subject: A Review Of The Google Nexus One Mobile Phone [print this page] Author: Anothony Greek Author: Anothony Greek
The term Nexus is a link or way of connecting different things together as one; its also can mean the centre of something You may recognize the word Nexus before in a well known Ridley Scott film. So the first significant mobile event of the new decade: the launch of Google's initial Android phone - the eagerly awaited Nexus One - pieces together almost all that is great and good in the mobile device world. This is undoubtedly a superb piece of engineering.
In terms of design, the Google Nexus One is very sleek and fits nicely into the palm of your hand or your pocket without weighing you down. Weight just 130g, the Google mobile phone is slimmer, narrower and lighter than the Apple iPhone and the Motorola Milestone.
The Google Nexus One mobile phone, nicely fits the bill for what you would expect from a 2010 smartphone. Not least is the fantastic 3.7 inch widescreen, AMOLED screen, delivering 720480 pixels resolution. Arguably crisper and clearer than any other display on the market, it delivers touchscreen responsiveness definitely in the ballpark of the iPhone and, moreover, it is fast.
The combination of Android 2.1 sitting above a Snapdragon CPU clocked at 1GHz with 512Mb RAM and ROM really does enable you to zap through opening up applications and then moving between them, even on EDGE, where 3G is unavailable.
Its multimedia credentials, are quietly competent rather than superb - such as a 5 megapixel camera that comes with autofocus with a LED built in flash and its 32GB memory card capacity. A really innovative feature on the Nexus One is a app that has been named Google Goggles this applocation tries to recognize what is in a photo. At the moment Google Goggles is able to recognize contact information, artwork, wine, logos, place and books and Google is working on this app so it will evetually be able to recognise a few more.
A lively little feature that has certainly captured the blogosphere's attention is what are called "live wallpapers", already featured on Motorola's Droid. The Google Nexus One has a choice of 10 such animated images that can evolve throughout the day. Other more useful features and functions on the Google Nexus One include, a proximity sensor - this will avoid you accidently pressing buttons when the phone is up against your ear and a highly effective speakerphone.
Where the Google Nexus One mobile phone really standsout, is in what could be called its charisma - if it could walk into a crowded room, heads would most definitely turn. The Google Nexus One comes in a substance that is Teflon coated and has been classed as being as soft and rubbery.
For the time being, the Google Nexus One is in pole position for 2010. We will have to wait and see what Samsung's new Bada operating system will have to offer later in the year. So 2010 looks set to be, if not exactly a space odyssey, then a fun filled journey though all that is faster, snappier and wow-ier in the mobile device world.About the Author:
