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Google's Nexus One Phone Launches
The press conference at the Googleplex is over and Google's Nexus One phone has launched (official Google blog announcement). The NY Times confirms the bare details: manufactured by HTC; $529 unlocked, $179 with 2-year T-Mobile contract; coming to Verizon in the US, and Vodaphone in Europe, in "Spring 2010." The Times notes one desirable feature: "[Google] has also voice-enabled all text boxes in the device, so a user can speak into the device to, for instance, compose an e-mail, rather than type the text of the email." Walt Mossberg points out one limitation: "On the Nexus One, only 190 megabytes of its total 4.5 gigabytes of memory is allowed for storing apps. On the $199 iPhone, nearly all of the 16 gigabytes of memory can be used for apps." No answers yet to the obvious questions: can it tether on T-Mobile? Will it allow VoIP?
i have a 32GB iphone and i range from 2GB to 4GB worth of applications. the GPS apps are 1.5GB since they download all data. google like RIM and Danger are into this cloud thing where you're not allowed to have any data on your device. some of the games are hundreds of MB. on android you can code to store app data on the SD card, but then that means more dev time.
people laugh at the iphone but in the 125,000 apps there are literally thousands of apps for professionals on the go including VMWare management and access to expensive commercial databases to look up data wherever you are. For now Android is a toy while the iphone is well ahead as a tool to get work done