PICTURED: The Google Phone - Nexus One
This past weekend the web has been all a chitter-chatter about the Google phone. You know, the one Google swore didn't exist when "sources" kept whispering secrets to the press?
Dubbed the Nexus One, and looking kind of similar to pretty much every other HTC handset we've seen as of late, the Google phone is said to be launching next month.
Word of the device (and indeed the first pictures) did the rounds on Twitter following a messages from Google employees who claimed they had all been given the device during a staff meeting. "Like an iPhone on beautifying steroids," Engadget quotes one message as saying. "ZOMG we had fireworks and we all got the new Google phone. It's beautiful," reads another.
The Nexus One boasts a trackball, has no physical keyboard, is supposedly a little thinner than the iPhone and is pegged for a January launch. Engadget reports that the device is running Android 2.1 and is AT&T-ready. However, Peter Kafka over at MediaMemo says that so far, "only T-Mobile has agreed to actively help push the phone via distribution channels and support infrastructure."
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I'm just curious to see what android 2.1 offers over 2.0
i hope they dont do one of those exclusive vendor things like apple did... but then again it might screw verizon more--so that would make me happy.
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Yummy. . .but at what cost? I understand that Google will sell directly to the public, and not necessarily via service providers, but at what cost? AND if AT&T gets their hands on it -- or any other service provider for that matter -- I suspect they'll eviscerate many of the cool features and force users to go directly to their own app website (e.g., AT&T Media Net) rather than to any main menu or to have the option of programming their phone any way they want, and esp. menus.
Google has enough clout that they should require in their contract with service providers that NO functions are disabled, else it would hurt Google's image as a phone manufacturer.
Viva Google. . .go get 'em!
I'll hold out for Nexus Six.
"Check the device below and let us know what you think!"
Um, I think it's a picture? so what? let me see specs and I'll let you know what I think rofl
Maybe they should stop releasing new cell phones in China.
Blackberry on the table, google-phone in the hand, and an iphone taking the picture
kinda makes the G1 i bought last year look like a turd. bummer.
thinner than the iphone? well...consumers will just have to worry even more about cracking it in their pocket. At least it wont be blowing up...hopefully.
probably made by htc for google...
Hmmmm... It looks just like an Iph..... nevermind. It seems like every PDA phone coming out looks that way. I'm interested in this "direct sale to the public" aspect. Could there really be a phone that is not totally watered down due to junk carrier software and other such limitations?
Is this a variant of the HD2? I heard on another website that it will be running a Snapdragon processor. Call me excited!
are you effing kidding!!!!!!! att again!!!!! when will these good phones come out for effing verizon!!!! making a phone for att is like saying "NEW GREAT PHONES WITH AWESOME FEATURES YOU CANT USE BECAUSE THERES NO SERVICE!!!!" mother eff
I can almost guarantee the reason they are going ATT and Tmobile is GSM. Something that Verizon or Sprint don't use.
I hope this does come to AT&T cause I do not want an iphone.
I am the Nexus One. I want more life fucker, I ain't done yet.
Can they turn my PSPgo into a phone yet? Just gimme 3g and a sim card and I'll happily be on my way. =D
Too many fragile phones out there... I want something useful AND durable.