/citation]
All good until you need to use the word period...
Translating "I don't want to see you again period!"