The Nexus One is Google’s much-hyped new smartphone. It is faster, thinner, and cheaper than the iPhone with a bigger screen and more features (among other things).
It’s camera is superb and the 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor make it very zippy, even viewing hi-def videos. Here are the full specs:
Power and battery
Removable 1400 mAH battery
Charges at 480mA from USB, at 980mA from supplied charger
- Talk time
- Up to 10 hours on 2G
Up to 7 hours on 3G - Standby time
- Up to 290 hours on 2G Up to 250 hours on 3G
- Internet use
- Up to 5 hours on 3G
Up to 6.5 hours on Wi-Fi - Video playback
- Up to 7 hours
- Audio playback
- Up to 20 hours
Processor
Qualcomm QSD 8250 1 GHz
Operating system
Android Mobile Technology Platform 2.1 (Eclair)
Capacity
512MB Flash
512MB RAM
4GB Micro SD Card (Expandable to 32 GB)
Location
Assisted global positioning system (AGPS) receiver
Cell tower and Wi-Fi positioning
Digital compass
Accelerometer
Buttons, connectors and controls
Front / Top
[1] Power
[2] 3.5mm stereo headphone jack
[3] Charging and notification indicator
[4] Illuminated capacitive soft keys:
Back, Home, Menu, and Search
[5] Tri-color clickable trackball
Back / Bottom
[6] Camera
[7] Camera flash
[8] Speaker
[9] Dock pin connectors
[10] Micro USB port
[11] Microphone
Left side
[12] Volume Control
Additional features
- Haptic feedback
- Teflon™ coated back
- Second microphone for active noise cancellation
- SIM card slot
- Micro SD slot
- Proximity sensor
- Light sensor
Graphics, video and audio
- Audio decoders
- AAC LC/LTP, HE-AACv1 (AAC+), HE-AACv2 (enhanced AAC+) Mono/Stereo standard bit rates up to 160 kbps and sampling rates from 8 to 48kHz, AMR-NB 4.75 to 12.2 kbps sampled @ 8kHz, AMR-WB 9 rates from 6.60 kbit/s to 23.85 kbit/s sampled @ 16kHz., MP3 Mono/Stereo 8-320Kbps constant (CBR) or variable bit-rate (VBR), MIDI SMF (Type 0 and 1), DLS Version 1 and 2, XMF/Mobile XMF, RTTTL/RTX, OTA, iMelody, Ogg Vorbis, WAVE (8-bit and 16-bit PCM)
- Image
- JPEG (encode and decode), GIF, PNG, BMP
- Video
- H.263 (encode and decode) MPEG-4 SP (encode and decode) H.264 AVC (decode)
- Audio encoders
- AMR-NB 4.75 to 12.2 kbps sampled @ 8kHz
Language support
- Display
- English (U.S), French (France), German, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Korean, Japanese, Russian,
- Keyboard
- English (U.S), French (France), German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil),
As you can see this phone packs more advanced hardware than any phone before it, and with a new-contract price (T-mobile) of $179 and an unlocked price of $529 it’s cheaper than the iPhone as well.
According to the many hands-on reviews, the camera is one of the best available for cellphones and the flash is pretty decent as well. Ars has a good full camera review, and they found it to be one of the best they’ve tested.
They found the Nexus One to be fast and responsive, with the richest feature set of any phone they’ve tested. If you’re looking for the best smart phone available, this is it.
You can pick one up directly through Google here.
via ars full review
