Google Phone Nexus One Specs

The Nexus One features a 3.7in AMOLED display, with a 800×480 resolution. The screen has a 100,000:1 contrast ratio and a response time of 1ms. It has an illuminated trackball which can emit different colors of light based on the type of notification being received.

The phone has two microphones, one on the front and one on the back, to enable noise cancellation to reduce background noise during phone conversations. A standard 3.5 mm headphone jack is also provided.

The Google phone features a 1 GHz Qualcomm 8250 processor, 512 MB of RAM, a 4 GB microSD card, 512 MB of internal Flash storage, a 5MP auto-focus camera with LED flash and digital zoom, GPS receiver, light and proximity sensors, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, and 802.11b/g/n Wifi capabilities. It provides hardware decoding for H.263, H.264 and MPEG-4 video, and is capable of playing MP3, AAC+, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, and MIDI audio, and displaying the JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP image formats.

It has a standard micro USB port rather than the proprietary HTC connector, and the microSD card slot allows expansion up to 32 gigabytes of card storage. Applications can only be installed to the 512MB internal flash memory, of which 190MB are available for that purpose. During unveiling, it was mentioned that Google might eventually lift this restriction after addressing security issues. The phone weighs 130 grams (4.6 oz), with a height of 119 millimetres (4.7 in), a width of 59.8 millimetres (2.35 in), and a depth of 11.5 millimetres (0.45 in). It is powered by a removable 1400 mAh battery, expected to last up to 290 hours on standby, 10 hours talk time, or 5 hours while browsing the internet.

The phone’s antenna covers most major GSM providers worldwide, with the notable exception of the 850 MHz and 1900 MHz UMTS 3G bands used by AT&T, Bell Mobility/ Telus (of Canada), and Rogers (of Canada). The GSM radio frequencies covered are 850, 900, 1800, and 1900 along with UMTS frequency bands 1 (2100 MHz), 4 (1700 MHz), and 8 (900 MHz).

Google Phone Nexus One Specification Table

Manufacturer : HTC (Designed and branded by Google)

Type : Candybar smartphone

Release date : January 5, 2010

Introductory price : $529 unlocked

Operating system ” Android 2.1 (Eclair)

Power : 3.7 V 1400 mAh Rechargeable lithium-ion polymer battery

Audio - 20 hours

Video - 7 hours

Idle - 250 hours

Talk time - 10 hours (2G) or 7 hours (3G)

CPU : 1 GHz Qualcomm QSD 8250 Snapdragon

Storage capacity : Flash memory: 512 MB

microSD (Class 2) slot: 4 GB included, expandable up to 32 GB

Memory : 512 MB DRAM

Display : 480 x 800 px, 3.7 in (94 mm), 252.15ppi, 3:5 aspect ratio, WVGA, AMOLED with 100,000:1 contrast ratio and 1 ms response rate

Input : Capacitive touchscreen display, trackball, headset controls, proximity and ambient light sensors, 3-axis accelerometer, digital compass

Camera : 5.0 megapixel with video (720 x 480 px at 20 fps or higher), geotagging, LED flash and auto focus

Connectivity : Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n), Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, Micro-USB, A-GPS

Quad band : GSM 850 900 1800 1900 MHz GPRS/EDGE and Tri band UMTS 900 1700 2100 MHz HSDPA/HSUPA

Online services : Android Market

Dimensions : 119 mm (4.7 in) (h), 59.8 mm (2.35 in) (w), 11.5 mm (0.45 in) (d)

Weight 130 g (4.6 oz) with battery, 100 g (3.5 oz) without battery

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What do experts say about Google Phone, Nexus One?

“I like very much the way social-networking information, including status messages, is integrated into the contacts app. One tap on a person’s picture in Contacts lets you quickly choose whether to call, email or message her, or map her address—all without opening the contact card itself. I also liked the pictures and videos I was able to take with the five-megapixel camera and flash, which I preferred to my iPhone’s camera. You can even view a photo slideshow or listen to music when the phone is in the optional desktop dock.”
Walt Mossberg, All Things Digital

Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly Radar

“Android, including the new 2.1 version, isn’t as smooth as the iPhone. One needs to make more of an effort on the Google Phone to get things done. I guess you can blame that on the lack of multitouch features. Now don’t get me wrong — Android 2.1 running on Nexus One is pretty darn good. Just not as good as an iPhone. It feels somehow disjointed – much like all the other Android phones. When you install non-Google applications, they don’t quite have the tight integration of Google-based apps. Of course, that’s the downside of an open platform, one not entirely controlled by a single entity.”
Om Malik, GigaOM

“Finally, the Nexus just doesn’t attain the iPhone’s fit and finish. The buttons under the screen (Back, Menu, Home, Search) are balky, often ignoring your finger-presses completely. One of the animated wallpapers freezes the phone with a message that says: “Sorry! The application Android Live Wallpapers has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.” (Note to Google: I did. The same thing happened.) But maybe it doesn’t matter if the Nexus One isn’t nirvana. Google says it’s only the first Google phone of many, with one store to sell them all.”
David Pogue, New York Times

“The noise cancellation feature is particularly useful. The device has a second microphone on the back that monitors inbound noise and automatically cancels it out (anyone who’s used Bose noise cancellation headphones on a long flight will appreciate this). It does a great job of canceling out machinery and wind noise on the other end of the call. In my testing, call recipients noticed a substantial increase in call quality on this phone v. either the Droid of the iPhone. Look for other phones to quickly add this feature, it’s a must have.”
Michael Arrington, TechCrunch

Google Phone Launched. Google launches the Nexus One phone, as usual India might have to wait a while.

