Google has officially launched much awaited Nexus One. After weeks of rumors and leaked specification, pictures and reviews, the search engine giant finally decided to unveil its first cell phone named as Nexus One. For those who don't know, Nexus One is Google's first branded cell phone, it operates on Android 2.1 OS and the hardware of cell phone has been provided by HTC.
Phone announcement was collectively made by Google Nexus One team and HTC hardware development team, the revealed the stories and hard work behind this phone, which they are calling as "Superphone".
The specifications are more or less similar to what we shared a week ago, major highlights of phone are that it's on Android 2.1, It's very thin, Has 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, It has animated backgrounds/wallpapers and many new superb widgets. Detailed specs are mentioned below:
Nexus One Specifications:
| Physical Dimensions | Height 119mm Width: 59.8mm Depth: 11.5mm Weight: 130g with battery; 100g without battery |
| Storage | Flash: 512MB RAM: 512MB SD card: 4GB Micro SD card included (expandable to 32 GB |
| Camera, photos, videos | 5-megapixel camera Mechanical autofocus 2x digital zoom LED flash User can include location of photos from phone’s GPS receiver |
| Cellular & wireless | UMTS Band 1/4/8 (2100/AWS/900) HSDPA 7.2Mbps HSUPA 2Mbps up to 5.76Mbps GMS/EDGE (850/900,1800,1900 MHz) Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n) Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR A2DP stereo Bluetooth |
| Location | AGPS receiver Cell tower and Wi-Fi positioning Digital compass Accelerometer |
| Display | 3.7-inch (diagonal) widescreen, WVGA AMOLED screen |
| External buttons and controls | Physical power key Physical volume up/down key Tricolor, clickable trackball 4 illuminated softkeys (Back, Menu, Home, Search) Haptic feedback Teflon-coated back cover |
| Connectors and sensors | Dock pins 3.5mm, 4-connectors, stereo headset jack Earpiece Speaker Microphone Second microphone for active noise cancellation SIM card slot Micro SD card slot Micro USB port Proximity sensor Light sensor Tricolor charging and notification indicator LED |
| Processor | QUALCOMM QSD 8250, 1GHz |
| Platform | Android mobile technology platform 2.1 |
| 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 |
Google is selling the phone online for $179 with T-Mobile contract and for $529 without a contract. Unlocked Nexus One is available right now for GSM networks. and will be available for CMDA networks in Spring 2010. You will also need a Google account for buying Nexus One, if you are interesting in buying or knowing more about Nexus One, please visit Google.com/Phone.
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