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Google's Nexus One Phone Launches

Posted by kdawson on from the shaking-it-up dept.

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?

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  1. Man, that demo page is slow by smitty777 · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's ironic to me that the company known for such a lean web page has such a huge footprint on their demo page. Sucker hung my computer for nearly 5 minutes.

    --
    "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish"
    Albert Einstein
  2. is it cool to buy electronics unseen? by alen · · Score: 1, Troll

    Google wants $530 for their phone, you can't play with it in a store to see how it is and the website in typical Google fashion has a bare minimum of information. i can see the fanboys buying these, but the general public wants to see what they are buying first.

  3. Re:So what's the difference? by jo42 · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's from GOOGLE! It's got to be good.

    1) Google farts.
    2) Google fanbois inhale deeply...
    3) ...proclaim "Google Is Great!"

    I'm just getting so frickin' sick and tired of Google On The Brain.