Google's new Nexus One smartphone

Google are now in the smartphone business. The Nexus One running on the Google Android system has arrived. 

The phone looks more like the iPhone than any other phone on the market. There is no physical keyboard like the Android-powered Motorola Droid, and the tradeoff is a much slimmer design. The phone is 11.5 mm deep, slightly thinner than the iPhone 3GS at 12.3 mm. It is also slightly lighter than the iPhone 130 grams v. 135 grams). The package comes with the phone, a removable battery, 4 GB Micro SD storage card (expandable to 32 GB), USB charger and microphone headset.

The Nexus one has four functional touch buttons at the bottom of the screen (back, menu, home, search) and a navigation trackball pointing device. It also has physical power and volume controls. But most of your interaction with the phone will be through the gorgeous 3.7 inch 480 x 800 OLED capacitive touchscreen. This is the best mobile phone display on the market today, blowing away the iPhone’s 480 x 320 display. The screen is bright and alive, and an absolute pleasure to use.

The Nexus One will initially only be available to those in the US, Britain, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Apparently battery life sucks. Like really sucks. Makes iPhone's seem good. I'm pretty excited but am seeing mixes reports ....

Really?

According to this chart, it's got 2 hours on the 3GS



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I was surprised by the low storage, but then I guess the Nexus is meant to leverage The Cloud...

Or it could allow for SD Card expansion, which would be nice

Yeah, true. I'd want that.

Nexus One allows SD card expansion

Nexus One :

Capacity

512MB Flash

512MB RAM

4GB Micro SD Card (Expandable to 32 GB)

Aha! Problem solved

TYPING IS GOING TO BE A GREAT IMPROVEMENT

I'm quite convinced the Nexus will be my next phone

Nice