Google has unveiled its new Nexus One smartphone, the culmination of collaboration with HTC. the Google Phone, Nexus One is very thin. Nexus One handsets are no thicker than pencils and no heavier than keychain Swiss Army knives. It is a great marriage of form and function. The handsets feature new speech command capabilities that allow users to speak emails, text messages or Internet search queries. It can provide turn-by-turn spoken driving directions from a Google mapping program. The phone will be sold online in the US for $529 (Rs 24,000 approx) unlocked , without ties to a telecom carrier.

The phone as of now will only be available to buyers in Singapore, Hong Kong, Britain and the United States.
As far as India, Google Phone, Nexus One will not be launched for some time.

Like iPhones, Nexus One devices feature accelerometer capabilities allowing images or games on handsets to be controlled with twists or turns.

Google also has an online Android Marketplace stocked with about 20,000 functional or hip applications for phones running their software.



Apple iPhone:This is probably the most popular touchscreen phone in the market today. Apple iphone has opened up the market for touchscreen phones and almost all mobile manufacturers are rushing to deliver touch screen mobile phones. Apple iPhone touchscreen mobile phone is the extension to the very popular ipod music player that now has revolutionised mobile usage. Millions of iPhones are sold worldwide and majority of the mobile internet in the US is originating from the iphone. More on iPhone.

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 HTC Diamond   HTC MAX 4G

HTC Touch Diamond and HTC MAX 4G:The HTC Touch Diamond is a very popular touchscreen mobile phone from this Chinese Mobile manufacturer. HTC Diamond runs Windows Mobiles Mobile OS and is 110 gms. You can practically save unlimited amount of phone numbers but has no additional card slot. Has 2.8 VGA screen, WiFi, 3G and mini-USB. The camera on the phone is 3.15 MP and a talk time of 5 hours and 30 mins. The Touch Diamond also has an orientation sensor that automatically switches the phone output according to the orientation of the phone just like the iPhone. Compared to the HTC Diamond the HTC MAX 4G is abit heavier at 151 gms. It has a card slot for a micro SD card with practically unlimited size phonebook and 8 GB available memory. Has WiFi, WiMax, Bluetooth, miniUSB and a 5 MP camera, autofocus, video, geo-tagging, secondary VGA videocall camera. HTC Max 4G touchscreen Mobile Phone also has Mobile WiMAX 2,5-2.7 GHz, built-in GPS receiver, Stereo FM radio, MP3/MPEG-4 player, Pocket Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, OneNote and PDF viewer), Voice memo, Built-in handsfree. The touchscreen mobile phone has talk time Up to 7 hours. The HTC Max 4G is set to launch worldwide in November 2008.

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LG Prada               LG Incite

LG Prada II and LG Incite:LG Prada II features 3G connectivity, a QWERTY keyboard, a 3 inch 400×240 px TFT touchscreen and a 5 megapixel camera. LG Prada also has a front facing camera, Wi-Fi connectivity, USB 2.0, Bluetooth, FM-Radio, and a microSDHC memory slot. LG Incite launched worldwide in October 2008, Weight of the touch screen phone is 119 g, TFT touchscreen, microSD up to 16GB, Photocall, MP3, WLAN, Wi-Fi, USB, Bluetooth, WAP, Built-in GPS, built in Camera of 3.15 MP, video, FM Radio, Pocket Office (MS Word, MS Excel, OneNote, PDF and MS PowerPoint viewer), MPEG4/H.263/H.264 player, MP3 player, Organiser and talk time 8 hours.

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   Samsung Pixon    Samsung Eternity

Samsung Instinct, Samsung i770 Saga, Samsung Pixon and Samsung A867 Eternity:Samsung Instinct is a 3G Samsung touch screen mobile phone features a 2 Megapixel camera, stereo bluetooth, audible caller ID, voice dialing commands and a full HTML web browser. This Samsung Instinct also has a media player that displays album art, Radio and TV support, integrated Microsoft Live Search and GPS. It supports personal and corporate email access, visual voicemail and has a 262K color 3.1 inch screen with 2GB of memory. This Samsung mobile phone weighs 124.7 grams. Samsung has recently added 3 new Touchscreen Phones to their stable. These phones are Samsung i770 Saga, Samsung Pixonand Samsung A867 Eternity. Samsung i770 is a 130 gm CDMA phone with a QWERTY keyboard. Samsung M8800 Pixonfeatures Quad-band GSM, a 3.2-inch touchscreen display, GPS receiver, landscape virtual QWERTY keyboard, handwriting recognition, FM radio, microSD card slot, Bluetooth. The big feature of this touchscreen phone is a 8 megapixel camera that includes auto-focus, face recognition with smile and blink detection. The Samsung A867 TouchScreen Phone is a GSM phone that weighs 110 gms and 3.15 mega pixel camera.

