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The newly released Google Nexus One is made by HTC. It has the Android 2.1 Éclair operating system on it, not HTC Sense. If we look at the physical presentation of the phone, we can see that the Nexus One is an 11.5 mm thin, 130 grams weight phone with a 3.7 inch 480 x 800 pixel display and four buttons on the front. There is a 3.5 mm headphone jack on the top and the integrated 5 Megapixel camera with LED flash for high quality photos. When we talk about photography, the Google Nexus One offers an autofocus from 6 cm to infinity, a 2X digital zoom and the user can include location of the photos from the AGPS receiver. The video is captured at 720×480 pixels at 20 frames per second, or depending on the condition the user can get higher frames.
When you power up your Nexus One you can find the weather widget and the forecast on the homescreen, an example of the sort of thoughtful feature you would expect to be included by Google. Another feature is the news feed; you can tap at the news icon and navigate between the news, read them and arrange them thematically.
When you tap on the home button, your applications appear with the feeling of the 3D effect; you can scroll and navigate between the apps. As you tap on the photo gallery, a new improved look of the photo gallery application appears. To view the photos, you just have to tap on them and if you rotate the phone then the accelerometer kicks in. You can view the photos by date and by folders created to keep better track of them. Although the phone is manufactured by HTC, the phone is not multi touch enabled.
A new feature introduced with the Google Nexus One is the text to speech functionality. You have the Google maps included so you can talk to the phone and you have a navigating system launched. This feature can be very useful when you drive and want to write somebody a message for example, you just speak to the phone and it converts your speech to text for you to send.
Socializing becomes easy with the Google Nexus One as you have integrated social network applications included. Web browsing is also fun with the Nexus, despite not supporting multi touch.
There is a Desktop Dock that adds another feature to your Nexus One Smartphone. If you put the phone in the Desktop Dock, the Clock application automatically shows up and offers an additional comfort. At this time you can easily check the local weather and time, look at the photo gallery and watch a slideshow of your photos, or just listen to some of your favourite musicians through the 3.5 mm headset jack, or dim your phone’s display for nighttime use.
The phone supports some of the most popular mobile and wireless bands, being primarily a quad-band GSM/EDGE device with support for 3G through UMTS and HSDPA 7.2 Mbps / HSUPA 2 Mbps. The Nexus One also comes with support for Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR with A2DP.
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