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  Nokia 5800 Picture

Nokia 5800:The Nokia Tube 5800 is a touchscreen phone with a 3.1 Megapixel camera. The Nokia 5800 is similar in design as the iPhone. It has a TV-Out port for wide-screen viewing, it has quad band and 3G capabilities, Bluetooth, WiFi and GPS built in to the phone. More on Nokia 5800.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia:The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 is a touchscreen phone that has created a lot of buzz. The Sony Xperia measures 109 x 52.5 x 16.5 mm and weighs 145g. It is running the Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system. It has a Qualcomm 7200 CPU running at 528Mhz, 128MB of RAM, 3 inch 800×480 touchscreen, a 3.2 megapixel camera, slide QWERTY keyboard, microSD slot and Bluetooth. It also has Wifi.

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Nokia’s touch screen phone is finally in the preview stage. The 5800 XpressMusic is all set to launch soon as Nokia’s challenge to Google’s phone and Apple iPhone. Its called or nicknamed the Tube and the device has a number of typical Nokia stuff as is visible on the various videos on YouTube.

The LCD is 640 x 360. The dull screen surface cuts down on glare, but casual users often prefer glossy screens for watching visual stuff like images and video. We hear that the speaker is very loud. It’s not the clearest thing in the world, but if you want to share a song or something with a friend, they’ll certainly hear it loud and clear. The 3.2 megapixel camera is getting good reviews and is said to focus well and takes great pictures. It also had things like GPS, WiFi and a side-loading microSD slot (there will be a free 8GB card hopefully). It is wrapped up into an elongated, chubby package, hence the Tube. Its probably too big to put in the pocket of a tight pant but still a nice size. It will also come with apps like Nokia Maps.

It’s a S60 series phone, which is so popular in India and from the look of it you will not be disappointed. Nokia’s seems to have done enough to turn the traditional interface into touchable one, nicely sized icons, adding finger-friendly buttons unlike the iPhone. What Nokia probably hasn’t quite figured out is consistency, requiring double taps in some places, single taps in others. It is said that, scrolling through most lists requires dragging a scroll bar, pulling down as the list flies up, but the browser has touch and drag scrolling. But then the advantage is that most of us are using some S60 phone and we will get used to it quickly.

What’s seems to be new is a touch-sensitive button above the screen that drops down the Media Bar for access to music, movies, photos, the browser and sharing. There’s also a new home screen with a “Fav Four” of sorts across the top and little else. Tap and you can get a quick look at recent calls, messages and even related RSS feeds. Luckily, the traditionally familiar S60 home screen is also available.

From the videos it is clear that you can input by handwriting, mini QWERTY keyboard, full screen QWERTY and alphanumeric keypad. The first two can be used thru a stylus-based tap. The phone looks too narrow to work well with QWERTY in portrait and has to be used in landscape mode only. Creating or inputting SMS in our SMS crazy country could be a nightmare as I discovered while using the iPhone also.

It doesn’t seem that the touchable browser is a step up over existing WebKit implementations on Nokia’s other handsets. The tap to zoom function seems slow and unreliable. Reviews of the browsing experience are probably not as good as the iPhone of the Google Phone. Still, there’s no doubting the advantages of viewing the web on a 640 x 360 LCD.

Games, Movies and Music seem to be this phone’s killer apps. With Nokia’s super marketing muscle in India they will surely make this a big story.

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1. How to buy an iPhone in India?

iPhones are still not available through the official channel as yet. It is expected that they will be available in India sometime around September. Airtel and Vodafone are currently doing advance booking for the iPhone.

However, you can buy an ‘unlocked’ iPhone from you friendly neighbourhood mobile seller very easily. You could try at Alpha in Irla or try locally in Bandra or Santacruz and im sure you will easily get it. Also you fond them on some popular online shops like Ebay and Rediff.

2. Will an unlocked iPhone you bought in US or UK work here?

Yes, phones that are unlocked work well in India on all GSM networks. This means that they will work on Airtel, Vodafone, BPL and MTNL in Mumbai but wont work with Tata and Reliance. I have also heard that some features may not work if the unlocking is not perfect but on the whole they work fairly well.

3. What is the price of iPhone in India?

There are 2 models in the market today. There is an 8 GB model which is available at around Rs 21,000 – 25,000 and then there is the 16 GB model that is available at around Rs 32,000.

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